Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!

Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <100l2ks$2ubig$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/21/25 12:55 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

In article <100kria$2r2j0$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:

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A national media conglomerate[1] put out a summer reading list, aided by
AI. But...
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"In fact, only the last five of the 15 novels on the list are real."
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chicago-sun-times-ai-reading-list/
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Easiest, or... hardest?

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I see your point, but optimist that I am, I'm gonna stick to "easiest".
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For example:
- Since only 5 of them actually exist, you're done when you read those
5. If you want to read more than 5 books, you can choose whatever you
want to read for book 6 and beyond.
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- If you've been assigned this list for the summer[1], any reports you
write for the 10 nonexistent ones will not have content mistakes![2]
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Tony
[1] Back in the day, at least, some places used
national/pre-packaged/external lists to assign summer reading - for
example, say, lists that were provided by national media conglomerates.
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[2] Though of course, everything else teachers evaluate is still fair game.

  Maybe a better list would be
  The Necronomicon

Perhaps "Unaussprechlichen Kulten" or "De Vermis Mysteriis" could substitute.  Readers are less likely to be eaten.
Besides, it's fun to say "Unaussprechlichen".

  The Grasshopper Lies Heavy

I was just thinking that I'd like to read that.
William Hyde