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Take the Cannoli
Howard Zinn:
People's History of the U.S.

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Thursday, July 08, 2004

For the love of little green apples

A couple's guide to sharing vacation reading from The Guardian includes this oh-so-precious quote: There are many books that he might like but which you [the woman] definitely won't, and must therefore be banned: anything by Paul Auster; sci-fi by Philip K Dick; anything involving Nearly Falling Off a Mountain; all 'cyber-punk' (whatever that is)...

Yay! Girls don't like science fiction! Boys don't like mystery novels! Girls like romance and the color pink! Boys like adventure and being dirty! Huzzah for the reinforcement of gender stereotypes! Huzzah!

Neuromancer, for what it's worth, is one of my all-time favorite vacation reads, beaten only by Ender's Game.

How is crap like this still published?

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