Twentington
Since: Apr, 2009
Oct 7th 2013 at 3:44:26 PM
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Removed this example because I agree with whoever thought it was a joke:
- In the 2013 version of Eat This Not That, one sentence in the introduction of the supermarket section said "Planning a shopping trip is a chore, what with the list and unpacking all of the bags and the kids hanging out of the cart trying to snag a box of anything decorated with Dora, Diego, SpongeBob, Jillian Michaels, or other characters." The last part of the sentence is wrong: first off, Jillian Michaels isn't known by many kids because she is on The Biggest Loser, a show that's not intended for kids. Second, she is a real person
- That sounds distinctly like it was intended as a joke.
I'm not entirely clear about The Half-Blood Prince entry saying the review complains that "the book 'makes no mention of things such as computers or TVs' (of course it doesn't, for the same reason that The Lord of the Rings doesn't)." LOTR doesn't mention such things because it's set in a secondary world/distant past where such things didn't exist (and also because it was written in the forties, when even science fiction didn't really believe in computers). Half-Blood Prince is set in a Like Reality, Unless Noted world in the nineties. It makes sense that computers and TV aren't mentioned because the wizarding world avoids muggle technology, but that's not the same reason they aren't mentioned in LOTR.
Edited by DaibhidC