Finished!
I finished all the things I set out to finish today. I would tell you all three but that would be seriously boring for me to write and therefore for you to read. QED. (I didn't really prove anything, but my theorem is when anybody says QED no matter how many nobel-fucking-peace prizes they've won then that is the time to suspect that they have not in fact just proven their point. It's a set of letters just to confuse the people who are almost understanding them. They drag not only Latin, but a Latin acronym into the mix. That'll fool 'em for sure!)
I will mention that I really enjoyed the book The Bloodbaths by Steve Libbey. Steve and I went to high school together. That makes it sound like we walked or travelled in some way to school together, but we didn't. I don't even know where he lived back then. I'm pretty sure he took the bus in the early years and likely drove at least some in the later years much like I did when I would drive my mother to work so I could borrow her car and drive my own sorry ass to school. Where I would then entice John Hibberd to ditch the rest of school after lunch by using the clever Spanish phrase, "Tengo un coche," which to me, academically, meant nothing, but apparently was dreadfully bad for Mr. Hibbard who flunked out because of it. (Consider this meager blog post an apology, John.)
I have, as usual, digressed. Steve's book is a great piece of fiction. Much fighting and hot chicks. What else could you ask for? Lions? Rented Goats? and had a very large "I don't want to put it down" rating. I believe the PDR (Put it Down Rating) was at least 50% maybe a 55%. You can calculate this by taking the page you are on when you say to yourself (or a close family member), "fuck I don't want to put this down" and subtract that number from the total number of pages in the book. This is, of course, the number of pages you have left. Divide that number by the total number of pages in the book and multiply by 100% (thus giving you a percentage of how much book you have left). If you've rated a book around 3% then it's likely a lemmejustfinishthisbeforeweturnthelightout while reading. Not so good.
If you drop everything and just keep reading from 54% or so then the book rocks. This is how I measure a books worth. Therefore this book is good. QED. But don't take my word for it. Read it yourself.
I will mention that I really enjoyed the book The Bloodbaths by Steve Libbey. Steve and I went to high school together. That makes it sound like we walked or travelled in some way to school together, but we didn't. I don't even know where he lived back then. I'm pretty sure he took the bus in the early years and likely drove at least some in the later years much like I did when I would drive my mother to work so I could borrow her car and drive my own sorry ass to school. Where I would then entice John Hibberd to ditch the rest of school after lunch by using the clever Spanish phrase, "Tengo un coche," which to me, academically, meant nothing, but apparently was dreadfully bad for Mr. Hibbard who flunked out because of it. (Consider this meager blog post an apology, John.)
I have, as usual, digressed. Steve's book is a great piece of fiction. Much fighting and hot chicks. What else could you ask for? Lions? Rented Goats? and had a very large "I don't want to put it down" rating. I believe the PDR (Put it Down Rating) was at least 50% maybe a 55%. You can calculate this by taking the page you are on when you say to yourself (or a close family member), "fuck I don't want to put this down" and subtract that number from the total number of pages in the book. This is, of course, the number of pages you have left. Divide that number by the total number of pages in the book and multiply by 100% (thus giving you a percentage of how much book you have left). If you've rated a book around 3% then it's likely a lemmejustfinishthisbeforeweturnthelightout while reading. Not so good.
If you drop everything and just keep reading from 54% or so then the book rocks. This is how I measure a books worth. Therefore this book is good. QED. But don't take my word for it. Read it yourself.
posted by J.R. at 3:41 PM
1 Comments:
oooo I am totally into the PDR now, I'm going to be carrying my calculator around, constantly calculating PDR. oh I mean except for the fact that there's no one here to interrupt me. but I'll come up with something else to replace that bit.
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