Wait. This post is entitled ‘Maximum Summer Nerdery’, not ‘Maximum Summer Ass-holery’. I can’t believe the sense of entitlement on display here. First ria, now you. I know, you can claim you were referring to the metaphorical fireworks that might start here. Choose your words carefully, or you’ll end up starting some yourself. For crying out loud, it’s the Fourth of July! Relax. Get outside. Watch the real fireworks.

And Anna, please, you relax too, and take your time over this one. You just wrote such a powerful post yesterday. So even if it’s tomorrow that this next one comes out, or even later in the weekend, don’t sweat it, we’ll be fine.

I second the poor writing bit, but Mehta is a very good observer/transcriber of human nature and interactions. Hints of Proust, although he doesn’t go on for pages about a single theme.

OMG.

I think I’m in nerd heaven

As for the overprepared ones all ready to go with their tabbed copies of Section 1 to read (when? today? tomorrow? now?)…that just makes it brown nerd heaven.

ria, you might have missed the following comment from me:

The post about Part I goes up Wednesday. Please don’t confuse (and discourage) people.

As well as this portion of the post:

On July 2 4th, I’ll put up a post about part one of Maximum City, and then you can each chime in with your thoughts on what we’ve just read. We’ll finish the two remaining sections by the week after, by July 9. It’s roughly the same number of pages, per week.

At some point today, a new post will go up. Discussion won’t occur here, on this thread.

For Paper Moon, all is forgiven for the O’Neals.

Princess Bride the book is actually quite funny, but the movie follows it closely. I didn’t feel like I lost/gained anything by watching the movie instead of reading the book. It’s kind of in that category of children’s novels that have enough double-talk that it appeals to children and adults (a la Wizard of Oz or Peter Pan).