“a problematic character”

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1. See, this type of thing is why I write these days instead of reading. This retard in the forward to the 75th Anniversary Edition is calling Winston Smith ‘problematic’ and they put trigger warnings on the book.

   Reminder, that was not a f-ing Twitter post by some rando. That’s the publisher’s approved forward on a classic book. One of the most famous books there is, in truth. Try to imagine the lunacy that rules the publishing company day-to-day. They find salt problematic. Too white, you know.

   And that is why there is nothing to read at the book store, my friends. Those guys.

   Go read my books instead. Available at my blog, link in my name there. They are massively, wildly problematic. Giant tanks, huge guns, aliens, robot girlfriends, and some very satisfying explosions. I’m sure the weenies who wrote the trigger warning for 1984 would have the vapors, possibly a stroke. You’ll love it.

   1. Now see, if you had a link to ANYONE but the A place. You would have a buyer for all three when I could afford it.

      BTW, they look AWESOME!!

      1. Many thanks for the encouraging words, good sir.

         As to the “publisher” as it were, the Big A is quite literally the only game in town. If not for the Big A, none of my work would ever see the light of day, because 1984 has a trigger warning. I don’t love the way they do things, and I don’t love being waaaaay down the stack at 1.5 millionth out of five million or whatever it is today, but at least you can buy one.

         Additionally, I now have audio books! Courtesy of the Big A spending cubic gigabucks on LLMs, five of my six books are now read aloud by the sexy British lady AI voice.

         If you want a taster the short story Alice Haddison’s Busy Day is $0.99 US, or $1.35 Canuckistan rasbuckniks. Alice kicks some zombie @ss.

         1. Heh, GOOD for the big A on that LLM bill. I have a British dude reading too me on my phone currently. Free. Offline.

            My problem on A is I can’t read their format of Ebooks and will NOT own anything kindle related. You have a link for simple epub, I’m ALL over that dude!

2. Make Orwell fiction again.

3. The Lone Ranger should have a trigger warning!

   1. Au Quebec, s’arrive Tantôt.

      1. Don’t sign up for cancer treatment if you’re not chemo savvy!

4. I think it’s great and this both makes me laugh and think what happens when these folks blow their wad on university and have to “settle for working in the trades”, both telling and confirming of what’s happened to society in these past couple of decades.

   *note, laughing AT them, not WITH them…

5. A Trigger Warning about the objectives of the Deep State apparatchiks whose prime objective in life is to turn the world into one resembling 1984?!

   1. And more importantly, keep you from noticing.

6. The idea was good..Both 1984 and all works of Monty Python require a cautionary foreword…
   “Caution,this is not an instruction manual”.
   For all the humorless nags and scolds seeking to control …everything and everyone.

7. Wait. Didn’t Winston have a raging, sexual love affair with Julia? Despite the State declaring all such sexual relationships were forbidden because they wanted the populace sexually frustrated and hence more receptive to forever wars? Ohhhhh … so Winston was misogynistic toward The State. Or … having consensual sex with a woman is considered “rape” by womyn?

   Wasn’t the leftists motto … “Make Love not War” not so long ago? Now they’re all-in on unwinnable Ukraine wars … and Gay ewwwwww sex.

   Unbelievable. My reaction is the same as Matt’s …