Ah, fair enough, and each to their own - and to be fair, millions of others apparently liked it too, so maybe I should have kept going! 😁

Exactly. And I’m not being a book snob here, I’ve read plenty of books that weren’t the height of intellectualism. But it’s so BAD… 😁

No worries, easily done. I meant to say before, I also really like the Crucible - something we studied at school, and yet I still liked it! 😁

Of books I’ve completed, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Read it at school, hated it (as well as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D’Urbervilles) - full of ridiculous coincidences. And also utterly miserable to boot.

I started reading The Da Vinci Code, but gave up after the very first page.

Possibly showing my ignorance here, but The Crucible is by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter is by Nathaniel Hawthorne - did either of them write a work with the other title as well? I can’t find anything to suggest they did, but I might be missing something.

Oh really? That’s cool, thanks for the info. Language is so fascinating 👍

Yeah, I was thinking I might. I ly thing is, I haven’t got all the books, nor do I have a website on which to host such a list. However I might still have a go 👍

Meant to say in my Nero Wolfe comment - there’s a Lemmy community for interesting words at !wotd@lemmy.world - it’s not very busy, but still.

Yeah, I’d say so. Maybe something like “Take it easy” would fit better.

I’m currently reading through all of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries, and one fun feature is that he almost always includes one or more very obscure words. It’s a nice little thing to look out for.

In the one I’m currently reading it’s, “peculate,” meaning to embezzle or steal money. Others include:

• Plerophory - Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion
• Apodictically - From apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute
• Usufruct - The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another’s property short of the destruction or waste of its substance
• Acarpous - Not producing fruit; sterile; barren
• Yclept - By the name of
• Eruction - A belch or burp

I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, “The unfamiliar word,” if you want to find more.

There used to be a Scottish football ⚽ player called Kevin Twaddle. Always amused me.

Would “Have a good one” maybe serve that purpose? It’s not exactly the same, but similar sentiment.

David Lynch had apparently planned 2 further Twin Peaks films to follow from 1992’s Fire Walk With Me. Unfortunately the negative reaction that film got at the time put paid to any chance of them being made, even after the film’s fully deserved re-evaluation and recognition as one of his finest pieces of work.

Season 3 of Twin Peaks probably touched on some of the themes that perhaps would have been in those movies, but damn I’d love to see what they might have been if they’d been made right then.

Funny, my first thought was that this would be much easier to answer by accident! Since it only requires a tap and not a swipe, it seems to me like a pocket answer or rejection would be a lot more likely to happen without the phone owner even knowing.

Thanks 👍

Plus, nobody tells a Middle Earth eagle what to do.

Only subjectively though. I love many sports and find many others pretty boring. Fans of those would disagree, of course.

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