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I'm getting a vaguely bell-like ringing sound in response to the character named "Mouse," but the thumbnail summaries I'm seeing don't seem quite right. Knowing that she's weakest in modern settings tells me whatever I read probably wasn't near her best--on the other hand, it's the horror...

It was something set in the present-day Appalachians, and I just could not get past the way the main character's mobile phone just conveniently kept implausibly not working, though I don't remember the rest of it being particularly good. It was definitely under the T Kingfisher name. Then...

I see T Kingfisher mentioned enough--and on library and bookstore shelves enough--that I remember which book of hers I read and found laughably bad, so I could ask if it was some nadir in her writing. Alas, I do not remember the title.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a thing.

Arguably this hobby was founded by such people.

Seems as though any of those could be enjoyable, and "best" is likely to be very much a personal preference.

Well, that seems as though it could be ... interesting. I hope it's at least relatively stable ...

It's taking long enough that I have to think they might feel it's a feature.

Yes.

Joe Hill's King Sorrow is long and grim and very good. Vaguely downbeat around the ending, even.

I was assigned Gatsby as part of a creative writing class, so the focus was probably different than in a purer literature class, and I read The Catcher in the Rye after I dropped out of college. I should reread the latter, but I enjoyed it a good deal more than I think most of the people who are...

My own recent experiences with rereading things from my distant past were distinctly mixed. I read Something Wicked This Way Comes in high school or college or thereabouts, and I probably was too close to the age of the mains to put aside the "looking down on the kids" thing, and I was nowhere...

I might call those opinions "underinformed" instead of "idiosyncratic," but I'm not inclined to argue hard about it.

I suspect A) at least some people are making descriptivist/prescriptivist noises and B) that's not exactly (or maybe even at all) what's really going on. (What's really going on is more like something out of Carroll, probably.)