April Books 17) Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm, by Bill Willingham

Posted on by

An excellent second volume in this series of fairytale characters in today’s New York, featuring Goldilocks as revolutionary leader exploiting dissension among the Three Little Pigs and between Snow White and Rose Red. I shall get more of these.

One thought on “April Books 17) Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm, by Bill Willingham”

  1. The Facebook link has an interesting central point, but unfortunately the writer appears to be a complete idiot.

    He suggests that:

    1) People will realise they are stupid for buying virtual goods. Not only is this an insult to anyone (like me) who does, but I see no sign, after more than a decade of virtual goods sales, that they’re going away.
    2) He refers to The Sims as one of the “”flush your money down the toilet” fads of the last 10 years”. That would be The Sims, EA’s continuing best-earning IP. I’ll cheerfully take any worthless, faddy share he has in The Sims’ earning potential off his hands…
    3) People care overly much about who owns the rights to the content they create. A decade of digital rights activism shows this just doesn’t seem to be true.
    4) There’s no way to have a social network that includes both kids and their parents. Citation needed – there’s no evidence of this.
    5) He assumes that kids born in the 1990s have a vastly superior knowledge of Internet technology to older generations. Again, there’s no evidence of this. They USE the Internet more, yes, but there’s no automatic ability to choose a web hosting plan or configure WordPress gained by having a birth date after 1991.
    6) “Have you seen what Gmail looks like these days? There’s not a centimeter of the page that isn’t covered with advertisements of some kind. But I can’t think of a single one I’ve ever noticed or clicked. ” – This is just total rubbish. I have Gmail open right now, and there’s one, small, single-line advert in it. And as to his point that he doesn’t click on ads and therefore no-one else does either – I’m currently making a reasonably significant amount of money doing just what he says doesn’t pay.

    The writer appears to have mistaken a number of bees in his bonnet for widespread social trends. That’s probably not a good tendancy in an investment advisor.

Comments are closed.