Subject: Authors' Grocery Lists
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Posted on: 2013-08-02 05:56:00 UTC

Inspired by this Dork Tower, I can't help but wonder what other authors' grocery lists look like. Here's a few that VM and I put together:

Tom Clancy:
Straightforward, but good. You could swear that the handwriting changes on every one of them, though...

J.R.R. Tolkien:
The list is written in three languages that he invented for the purpose. Once you get through the hundreds of pages of appendixes and supporting material, though, even a simple cantaloupe holds unfathomably deep meaning.

George R.R. Martin
The list looks wrong. While digging out your phone to call home and check, you drop the eggs. When you get to the correct aisle, it's already sold out. Your phone's battery dies. You get run over by a car on the way home.

Neal Stephenson
It's the size of a phone book. While you're at the grocery store until well after their closing time, by the time you're done, you understand the computerization of industrial agriculture, Sumerian mythology, and the evolution of the common cold.

Corey Doctorow
Corey leaves grocery lists lying around. You find yourself buying groceries in the hopes that he'll write more of them.

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