Tuesday, 27 March 2012

The Holy Apartheid Lesbian Hunger Games and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Despite the fact that the mantra ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’ has been drilled into everyone since birth, we still do. Frankly, it’s a stupid phrase, saying that to judge a book, we have to read it in its entirety, meaning that to know what the best books are, we have to have read all of them. That would take loads of books, as there are 129,864,880 books in the world (well at least according to http://www.fastcompany.com/1678254/how-many-books-are-there-in-the-world, and I don’t know why I bothered finding out when I could’ve just made one up. Like you could prove me wrong). Why not just decide what the best books are as the ones with the prettiest pictures on the front?

I have noticed a similar pattern happening with the hits on this blog, with the most hits being on the posts with the most interesting titles. The top 3 have been;

  1. KONY 2012. 156 views. It was topical, back when everybody cared. Come to think of it, that went pretty quickly.
  2. I am an idiot. 127 views. Presumably because people already had suspicions that I am an idiot, and wanted it confirming.
  3. Sexual Bucket List. 123 views. Because you are all perverts.

In my opinions the best posts, ‘Stereotypicality’ (69 veiws) and ‘I have been warned’ (71 veiws) haven’t had nearly as many views simply because the titles haven’t been eye-catching.

Therefore, for this post, I have gone the opposite way, and gone all out for the title that will attract the most people, and then just blogged about what’s ended up on the page after I’ve mindlessly typed for a while. As far as I’m aware, the quality of the piece will bear no effect on the popularity, and given that my ego now almost entirely rests on the number of hits this blog gets, I thought I’d go for it.

I have sorry if I’ve left you out of the title. As far as I’m aware, I’ve increased my demographic to include

Lesbian-pretty much all boys

Hunger Games-topical

Deathly Hallows-most girls

Holy-the Pope

Apartheid-if that doesn’t grab Nelson Mandela’s attention, I don’t know what will.

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