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9:08 AM

What the fresh hell? Magnum is releasing a Dante-themed ice cream bar..

Daily readings at tomb honor Dante 700 years after his death. Just so you understand the timing of the release of "Magnum Inferno" ;-)

Celebrate Italy’s Year Of Dante With Fantastic Free Online Resources.

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Bookworm

2:45 PM

Q: Rick Riordan Mythology Books

So I am reading Rick Riordan books right now, and so far I have read the following books in the following order: Percy Jackson Heroes of Olympus Trials of Apollo Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard So now I do not know what to read next. all I know is that I want it to be BY Rick Riordan. Any sug...

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Tsundoku

5:10 PM

"Parachute companies never get low ratings because everyone that rated it survived." (some random website)

Example of survival bias.

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Tsundoku

7:09 PM

I have turned the meta question about unpinning accepted answers into a survey. Please vote on the answers, so I can take the result as feedback to Meta SE.

bobble

7:37 PM

I quite literally have no opinion about this topic for Literature so I'll abstain.

Tsundoku

So do we need an "I abstain" answer?

bobble

Not sure what purpose that would serve? Just noting that I won't be casting a vote even though I've seen the Q

Tsundoku

Knowing how many people have no opinion about the question is also a type of information.

I have just found out that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le petit prince has been translated into Middle High German and Manx.

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Rand al'Thor

8:49 PM

I'm unsure what to think about unpinning too.

My initial gut instinct is to keep accepted answers pinned, but that might be just based on a "don't move my cheese" reflex.

My co-mods on SFF have provided some arguments for unpinning there, and acceptance is even less important here than on SFF, as our questions less commonly have a single answer considered "correct".

The main sticking point is identification-requests which do have a single correct answer.

b_jonas

9:34 PM

I don't have a strong opinion on this. Keeping accepted on top is probably slightly better, but not sure.

Rand al'Thor

9:54 PM

@Tsundoku now has exactly 32,000 rep.

Only 768 to go for a nice round number ;-)

@Bookworm Why does this question, among all possible series order questions, keep coming up here so many times?

bobble

It's a sprawling, complicated, interconnected series where multiple things happen at once, which is primarily aimed at kids, who might be less inclined to do the research necessary to come up with the canonical?

It's my impression that standard YA series are much more straight chronologically: a main line, maybe a sequel or a prequel, sometimes a companion novel. Whereas Riordan's stuff is a gigantic mess of timelines and inter-series nods.