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Originally written by Cosmic Limit:

—Alorael, who has been led to believe that Necronomicon can be spelled any number of ways. It's only when intersecting Earth's slice of three-space that it happens to appear to be two dimensional letters with a traceable etymology.

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I bought Bring the Jubilee because I heard it praised as the first great alternate history by time travel book, and was rather disappointed. In a curiously appropriate, backwards-causality way, it felt derivative. It didn't seem to me to have all that much going for it beyond the basic idea, and since the basic idea was quite familiar to me, I was unimpressed. The fact (if such it is) that this book originated the idea was of merely historical relevance; it didn't actually help me appreciate the book itself.

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Originally written by Thuryl:

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Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I bought Bring the Jubilee because I heard it praised as the first great alternate history by time travel book, and was rather disappointed. In a curiously appropriate, backwards-causality way, it felt derivative. It didn't seem to me to have all that much going for it beyond the basic idea, and since the basic idea was quite familiar to me, I was unimpressed. The fact (if such it is) that this book originated the idea was of merely historical relevance; it didn't actually help me appreciate the book itself.

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I vaguely recall two literary academics once compiling a list of "50 books that never needed to be written", including Beowulf, Lord of the Rings and Tom Jones. The writers reviewed all the books in the list and argued that each of them was bland, cliched and contributed nothing new to the literary canon.

The whole list was, of course, a joke, designed to illustrate the fact that the literary works on it had all permeated so deeply throughout our culture that the works themselves no longer seemed to have any significantly original content from the viewpoint of an average modern person.

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Originally written by Jibun wo Ecchi Suru:

Although technically, Beowulf really didn't have to be written.

Since, you know, it wasn't.

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