Rule #1,087

Spoiler Theme Rule #2:

You can't not love Big Brother.

Rule #1,076

One of the advantages to a major that involves a lot of reading is books big enough to be used as weapons.

Rule #1,073 (End of What Makes Books Great Theme Week)

What Makes Books Great Rule #7:

Great books teach lessons without spelling them out.

Rule #1,072

What Makes Books Great Rule #6:

Great books are entertaining.

Rule #1,071

What Makes Books Great Rule #5:

Great books make you question what you believe in.

Rule #1,070

What Makes Books Great Rule #4:

Great books show you a better way to understand the world.

Rule #1,069

What Makes Books Great Rule #3:

Great books show you a future both terrifying and eerily realistic.

Rule #1,068

What Makes Books Great Rule #2:

Great books have characters that feel so real that when they die it's like you've lost a friend.

Rule #1,067 (Beginning of What Makes Books Great Theme Week)

 I'm an avid reader, and some books just have a tendency to draw you and captivate you.  In honor of such wonderful books, I'm writing a week's worth of rules concerning things books do that make them equal to more than the sum of their parts.

What Makes Books Great Rule #1:

Great books have such an interesting world setting that the background itself becomes a character.

Rule #1,061

Even with a 20% employee discount, it's still usually cheaper to buy textbooks used on Amazon.

Rule #911 (End of Literary Guest Week #2)

Literary Guest Rule #14 (from Brave New World):

When the individual feels, the community reels.

Rule #910

Literary Guest Rule #13 (from Beowulf):

Let whoever can win glory before death.

Rule #909

Literary Guest Rule #12 (from To Kill a Mockingbird):

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Rule #908

Literary Guest Rule #11 (from Ender's Game):

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Rule #907

Literary Guest Rule #10 (from 1984):

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

Rule #906

Literary Guest Rule #9 (from Lord of the Flies):

Maybe there is a beast...maybe it's only us.

Rule #905 (Beginning of Sequel Month #2 & Literary Guest Week #2)

Why work hard when you can follow a familiar, successful formula?

Literary Guest Rule #8 (from The Hobbit):

There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something.

Rule #881

You don't need to quote sources if you're popular enough.[citation needed]

Rule #878

There are too many good books, and not enough time to read them all.

Rule #861

When a book is divided into two parts, you're more likely to wind up with the half that you don't need.