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Category Archives: fiction
Book Review: Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is quickly becoming one of those writer’s that I resent for their skill and the ease with which they display it. He plays with your emotions using prose so unassuming and lacking in ulterior motive that it … Continue reading
Book Review: Ubik by Philip K. Dick
Yeah, alright. I did it. I told myself I wouldn’t, but here we are. After reading twelve goddamn Philip K. Dick books and finding only a handful that didn’t piss me off as lyricless, drug-laddled sci-fi dime novels, I told … Continue reading
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Tagged A Scanner Darkly, Eye in the Sky, Graham Joyce, horror, mystery, Philip K. Dick, philsophy, pulp, science fiction, Stephen King, The Silent Land, Ubik, VALIS
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Book Review: Digging to America by Anne Tyler
At my work we were given the task of filling out a sheet of paper about the books we liked and the ones we didn’t. There were ‘whys’ and titled examples of what drove us to keep reading and what … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoption, Anne Tyler, culture, Digging to America, Iranian America, milquetoast, motherhood, multiculturalism, parenthood, Parenting, Reader Advisory
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Book Review: Will Save the Galaxy for Food by Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw
There is something about Yahtzee Croshaw that has always appealed to me. I discovered his Zero Punctuation just before it got picked up The Escapist back in 2007. His disdain for tropish literature and general cynicism for, well, everything puts … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Croshaw, humor, Jam, Mogworld, pulp, Satire, science fiction, space opera, Will Save The Galaxy For Food, Yahtzee Croshaw, Zero Puncuation
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Book Review: It by Stephen King
After reading The Dark Tower series I felt like I had given Stephen King a bit of a bad rap. I have lamented about such things earlier, but aside from my drunken late night decision to follow him on Twitter, … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, gore, halloween, Hollywood, horror, It, Pennywise, Pennywise the dancing clown, Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series, Thriller, Violence
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Book Review: Stoner by John Williams
When I was a kid I use to walk through graveyards. I’d search for the oldest headstones and longest lived lying beneath them. I remember running charcoal across crumbled paper in order to decipher those too weathered and beaten to … Continue reading
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Tagged american literature, classics, college, Education, Existentialism, humanity, John Edward Williams, John Williams, literary fiction, Love, perfection, Stoner, World War I
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Book Review: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow back in high school. It was Halloween and as all teachers strive to tie literature to something relevant in their students’ lives, mine did the same. I didn’t remember it. I remember being … Continue reading
Book Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
It’s a weird world and I’m weird man, in a weird place, not unlike the world Atwood writes about here. The way it’s written though, it’s different, strange, lyricless when compared to her other work. There is this self-aware lack … Continue reading
Book Review: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein has always struck me as the weakest of The Big Three. His writing isn’t as good, his stories often lacking in any truly big or interesting ideas. He always felt more like a holdover from the adventure magazine days … Continue reading
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