Category: Books
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Paper Exhalation
A double book report for two tangentially-related books: Paper by Mark Kurlansky, and Exhalation by Ted Chiang
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Museum of the Weird
Reading Rolly Crump’s book convinced me I’ve been wrong about Disney’s tension between originality and familiarity.
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Magpie Murders
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz is a murder mystery nested within a murder mystery nested within a defense of murder mysteries as a literary genre
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10% Chance of Soft Rains
Reading The Martian Chronicles in 2019 feels wonderfully transgressive and optimistic, and is the best example of Ray Bradbury’s genius that I’ve read so far.
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One Thing I Love About “Stories of Your Life and Others”
I think Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang is a work of genius that dispels my assumptions about science fiction vs science fantasy
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Roughage: A Novel
A somewhat interesting question arises from an uninteresting debate: can books be both cinematic and literary? How much can we expect to get from a work of art, if artists deliver everything to us in an easily digestible manner?
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Eerie Tales of the House of Mystery
Today on Late to the Party Theater: Chuck discovers that Locke & Key is a terrific horror comic that calls back to the “classics” without feeling like a self-conscious reinterpretation.
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When I Was a Child, I Made Fun of Childish Things
Getting defensive over a sneering op-ed about what Adults should be reading
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Being Katniss Everdeen
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention! The internet’s preeminent Hunger Games fan and the bold battle against real racism.
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Are you not entertained?!
Something about The Hunger Games isn’t sitting right with me, and I’m not quite sure exactly what it is. Minor spoilers abound.
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Something Rotten
Orson Scott Card finally explains what Hamlet’s real problem was all along, but we’re still no closer to finding out why Card is such an asshole.
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Literacy 2010: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
My return to reading, more or less, starts with a book that kind of goes downhill after the title page.