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What I’m Reading on the Bus: A Review of Life of Pi
This book was not what I expected it to be. I’d heard about it here and there, and the plot synopsis while simple, was intriguing enough to make me pick it up. It’s about an Indian boy who finds himself lost at sea, adrift in a rowboat with a 450 pound tiger as his only [...]
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books
Three-Dimensional Floating Sinew
Or something like that. There’s a fairly rave review up at the Book Covers Blog for the packaging to the new Chuck Palahniuk book I mentioned earlier. While I generally adhere to the whole “not by it’s cover” school of judging a book, I must admit that this one looks pretty damn cool. Granted, [...]
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books
And on the Other Hand…
You have stuff like the Bulwer-Lytton Contest:
“Like an over-ripe beefsteak tomato rimmed with cottage cheese, the
corpulent remains of Santa Claus lay dead on the hotel floor.”
“On reflection, Angela perceived that her relationship with Tom had always been rocky, not quite a roller-coaster ride but more like when the toilet-paper roll gets a little squashed so [...] -
books, ponderings
It Was a Dark and Stormy Opening
Guy Dammann has an article up over at the Guardian Book Blog about his favorite first lines (but since he is British, he spells it “favourite”). This is something I’ve always thought about. For many, the first line is the most important part of a novel. It’s the hook that has to make people want [...]
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academia, books
This Is The Other Thing I’ve Been Doing Instead of Posting…
05.17.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt’s another paper. This one is about how the Canterbury Tales can be read as a postmodern text. If you read it (and why would you?) you’ll notice a few shared concerns with the other one, but not really. The main point of correspondence is that I like John Barth.
I know this cheating, but you’ll [...] -
academia, books
This Is What I’m Doing Instead of Posting…
05.16.07 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIt’s a paper. Read it if you like John Barth, Freud, or Existentialism and Nihilism expressed as an Academic Love Triangle. If you do like those things, God help you…
Nothing stays buried. This is the central lesson of psychoanalysis and the most important thing Freud has to teach us about the way the human [...]
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