mindless blather
I got two Borders gift cards from my family, so I went to online to browse books. I'm sick as hell, so forgive me if the majority of this is incoherent.
Also, I got Barbara Kingsolver's new book, The Lacuna, which is quite good. Not as good as The Bean Trees, IMHO, but still enjoyable. The chunk of the novel that takes place in Coyoacán in the late 1930s is definitely my favorite part, particularly the epic/disastrous non-fictional Diego-Frida-Trotsky love triagle. Barbara Kingsolver also pays attention to Trotsky's wife, which is wonderful - the poor woman usually gets ignored. If I ever get a time machine, I'm going to go back in time and bake her (Natalya, not Barbara) a freaking cake or something.
Also, Shattered Memories is pretty fantastic. Much better than Homecoming, in my opinion. The absolutely wrecking of the one normal relationship in the series was really unnerving at first, but I guess that was the whole point. The game looks nice and is fun to play - both pluses.
- How many freakin' copies of the Communist Manifesto do you need?
- Why is Glenn Beck dressed up like some kind of Banana Republic dictator on one of his books?
- Why is Ann Coulter wearing the same dress on the covers of all of her books?
- I don't think moderates write political books.
- Bill Clinton and Leon Trotsky's autobiographies are both called My Life.
- There are only three kinds of people biographers write about: heads of state, revolutionaries, and people whose lives would make good Lifetime movies.
- How many freakin' biographies of Hitler do you need?
- How many freakin' biographies of Stalin do you need?
- How many freakin' biographies of Che Guevara do you need?
- How many freakin' biographies of Trotsky do you need?
- How many freakin' biographies of Gandhi do you need?
- Strangely, there are way more biographies of Trotsky and Stalin than there are of Lenin.
- No one wants to write about Robespierre, despite the fact that he was an ends-justifies-the-means revolutionary before they were in vogue.
- There is, however, at least one biography of Danton.
Also, I got Barbara Kingsolver's new book, The Lacuna, which is quite good. Not as good as The Bean Trees, IMHO, but still enjoyable. The chunk of the novel that takes place in Coyoacán in the late 1930s is definitely my favorite part, particularly the epic/disastrous non-fictional Diego-Frida-Trotsky love triagle. Barbara Kingsolver also pays attention to Trotsky's wife, which is wonderful - the poor woman usually gets ignored. If I ever get a time machine, I'm going to go back in time and bake her (Natalya, not Barbara) a freaking cake or something.
Also, Shattered Memories is pretty fantastic. Much better than Homecoming, in my opinion. The absolutely wrecking of the one normal relationship in the series was really unnerving at first, but I guess that was the whole point. The game looks nice and is fun to play - both pluses.