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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath.
I got this for free from a makeshift lending library some crazy person set up in a break room at the Patent Office. I wanted to like it but it didn't make that much of an impression. I already knew that it sucked to be a woman and/or psychiatric patient in the 1950s. Obviously I've dealt with depression and such issues myself, but I feel like this story has been told better in the years since this book was published.
Desperate Networks, Bill Carter.
The inside story of the four major TV networks in the 2003-2007 era. The book already feels a little outdated; who honestly cares about Desperate Housewives or Lost anymore? From my (admittedly nerdy) perspective, the major networks have been largely irrelevant for years anyway.
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, by Naguru Tanigawa.
Fourth in the original series of light novels that inspired the anime. Will be released as a DVD movie (in the US) in September. Good, but not a good jumping-on point.
I got this for free from a makeshift lending library some crazy person set up in a break room at the Patent Office. I wanted to like it but it didn't make that much of an impression. I already knew that it sucked to be a woman and/or psychiatric patient in the 1950s. Obviously I've dealt with depression and such issues myself, but I feel like this story has been told better in the years since this book was published.
Desperate Networks, Bill Carter.
The inside story of the four major TV networks in the 2003-2007 era. The book already feels a little outdated; who honestly cares about Desperate Housewives or Lost anymore? From my (admittedly nerdy) perspective, the major networks have been largely irrelevant for years anyway.
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, by Naguru Tanigawa.
Fourth in the original series of light novels that inspired the anime. Will be released as a DVD movie (in the US) in September. Good, but not a good jumping-on point.