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Audio Killed the Literature Star
Tonight I have a very special double feature! Two works of "literary fiction," one that makes for an amazing audiobook and one that does not. See if you can guess which is which!
In recent years, I've become really interested in the fact that everything you know about how the world works, what it is, you learn. You come into the world all tabula ( Read more... ) -
The Not That Brief, Not That Wondrous Book of Junot Díaz
I waited for a month or so to get my hands on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. It's the latest Pulitzer Prize winner, and everyone's reading it. There were forty holds on it at the library when I gave it a click. I was very excited.
I loved all the geeky references, from Akira to The Stand, from Doctor Who to Dungeons and ( Read more... ) -
Idiots May Hold Ostriches
As you all know, my opinion is worth more than everyone else's. In a recent Gallup poll, respondents were asked to choose between the following two options:
- The opinion of spectralbovine is worth more than everyone else's.
- I would like to be eaten by a rhinoceros.
100% of respondents chose the first option!Here are three things, then, that have received my ( Read more... ) - The opinion of spectralbovine is worth more than everyone else's.
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Last Dance of the Intelligentsia
Do not read Foucault's Pendulum.
Let me amend that. Do not read Foucault's Pendulum for the sake of reading Foucault's Pendulum. It is at least 200 pages too long, and do you really have that kind of time? The last couple months, I have been inexplicably been having issues with my own mortality-okay, it's actually not too inexplicable when you ( Read more... ) -
This Is My "I'd Rather Be Spelunking" Face
So it looks like everyone hates The Da Vinci Code except the people who don't. And we should start a little club for us folks who hate The Shipping News.
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Oh My God, You Look Like a Frog!
So I finally read the fucking Da Vinci Code.
And you know what? I enjoyed it.
My earliest recollection of being exposed to the book was Melanie's recommendation three years ago. She loved it; I don't know if it had become immensely popular by then.
Now, she loved it. Nearly everyone else I knew who spoke of the book in the next three years hated ( Read more... )