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[kitsuchan]

Still no internet. When the technician ran a diagnostic and said, "That's really weird! I've never seen anything that weird!" I knew it was going to be a long wait. If it's not fixed by Friday, just canceling my account and relying on the library for the six weeks I still have here. On the plus side, a new coffee shop opened up about two blocks

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[summercomfort]

Wow, that's great news about Max!! :D

Horrible news about internet and illness, though. :(

And your description of Oil! sounds very like The Jungle, in its socialist preachiness and vague attempt at a plot...

[kitsuchan]

It's okay, the illness is getting better and I think cutting back on internet is not the worst thing in the world for me.

And yeah, that sounds pretty similar. The thing is, I agree with him that it was pretty horrible the way big business treated labor (and still does sometimes). But the novel would have been more effective if I could have cared about any of the people oppressed, but since the main character is the son of a big oilman, I don't even get a chance to get to know any of the oppressed laborers. And the main character is too much like various campus communists I knew at Chicago for him to be that sympathetic a character.

[kitsuchan]

Cool, I put a library hold on it.