I guess you’d do it. I mean, I have prequel shaped wounds that time will never heal, but I still wouldn’t turn down getting George Lucas a glass of water if he asked for it. I mean, I might get a second glass to dump over his head while screaming “Han shot first!” But I would still make sure he wasn’t parched first. But being commanded by one of your idols to do something maybe isn’t the best way to get the creative juices flowing. […]
I Hope Those are the Kinds of Lasers that Slice People in Half
I was very hesitant to pick up another Stephenson book. I read Diamond Age and was underwhelmed. And, my copy of Snow Crash came with a cover blurb comparing the story to Neuromancer, which was a book that almost made me feel physical pain trying to read through it. So I didn’t have high hopes for Snow Crash, but I wanted to cross another title off the of NPR’s 100 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy list. Little did I know that snow Crash would become […]
Crime and Punishment, Via India
It’s hard to get satire when you aren’t familiar the culture being lampooned. There were times in this book where I got it, I knew the hyperbolic statements weren’t the real truth of India. But then there were other times I wasn’t so sure; I know India isn’t Bollywood and yoga and religious ceremonies Westerners can steal to make themed 5ks. But I also don’t know enough to determine if rich people running over poor people and then getting their servants to confess to it […]
Wouldn’t Even Use This as Litter for my Vampire Cat
I should give this book one of my one star snark fest reviews. But my love and nostalgia for the first book in the series convinced me to add on another star. Besides, if Moore would have just deleted all references and conversations involving the most annoying character in all of literature, the book would have been much better (and, also, about five pages.) Alas, this book was mostly written as the Live Journal of Abby Normal (real name is Allison Green, I think, but […]
“One can forgive but one should never forget.”
Aside from the five stars, I also gave it four Tracey Jordans on the Hard to Watch/Read scale. Don’t get my wrong, it’s an absolutely beautiful book, but it’s also moving and powerful. Lots of emotions in this one. Satrapi chronicles her life as a teen in Iran during the unrest in the 1980’s. The cutesy, childlike drawings are juxtaposed against the atrocities they depict. For example, one panel is a short bio of one of her parents’ friends, newly released from jail for being […]
Reefer Madness
I’m not buying that “Anonymous” crap. Sparks claimed that this was a journal of one of her patients, a teen addicted to drugs that ruined her life. Sparks has this amazing luck with finding kids with hot button issues that also loved journaling AND letting their therapist have all their old diaries. These teens also were really focused in their writing, only covering said moral panic issues and not the usual crap that all of us other teens wrote about. The irony is that Sparks wrote […]
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