04 May 2012
Two years ago, I was assigned a reading on the psychology of comic books. In 2012, comic books have risen to a true art form: graphic novels. Not only are many of the illustrations as un-cartoonish as possible, but the writing is, well, sharp. There are no more BLAMs and KA-POWs, nothing Adam West would [...]
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04 May 2012
TIME Magazine really wanted Jonathan Franzen to be the Next Great American Author. I wanted to buy into it, too, before I had read any of his books. As you can imagine, that set me up for disappointment. Franzen is a vibrant, skilled author and, as he will admit, not quite on par with the [...]
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04 May 2012
This was definitely my favorite book in high school, and it’s probably still in the top ten today. The novel discussed the language of the world and how it interacted with a Santiago’s search for treasure in the Pyramids of Giza. If you haven’t read the book, you have still likely heard one of its [...]
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04 May 2012
The Giver frustrates me because it has high school themes at a middle school reading level. In high school, the rebels start to show their mettle. The things you talked about doing in middle school you do or do not do in high school. Everything feels as confusing and new as it did to Jonas. [...]
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04 May 2012
So much of my literate history involved the discovery of truth and falsehood. The plot reveal of who was lying and who wasn’t made the story what it was. Characters developed to the extent of how often they told the truth and what that truth looked like. Then along comes The Things They Carried in [...]
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02 May 2012
LOGIC-DEVOID POCKET OF SPACE — A hyper-dimensional spacecraft jettisoned from Earth eight years ago finally reached its destination of Planet 141X with all eight passengers safely touching down in the estrogen-heavy atmosphere. Preliminary photos and video showed no signs of life, but at 4 p.m. today, the scientists reported having made contact with mysterious life [...]
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12 April 2012
When you read the Great Gatsby chronologically backward, you get Tender Is The Night. Dick Diver started off successful; Gatsby started as nothing; they went their respective ways. One might assume that means these are the same book; one would be wrong. The story focuses on the life and times of the Divers, Dick and [...]
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12 April 2012
There has to be some other explanation for the Harry Potter success besides “It was about witches and wizards”. You know how those guys who played Dungeons and Dragons got more tail than professional athletes? You don’t know that? It must be true, because this wizarding franchise is cool to the tune of billions of [...]
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02 April 2012
Let’s play word association: Kony. If your mind rushed to “child enslaver”, congratulations: you haven’t been on the internet in the past two weeks. If your mind rushed to “drunken public masturbator on a California sidewalk at three in the afternoon”, don’t bother cutting yourself because you already know you bleed the stars and stripes. [...]
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01 March 2012
Only one word for it: wow! What a start to the mehstivities! The ceremony started off lackluster, never hit a fever pitch, and dragged on interminably; it’s all you could ask for on a night dedicated to the mediocre. The whole affair was bedazzle-studded and directionless. I was almost scared to go to the wrap [...]
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