After being lazy and forgetting, I have just decided to do a book dump and mark off all of the books I read this year. Enjoy. 33. Alphabet Juice Roy Blount Jr. – Very odd and dry, this book is…
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Book Review: Tipping Points
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I have tried to start this review like four times. I am not a business book kind of guy, in general. Frankly, I got in to this book and Outliers because I was thinking it would read more economic like…
Book Review: Blood Sucking Fiends
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As I wrote about in the review of Dark Shadows, there is a general whorification of the conceptual vampire in the modern press. As with the tradition German Horror Movie movement in the early 20th century, the vampire has become…
Book Review: The Dark Knight Returns
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I have become obsessed with Batman as much of the world has. In general, his darkness and chaotic good nature compels me. There are few places where this is truer than in this book. There is something both wonderful and…
Book Review: Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
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Chuck Klosterman IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas was first published by Scribner in 2006, his fourth. The book consists of three sections: Things That Are True is a collection of previously published interviews with new introductions…
Book Review: Treasury of the Lost Litter Box
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In the comic world, there are only a few bright lights in my mind. Of them, Darby Conley is near the top. There is something so wonderful about the mundane world of the main character Rob, who is the human…
Book Review: Diamonds Are Forever
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In my quest to read all the James Bond books, I have come to Diamonds are forever. The plot is complex as most Bond Films are. James Bond is sent on an assignment by M to infiltrate a smuggling ring…
Book Review: I’ll Mature When I Die
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For what can only be explained as, “for some unknown reason,” Dave Barry is the funniest writer in the world to me. I know in general, I post about comedians and stand up sets, laughing at podcasts and the like,…
Book Review: The Pluto Files
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I have, apparently, become obsessed with science. The current example of such is my reading of the Pluto Files by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Tyson is one of my favorite scientists around right now and his lighthearted, but still profound style…
Book Review: Napoleon’s Privates
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In general, there are a lot of history books that try to address a simple problem that plagues academia; experts tend to being boring. This book, like many in a similar genre, try to take heavy, overwrought history and make…