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COULD YOU SURVIVE ON YOUR OWN, IN THE WILD, WITH EVERYONE OUT TO MAKE SURE …
The concept remains an all-timer, but it really does hit a wall in the last act when they push the little dolls together to smooch. Oddly, the movie is an improvement in these key scenes. Still, the Capitol is a great systemic villain and I now have hundreds of hours of Survivor to inform just how accurate this was.
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, …
The story hits you like a ton of bricks while also providing the kind of nuance that only true lived experience can give. Excellent.
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark A Vagrant fame, there was Katie Beaton of …
In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 …
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners …
I feel like I'm not being totally fair to the book, because I started judging it based on its reputation and hype versus its own merits. On its own, it's a spirited attempt to present a complex interpersonal relationship amidst the backdrop of an industry that is more and more relevant to the average reader with the passing of the years. Ultimately, I was really hoping for more integration of these digital worlds that Zevin envisioned, Mapleworld and Pioneers. The characters themselves....were tough for me to stick with. Sam ranges from really nasty to awkwardly solipsistic in his attempts to reach out to his best friends. Sadie is ready to stop all forward progress in character development at the first sign of Zevin setting her up for trauma. Basically, I thought this book would evolve us past the need for books like Neuromancer, but we're still waiting for that day.
I feel like I'm not being totally fair to the book, because I started judging it based on its reputation and hype versus its own merits. On its own, it's a spirited attempt to present a complex interpersonal relationship amidst the backdrop of an industry that is more and more relevant to the average reader with the passing of the years. Ultimately, I was really hoping for more integration of these digital worlds that Zevin envisioned, Mapleworld and Pioneers. The characters themselves....were tough for me to stick with. Sam ranges from really nasty to awkwardly solipsistic in his attempts to reach out to his best friends. Sadie is ready to stop all forward progress in character development at the first sign of Zevin setting her up for trauma. Basically, I thought this book would evolve us past the need for books like Neuromancer, but we're still waiting for that day.
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners …
I feel like I'm not being totally fair to the book, because I started judging it based on its reputation and hype versus its own merits. On its own, it's a spirited attempt to present a complex interpersonal relationship amidst the backdrop of an industry that is more and more relevant to the average reader with the passing of the years. Ultimately, I was really hoping for more integration of these digital worlds that Zevin envisioned, Mapleworld and Pioneers. The characters themselves....were tough for me to stick with. Sam ranges from really nasty to awkwardly solipsistic in his attempts to reach out to his best friends. Sadie is ready to stop all forward progress in character development at the first sign of Zevin setting her up for trauma. Basically, I thought this book would evolve us past the need for books like Neuromancer, but we're still waiting for that day.
I feel like I'm not being totally fair to the book, because I started judging it based on its reputation and hype versus its own merits. On its own, it's a spirited attempt to present a complex interpersonal relationship amidst the backdrop of an industry that is more and more relevant to the average reader with the passing of the years. Ultimately, I was really hoping for more integration of these digital worlds that Zevin envisioned, Mapleworld and Pioneers. The characters themselves....were tough for me to stick with. Sam ranges from really nasty to awkwardly solipsistic in his attempts to reach out to his best friends. Sadie is ready to stop all forward progress in character development at the first sign of Zevin setting her up for trauma. Basically, I thought this book would evolve us past the need for books like Neuromancer, but we're still waiting for that day.
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen …
This edition is based on the reset edition first published 2002 which is a revised …
I get, John Ronald Reuel. Things used to be nice and now they're not anymore. Yadah yadah, five stars.
I get, John Ronald Reuel. Things used to be nice and now they're not anymore. Yadah yadah, five stars.
The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony …
Like a long episode of that VH1 show, which is extremely my shit.
Ghosts floated onto my radar earlier in the pandemic. I got it from the library and read 50 pages, telling myself "I want to buy this book." It took me something like 13 months to buy it and several more months to read it, but once I got into the thick of it again, I actually blazed through the story.
Ghosts just......works for me as a modern romance. Nina's observational wit presents a world I recognize and avidly want to hear her take on. The identifiable social satire of grown adults who start to sequester themselves according to relationship status hit me in the gut and nestled there. There was one plotline that I felt got somewhat bodice rippery, but I think I understand why she chose to take that relationship there in the end.
This one's special to me. Highly recommended.
Ghosts floated onto my radar earlier in the pandemic. I got it from the library and read 50 pages, telling myself "I want to buy this book." It took me something like 13 months to buy it and several more months to read it, but once I got into the thick of it again, I actually blazed through the story.
Ghosts just......works for me as a modern romance. Nina's observational wit presents a world I recognize and avidly want to hear her take on. The identifiable social satire of grown adults who start to sequester themselves according to relationship status hit me in the gut and nestled there. There was one plotline that I felt got somewhat bodice rippery, but I think I understand why she chose to take that relationship there in the end.
This one's special to me. Highly recommended.
This is a history, review, and business analysis book, covering the Mario games by Nintendo, …
Not enough about Tetris.
This is a history, review, and business analysis book, covering the Mario games by Nintendo, …
It's only fitting if I'm going to devote this much time to gaming that I should re-familiarize myself with the difficult business narrative of how gaming in North America really came to be. My favorite book on this subject is David Scheff's GAME OVER, from which this book heavily borrows its first-half structure. (Ryan cites Scheff's work at least one time, indicating that yes, he read it, and decided to follow the timeline almost exactly).
It's only fitting if I'm going to devote this much time to gaming that I should re-familiarize myself with the difficult business narrative of how gaming in North America really came to be. My favorite book on this subject is David Scheff's GAME OVER, from which this book heavily borrows its first-half structure. (Ryan cites Scheff's work at least one time, indicating that yes, he read it, and decided to follow the timeline almost exactly).
