Books

Less Than Zero is a book that dudes like, or, in our current discourse, a good book.

Maybe it comes from being close to the target demographic of 23-year-old girls with Tumblrs, but I liked this book. It’s honest and disillusioned and insightful when it needs to be. Suck it, Time Out.

Parabolist: noun (1) one who speaks in parables. (2) a member of a splinter group of disaffected young poets in Mexico City c. 1975. (3) a practitioner of the art of concentrating multiple sources of energy into a single focus, illuminating or, if left unchecked, destroying everything in its path.

JD Salinger died today at age 91, which came as a bit of a surprise, since I had no idea he was still alive. The first time I read Catcher in the Rye was last August, which was too bad, since I suspect that if I had read it much earlier (read: when I was…Read More

Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan takes place in an alternate pre-WWI Europe that is as much about possible futures as it is about alternate pasts.

The way you experience a book is subjective.

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