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Kirk Jones
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After two years without glasses, I finally managed to see an eye doctor a few months ago. I promised myself I’d be honest on the eye exam, unlike my last trip to the DMV when I memorized the sequence of letters before reading them back to the woman at the counter.
I knew my vision was bad, but not third-line-unintelligible bad. After I failed to read virtually all the letters, the doctor slid t...
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Perhaps the purpose of our existence can be boiled down to extremes, with meaning at one end and nothingness at the other. Then again, perhaps w...more " |
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House Hunter
by S.T. Cartledge (Goodreads Author)
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Young lit crits with a penchant for criticizing capitalist democracy
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Satanic Summer
by Andersen Prunty (Goodreads Author)
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recommended for: Folks who love 80s horror
read in March, 2013
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| While it might seem paradoxical to describe anything as "feel good horror," there is no better way to accurately sum up many of the campy 80s horror flicks like Monster Squad, The Lost Boys, and Critters. Those movies were great. There's some great c...more | |
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Michael Rosen, We're Going on a Bear Hunt! (Little, Brown, 1989)
The library decided I needed a copy of the pop-up version of this book. Not sure why, and library pop-up books tend to be well-used, so I couldn't quite get the full effect of some bi... " Read more of this review » |
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I used to read this to my boys when they were little. It's really not a children's book. Little Bunny is an angry guy who goes on a Baby Face Nelson rampage, and winds up in jail. In the end, he is redeemed, but with no redeeming qualities other t...
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt
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recommended for: Masochists
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A Scathing Review of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, aka "The Children's Guide to Passive Suicide" Before we go any further, a little context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWpzxz... There are plenty of children's books about self destructive impulses. In...more |
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“The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
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Hi Kirk, I'm having trouble connecting to your group. Every time I click on the link it says "Sorry group not found." Then I did a word search to see if it would come up that way and nope it sure didn't. I would love to join in on the discussion, but technology isn't liking me today, just thought you should know.
Jasmine wrote: "I just marked your book as want because you're attractive. no wait it might also have been because caris said something nice about it."Well thank you. I didn't see this comment (or any comments on my profile page for that matter) until today, thus the delayed response.
Bradley wrote: "Thank you for adding me as a friend. =)
"No problem! I look forward to reading your reviews in the near future Bradley.
G N wrote: "All the best for 2011, Kirk."Thanks. Same to you. I didn't see these comments until today. Didn't know we could comment on one another's profile pages.
Hmm, I apparently don't know shit about Goodreads, because I never saw any of these comments. Sorry all!
I thought it was a Q&A event initially. As soon as I found out it was a group very similar to the one Steve created I deleted the group, figuring I could answer the questions under threads on there.
Sorry about the mixup! 2am does strange things to me :)