"I'm not sure if that's the right page number but I'm reading about Oscar and Lola's mother in this chapter. Reading this for the third time."
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I suggest The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, because it gives a really different point of view about nerd and geek culture from a Dominican racial perspective. Learning about different cultures is good especially if tied in with nerd history like the origins of anime distribution (it involved Hawaii) and role playing games other than Dungeons and Dragons. ]]>
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I don't have a copy of Let the Right One In so I started reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for the third time. It counts as nerd lit because it's Pulitzer Prize winning nerd lit! Lots of nerd history! From the Seventies! ]]>
Jacobmartin
read and liked
Neil's
review of Asterios Polyp:
"Really beautiful, smart and heart-touching story of an architecture professor who, when he is 50, learns better.
It ought to be a five star review, but I kept feeling like the moment the whole thing came together it would be one of the be...more "
"Really beautiful, smart and heart-touching story of an architecture professor who, when he is 50, learns better.
It ought to be a five star review, but I kept feeling like the moment the whole thing came together it would be one of the be...more "
by David Mazzucchelli
I bought Asterios Polyp myself today as a Christmas gift from Santa, it's kind of like your own Sandman in a way that the only person left in the family who believes in Santa grows old and becomes him, in that fairy-tale sort of way.
I really like the art style of this and the minimalist colouring really brings out the highlights that the reader is meant to take notice of, but I won't get to read the rest of it until Christmas. ]]>
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Jacobmartin
read and liked a piece of writing titled "Popsicle"
by Charissa
"When they tell you, at Weir's Funeral Home, that the dead are cold to the touch, what they mean is that they are frozen solid. Which I suppose is as it should be. It's August and we won't be embalmi" ...read more »
"When they tell you, at Weir's Funeral Home, that the dead are cold to the touch, what they mean is that they are frozen solid. Which I suppose is as it should be. It's August and we won't be embalmi" ...read more »
by Michael Inger
Sometimes the Junot Diaz approach to footnotes works better than Terry Pratchett footnotes in a story. Read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao to see what I mean.
Terry Pratchett style footnotes are funny when used properly, especially when an author uses his or her own voice to invigorate the footnotes. ]]>