Hey, that looks good. I bet Princeton is capitalizing on the success of *On Bullshit*!
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Thedoifter's review of
A Dirty Job byChristopher Moore
My favorites were *Blodsucking Fiends" and *You Suck,* the vampire love stories. Have to say the rest of them run together a bit in my memory, but I enjoyed them all. In fact I might actually have read *A Dirty Job,* but I'm not sure. I remember being a little annoyed by the whale one, *Fluke,* and I thought the one about Jesus, *Lamb* (which might be his most famous) was funny but a bit overrated.
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Molly's review of
Infinite Jest: A Novel byDavid Foster Wallace
Yay! I'm so glad you're reading it, Molly. Even gladder you're liking it. I only wish you could have come to all the Infinite Summer meetups we had at the Four-Faced Liar in NYC this summer.
That blog, and the forums, were pretty darn interesting, but even more I enjoyed talking about the book with people who are as blown away by DFW as I am. Also it was nice to have people to ask dumb questions of. Here's my post about our meetups: http://infinitesummer.org/archives/1160
Occasionally we talked about DFW's "wrong" tech predictions. It's easy just to laugh knowingly at the "3.6 Mb diskettes" and the fact that phones are still attached to walls and so on, but I actually think that he was very insightful about technology. He himself was fairly technophobe, as I understand it -- at least, he resisted using e-mail for a long time. I do think he underestimated the potential for technology to bring people together instead of separating them (I'm talking emotionally, intellectually, even spiritually here), but at the same time there's something all too familiar about the phenomenon he describes somewhere around p. 620, wherein "public spect-ops" become rather precious precisely because people are tired of their "floating no-space world of personal spectation." And then, too, he's got a point when he points out that consumer empowerment is, um, not the same thing as political empowerment (or, again, emotional, intellectual, spiritual empowerment).
Such a funny book, such a sad book, such an ingenious verbal contraption. Hope you've gotten to the Eschaton scene -- that's my favorite. I got to read the best part of that scene aloud, starting with "IRLIBSYR's strongman Evan Ingersoll" all the way to the horrible, delightful end. It was also just wonderful to listen to someone else read from the catalog of things you can learn in AA, beginning with "That you do not have to like a person in order to learn from him/her/it."
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Stacy's review of
The Nursing Mother's Companion: Revised Edition byKathleen Huggins
Sounds like an awesome book! I'm totally getting a copy! :)
I'm teaching this book in my "Creating Digital History" course in a few weeks. Good stuff, especially for people who've been extensively trained by traditional librarians. And David Weinberger has a PhD in philosophy, so his insights are taken more seriously by us snooty humanists in academe than those of someone like, say, Chris Anderson, who's all bidness all da time.
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