false 25 178 152 true 5640013 read 2 true 144211 currently-reading 19 true 144210 to-read 5 true 3448612 ya-lit-to-read http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78482550 to: The Book of Lost Things (Hardcover) by John Connolly
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78482473 The Good Thief: A Novel (Paperback) by Hannah Tinti
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76264974 Walden: Or, Life in the Woods (Hardcover) by Henry David Thoreau
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72516683 The White Tiger (Hardcover) by Aravind Adiga
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72515691 to: The Surrogates (Paperback) by Robert Venditti
Fresh from reading Venditti's sci-fi GN about a world where humans have become ridiculously over-dependent on technology, I feel a little guilty using the intertubes to announce my reading habits. But The Surrogates does what science fiction is supposed to do: it reflects on the ethics of technology while telling a good story.

A quick read that will stay with you, the most poignant part of the tale is the relationship between Lt. Greer and his wife. Also deeply affecting, for different reasons, is the proposition, revealed late in the novel, that surrogates will soon be made available to children. While the former sub-plot is bittersweet, the latter is simply terrifying. Both however, cause one to realize what is at stake.

As Steeplejack would have it: "Live." ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70938144 to: Watchmen (Paperback) by Alan Moore
Okay. I understand why it's kind of a big deal: The characters are complex... when compared to other mid-80's graphic novels/works of sequential art. They aren't remarkably complex when compared to the characters of more traditional literature - the nameless narrator of Ellison's Invisible Man, for example.

Where the book does stand out, and may be justly praised, is in its consideration and presentation of its theme. In this regard, the most flattering comparison may be with Oedipus Rex. Both texts ask: "At what price truth?" and, "at what price peace?" Where in Oedipus the truth is personal and the peace is with the gods, in Watchmen the truth is political and the peace is with the Russians. While the fundamental question is worth asking, the subsequent rumination is more satisfying if it is timeless, personal, and metaphysical. This is why we still read Sophocles; I doubt Moore will be as highly praised two millennia from now. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69709753 to: Invisible Man (Paperback) by Ralph Ellison
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70819932 to: Oedipus the King (Plays for Performance) by Sophocles
]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69709999 The Souls of Black Folk (Penguin Classics) by W.E.B. DuBois
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69709899 Native Son (Paperback) by Richard Wright
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