Category: writing / books
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Book Review: Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
You could describe Ender’s Game as Harry Potter in space. It’d be a pretty shitty way of describing it, since Ender came long before Harry , but the similarities are there. We’ve got a school full of kids who are special, an upcoming war, a sport that involves flying around and reaching a goal, and…
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Puaj! More PWTIC Publicity
Oh hey, I forgot to mention that my other blog, Putting Weird Things in Coffee (which is about putting weird things in coffee) has gotten some more publicity. This brief article appeared in an actual physical newspaper in Argentina called Clarin. Er, Clarín. I guess this is a big deal, because according to Wikipedia, it’s…
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Book Review: World War Z, by Max Brooks
World War Z was not what I expected. Brooks’ previous effort was The Zombie Survival Guide, and I thought World War Z would be his attempt at a straight-forward zombie novel. That is not the case. The book can be considered a collection of very short stories that take place in the same world (which…
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