• Posts Tagged ‘Books’

    Naked Lunch: Abject Insanity

    by  • February 2, 2012. 9:24 pm • Books, Nikky • 0 Comments

    Naked Lunch William S. Bur­roughs My uncle always has found really inter­est­ing books for me to read. No genre could be excluded from the books he lends me: obscure sci-fi, dense fic­tion, or sub­ver­sive texts are all expected and sub­se­quently con­sumed by my “inno­cent” mind. I had received “Naked Lunch” for my birth­day last year, but finally came to it […]

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    Book Review: The Shadow of the Wind

    by  • January 29, 2012. 9:22 pm • Books, Nikky • 0 Comments

    The Shadow of the Wind Car­los Ruiz Zafón A friend and I reg­u­larly swap books with each other. Although some­times aim­ing to give them a book they’ll really enjoy, often we decide to share some­thing that may be a lit­tle out of the nor­mal topic or genre that they’re used to read­ing. It’s a great way to break out of our […]

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    Reading Recap: Dinosaurs, Valve Software, and General Oddishness

    by  • January 29, 2012. 12:36 am • Nikky • 0 Comments

    Odd­ish­ness? Google claims there are only 15,800 instances of the word “Odd­ish­ness” on the inter­net. I’ll leave it up for debate if this is a) an expected num­ber, or b) grossly exag­ger­ated. As pre­vi­ously noted, I’ve started spool­ing up my read­ing quota from the ear­lier pro­duc­tion of roughly one book com­pleted per month. I’ll start jabbering […]

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    Gettin’ My Books On

    by  • January 29, 2012. 12:02 am • Nikky • 0 Comments

    Movies are Totally Last Year Since grad­u­a­tion from col­lege a cou­ple of years ago, I’ve focused on get­ting up to speed with the pop­u­lar cul­ture cen­tered around these things known as “mov­ing pic­tures.” I watched a bunch, wrote about them, and gen­er­ally had fun feast­ing my eye­balls upon all that the motion pic­ture indus­try had to offer. Then I totally got […]

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    Darconville’s Cat

    by  • June 20, 2009. 11:18 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    When Alexan­der Ther­oux wrote Darconville’s Cat, he wove a story of for­bid­den love and despair while savor­ing unusual words, mul­ti­ple meth­ods of nar­ra­tive, and inter­spersed bits of humor in the midst of a spi­ral into obliv­ion. It’s a highly under appre­ci­ated lit­er­ary work, and if you’re look­ing for some­thing that most likely nobody else you know has read, […]

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    Revealing Insight into Nikky’s Mind (or pointless trivia)

    by  • August 2, 2008. 10:25 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    I’m quite pos­si­bly the most ran­dom book shop­per ever. Not only am I inter­ested in just about every­thing that has ever existed, but I also have a large list of books I need to get which I main­tain in my head. This list will ran­domly spew out knowl­edge to my “action node” and force me to get said book. With […]

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