Pitch Black Youme Landowne; Anthony Horton Pitch Black isn’t a particularly long graphic novel: only clocking in at roughly 40 pages. But its power comes from the messages that radiate out from the text. The poignant story reveals just a bit of what it’s like to be a homeless man in New York who chooses to live underground in the abandoned […]
Read more →Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72 Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Journalism With a Political Twist I like Thompson’s work. He’s insightful, intelligent, and overall just a really entertaining guy to read. Fear and Loathing is really no different in that respect. He follows George McGovern throughout the presidential campaign in 1972, and is writing a series for, who else, Rolling […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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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