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    Life in the Tunnels: Review of “Pitch Black”

    by  • March 23, 2012. 10:32 pm • Books, Nikky • 0 Comments

    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 […]

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    Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72

    by  • March 2, 2012. 7:27 pm • Books, Nikky • 0 Comments

    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 […]

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    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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