So I just finished The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz, and it was pretty funny. I’m a fan of almost any book that uses the word “f***face” in it. The stuff about the Dominican Republic was really interesting, and the constant references to nerd mythos were awesome. Even though I’m […]
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Not so brief or wondrous
November 27th, 2009 · No Comments
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Zen and the art of being an awful father
September 11th, 2009 · No Comments
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig, has really good intentions, but very little follow through, just like a twelve-year-old’s penis. Zen isn’t really a novel because its plot – a father taking his son on a cross-country motorcycle trip – is mostly just a metaphor for the narrator’s philosophical journey through […]
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