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Review: How Music Works
How Music Works by David Byrne My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is not a book about how the mind interprets music or why we make music from an evolutionary point of view (although the topic is explored in the last chapter). It is probably more suitably titled How Music is Made – although…
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Review: Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
Don’t Know Much About Mythology: Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned by Kenneth C. Davis My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is a great primer on mythology. Although it spends a lot of time with the myths we are very familiar with (middle east,…
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Review: Fight Club
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk My rating: 5 of 5 stars It’s been nearly 15 years since I first saw Fight Club, the movie. Since then I’ve seen it front-to-back maybe twice. But it really stuck with me. As I listened to this audiobook I found myself wonder when this or that scene would come…
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Review: Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present
Comics: A Global History, 1968 to the Present by Dan Mazur My rating: 4 of 5 stars Disclosure: I received this book as part of the Goodreads.com First Reads program in which the winner recieves a copy of the book in exchange for a review. (It’s slightly more complicated than that, see the Goodreads First…
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Last.fm Listening Trends 2014 Q3
This quarter was a mix of new music, continuing to listen to my music in alphabetical order (by artist), and whatever I happened to listen to on my phone. And that resulted in a little something like this (a lot more ties than usual): 1. The Beatles (243 listens) – For the first time in…
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Review: Escalator
Escalator by Brandon S. Graham My rating: 3 of 5 stars Escalator is a series of short comics, all by Brandon Graham. Although I routinely read short science fiction stories and anthologies, it’s much rarer for me to come across comics anthologies. This collection contains some of Brandon’s oldest non-porn comics. I think it’s an…
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Review: Complete Multiple Warheads Trade Paperback
Complete Multiple Warheads TP by Brandon S. Graham My rating: 5 of 5 stars You can read what I thought about the story here: http://www.comicpow.com/2013/06/26/mu… What this trade adds to the Image Comics series is the first issue from Oni Press which sets up some of the characters as well as why they leave the…
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Review: To Be or Not To Be
To Be or Not To Be: A Chooseable-Path Adventure by Ryan North My rating: 3 of 5 stars The book was a fun read. I first did Hamlet Sr, then Ophelia, and then Hamlet. I decided to go with the Shakespeare option each time, essentially turning the book into a modern English version of Hamlet…
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Review: The Princess Bride
The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern’s Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure by William Goldman My rating: 4 of 5 stars I first saw the movie adaptation in middle school. The youth ministry pastor decided to share it with us. I fell in love immediately. When I came across it again in college, I…
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Review: Zombies vs Unicorns
Zombies vs. Unicorns by Holly Black My rating: 4 of 5 stars Reading this inspired a discussion in the Goodreads sword and laser group about what makes fiction YA. This book has a lot of adult stuff. Depending on your views you may wish to restrict it to older teens. (contains, among other things: mentions…
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Review: The Martian
The Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 3 of 5 stars On the third mission to Mars things go horribly wrong and Mark is left for dead. It seems like a pretty grim premise, but this book was a very fun read. I love Mark’s logs, which are – essentially – Mark’s inner monologue. This…
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Review: Zealot
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book has answered so many questions I had growing up reading the Bible. Assuming the acceptance of what the gospels said Jesus did- a lot of it is now put in perspective by understanding the world…
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Review: A Once Crowded Sky
A Once Crowded Sky by Tom King My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you love or have ever loved reading comics, you need to read this book. It is essentially a love letter to comic book fans. This is a world in which the characters are slightly self-aware. They don’t really know they’re in…
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Review: Walrus: Brandon Graham’s All Bum Album
Walrus: Brandon Graham’s All Bum Album by Brandon S. Graham My rating: 5 of 5 stars If you’re purchased comic artists’ sketch books before, you probably have a good idea of what you’re going to get. However, unlike other sketch books I’ve seen, this one contains little mini-comics scattered among the more traditional sketches. It’s…
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It’s the First of MAY!!
It’s the First of MAY!! The original version of the song is quite, quite dirty and vulgar. But there are clean versions.