Wednesday, December 2, 2009
In video game jargon, a “completionist” is a player who will continue playing a game until they have finished every level, found every secret, maximized their final score and have (essentially) consumed every single experience that a game has to offer.
Book Completionist
Last night, I was on Amazon looking for gifts for the coming holiday and [...]
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I’ve been on a Murakami kick. I just read after the quake his collection of short stories. I read after dark, too.
This passage from the short story “Super-frog Saves Tokyo” in the collection after the quake keeps coming back to me:
“That’s fine, Mr. Katagiri. It’s better that you don’t remember. The whole terrible [...]
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Monday, February 16, 2009
I started reading The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde over the weekend.
It’s been years since I’ve read anything by him. It might have been high school or college…
Life and experience both say that I won’t read this thing cover-to-cover.
Other than the best-known stuff, like Dorian Gray, does anybody have suggestions about things [...]
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I’m really ambivalent about the blog/book, Stuff White People Like or “SWPL“.
A few friends mention it each time the site is updated, got copies of the book for Christmas, and can’t understand why I’m not entertained by it. While there is some circular humor at work that I admire, it’s not particularly funny [...]
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
I felt the urge to read Salinger last week. I ran through Nine Stories and got through “Franny” in Franny and Zooey. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenter is next.
Salinger gets a bad rap as being kid’s lit, mainly because of The Catcher in the Rye and all the associations it has with [...]
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