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Thursday, August 23, 2012

The Berenstein Bears: We Are Living in Our Own Parallel Universe

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When I was growing up, all through elementary school we would watch movies and read books about the Berenstein Bears.  I still even remember...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

On Reading "His Dark Materials"

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I originally wrote this February, 2011 on a different blog, but decided to repost it here. Lyra and Iorek This week I read the entire...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

I Hope It Doesn't Have Gears on the Cover...

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Note from Reece: this is a guest post by one of my friends, explaining his position in a running debate between ourselves. That's how ...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Sorting Hat Is a Jerk

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I've posted before summarizing, briefly, why Harry Potter is terrible.  Essentially, it is this: she took a kids-book fairytale world ...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Fantasy Fiction is Broken

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A friend of mine recently "read" The Sad Tale of the Brother's  Grossbart .  I use scare quotes, because he put the book down...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises: Batman Punches Criminals

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Last night, I went to see The Dark Knight Rises. I don't normally go to see movies, because most of them are simply terrible.  Typica...
Friday, July 20, 2012

From The Magicians

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I recently read The Magicians  by Lev Grossman.  The story is sort of a commentary/deconstruction of childhood fantasy novels, especially Ha...
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