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  • Decembarsoom: The Last Half of the Book

    (originally posted here) The Last Half of the Book (Chapters 19-28) What a wild group of chapters (and a wild few weeks for me—sorry for the delay, dear readers). The book seems to veer in three or four directions from the midsection to the end, as if Burroughs was unsure what he wanted to do…

  • Decembarsoom: Week 3 Recap

    (originally posted here) Chapters 12-18 Is it just me, or does it feel like this book still hasn’t really started? I have certainly enjoyed all of the exposition we’ve received in the last seven chapters—the impenetrable wooing customs that Dejah Thoris expects and John Carter understands about as well as us, Sola’s parentage, the political…

  • Decembarsoom: Week 2 Recap

    (originally posted here) For such an upstanding southern gentleman, I couldn’t help notice that maybe John Carter is just a little bit racist. He keeps excusing some of the barbaric activities of the Green Men of Mars by saying, in essence, that they’re just not smart. And they only love killing. And they’re irredeemable barbarians.…

  • Decembarsoom: Week 1 Recap

    (originally posted here and here) What an introduction! Edgar Rice Burroughs goes for the classic Literary Agent Hypothesis framing story (“I found this story and here I am publishing it for you”) and basically says that John Carter is immortal. Pretty ostentatious way to start the story! I love cowboy comics. I’m a longtime fan of Jonah Hex, Bat…

  • Decembarsoom: Reading Schedule and Sources

    Reading Schedule (originally posted here) We’re starting on a Thursday, but the reading week will be Monday through Saturday with a recap here on Sunday afternoons. Thursday, December 1 – Sunday, December 4: Introduction through the end of chapter 4 December 5-11: Chapters 5-11 December 12-18: Chapters: 12-18 December 19-25: Chapters 19-24 (that includes a day…

  • Impossible Pop 2010

    It’s 2011 and I’d like to talk (some more) about my favorite music from 2010. Last year was possibly the year I followed music the closest. I used my emusic subscription to the fullest and I was keeping up on all the big trends. Honestly, it was kinda overwhelming. I don’t plan to follow music…

  • Favorite Albums of 2010

    It’s my birthday, so I’d like discuss the albums I liked last year, no matter that it’s been 2011 for over a month. 1. Beach House – Teen Dream Slow and soothing sometimes, rocking other times. Brilliant the whole way through. I have trouble talking about this record without using words like “perfect” or “absolutely…

  • DecENDER: Chapters 14-15 Roundup (Week 5)

    Originally posted here. The long-awaited… The last two chapters of this book seem to be about four chapters long. I mean, they move along so quickly that you’re hardly aware of any chapter breaks, but the information in those chapters is dense. It probably doesn’t help that time is so severely compressed in the conclusion…

  • DecENDER: Chapters 12-13 Roundup (Week 4)

    Originally posted here. How brutal are these two chapters? Ender’s Dragon army is forced to fight more unfair battles until Ender stops caring and his army is able to win through sheer force of his apathy. Then they are disbanded. Ender is attacked in the bathroom by a much larger, much angrier boy. Ender survives.…

  • DecENDER: Chapters 9-11 Roundup (Week 3)

    Originally posted here. Peter and Val: bloggers. I mean, that’s pretty much it, right? They’re going from lively comment-makers to bloggers to columnists on the future-world Drudge Report and Huffington Post. They’re doing what some people assume Glenn Beck and the Fox News set are doing, but in a way would make Glenn Beck cry with…

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