Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Sometimes, you realize you’re just expecthing things to be ‘just so.’ You want your knives on the left, forks in the middle, and spoons on the right. You want your peanut butter to be unnaturally smooth with oil on top, because as illogical as it is, you just plain want it that way. Difficult and [...]

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Holes, by Louis Sachar Kids book, too simple, too predictable. However, it remained fun and kept my interest. Yeah, read into that all you want, but it made for a fun quick read. I can see why it became popular.

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A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K. Dick This one annoyed me. No, I haven’t seen the film. But the whole thing probably makes more sense to stoners. There was the interesting “cop spying on himself” thing that could have been better. Then the whole “you were double double double crossed” thing weaved too deep and [...]

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Coraline, by Neil Gaiman Now, if you’ve read any Neil Gaiman, you’ll realize, the guy is about 20 degrees off of level. This is all sorts of awesome. Let me tell you why. If you read some of my previous posts, you’ll know that I’ve read enough to see some annoying patterns in books, or [...]

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“Fire”, which is in the same world as Graceling, kinda. It might be that I’m just too much of a guy for this book. I expected something far different than what I found while reading. I never quite reached the point of suspended disbelief here. The heroine is too perfect, the stupid love triangle thing [...]

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Absurdistan. I don’t remember why I picked it up, but the rambling pointless nature of it caused me to put it down. Sure, there were funny quips, but not enough to hold my attention.

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The Hunger Games series. Holy. Cow. I hope this lady keeps writing. At the end of the first book, I was entranced. At the end of the third, I cried. This is some seriously good writing. I’m going back to these again sometime soon.

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Gee Dave, why have you not been posting so often? Well, I’ve been changing jobs. The specifics of that are another post, but mainly right now I’m fussing about with commute options now that my drive is not only longer, but goes down one of the central traffic corridors of the bay area: 101 Northbound [...]

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