okay, I haven't been blogging, but I have been reading.
Neuromancer--I read this because of a stray remark Geoffrey Winthrop-Young made last semester: if you really want to understand the media theory of Friedrich Kittler, read this book--it's about computers learning to talk to other computers. I found this element of the book to be most fascinating, and I was left wanting more. The humans of the book disappointed. It was hard to appreciate the sheer inventiveness and world-building of the book because many of the ideas have become commonplace, and several elements, like the Rastafarians in space, feel trite.
Men's Style by Russell Brand (i think)--I know nothing about men's fashion, which is exactly why I was reading the book, the only one of that subject available at the public library. It was both informative and amusing. Brand is a good prose stylist who knows how to repeat himself without wearing out his welcome. As I struggle towards a fashion sense, this book has already come in handy several times.
Chiggers by Hope Larson--There are only two things wrong with this book about a teenaged girl at camp. The first is that it abandons the color of Larson's earlier works. The second is the the typography grates. Otherwise this is an outstanding comic about adolescence that felt painfully familiar to me, a boy who has never been to summer camp. The biting dialogue, the casual lies, the quizzical expressions all hit their marks.
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