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This is, in title, an homage to a fantastic Talking Heads song and, in substance, a personal reflection/revue of the books that I read.




Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Everybody has their own website

Well, not so long ago everybody I knew was in a band.  It was always some lame ensemble of garage dwellers scratching out some uninspired cover of Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Rancid, or some other forgettable band from my youth.  Now, we all have the internet to rely on for our anonymous outlet of rage, angst, and occasionally pleasure with the things we encounter.  Only seven years too late, I have created an outlet for all of my thoughts that concern the greatest commodity known to mankind, the written word.  Specifically, I choose to examine the novel.  I value your input to the extent that I will do my best to tell you why I either agree wholeheartedly or why you are desperately wrong.  Cheers, and lets have fun...

1 comment:

  1. Like it or not, the very first book I will be writing about is Carson McCullers' "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter." I have never read this before, yet it seems to be a commonly assigned title for High School/College Lit. courses. I feel that I should add this to the literary cannon and then attempt to write an article that digests the novel in order to humbly discern its literary value. Here goes...

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