Category: fantastic points of ignorance
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Forbidden by Ted Dekker
This was, by far, the most frustrating novel I’ve read. It comes out tomorrow, for those interested. Don’t get me wrong, Dekker put effort into Forbidden. He’d have to with his “New York Times Bestselling Author” blurb on every book. The book had moments of rapture, these moments where I believed these characters existed out…
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Quick Crits
A full review of Dekker’s new book is coming. Actually, it’s more of a scathing flogging of Dekker’s new book. Until then, here’s what I’ve read/am reading of late: Brutal. Hilarious. Sobering. I won’t read Slaughterhouse Five again, but I’m glad to have read it once. All the happy parts make you cry. All the…
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Lancelot’s Roundtable Miscellany 001
“It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.” OSCAR WILDE In the spirit of Schott’s Original Miscellany, here’s what I’m Literating from the past month… Yale Art Students Website Background: Oprahed (originally @ the Gig) Oprah |Oh•pur•uh| (verb Oprahs, Oprahing; past and past participle Oprahed) [intransitive]: 1. To break down sobbing on…
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Funny MPAA Ratings that Ruin the Ending
What if they got so detailed that it ruined the endings? What if, in the description of why it got a PG-13, the entire movie came out?