I thought I would give a rundown of some of the books I have been reading recently. In the last couple weeks, I have been interested in non-fiction reading.  I go through phases were I am suddenly really into books on different sociological issues. For instance, the hikikomori book I read awhile ago, and my fascination [...]

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Last night, I started and finished Freakonomics. It was awesome and hilarious. I have been reading the freakonomics blog for a year or so – and I decided I finally needed to read the book. I enjoy Stephen Levitt’s discussion of things that I never thought about. I especially liked the chapters about Chicago gangs. Sudhir [...]

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I thoroughly enjoyed the new Harry Potter. I just finished it. barely 24 hours after I bought it from borders(I had originally ordered it from amazon, but it was delayed by skinnyCorp being closed). I was a reading machine.
It was a good ending. Enough complexity to make things interesting. It was good. If you like [...]

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I realized tonight that the final harry potter book is coming out in a week. I can’t wait to hole up and finish the entire book in a day again. it took a lot last time. I think this time it may be even for impossible.
We shall see!
[tags]harry potter, books, reading[/tags]

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Yesterday Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favorite authors and a pillar my my upbringing, died. He was 84. I read my first Kurt Vonnegut book, Slapstick,  when I was in 5th grade. It was really amazing. I was quite a bit young for the book, but it was a great follow up to Catch-22. hah. [...]

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I just watched the korean movie oldboy (read this if you want to ruin the movie). Jesus Christ that movie is insane. I was not ready for the endeavor of watching that movie. Quite something. I rather enjoyed it. I am a sucker for movies that have good soundtracks. The story blew my mind. I [...]

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This weekend was pretty fun. I guess most of my weekends are. This one started out super weird. On Friday I was supposed to go to the sox game with Robyn. However, as I was leaving work – there was a tornado. haha. actually I was sitting, finishing up some stuff at work and the air raid/ [...]

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so i accidently spent like 100 hours in the last month reading this goddamn scifi series. It was super annoying. really good stuff. but a really bad author. well not really bad. but not very good. all the reviews said that when reading the series – you can’t wait a very long time between books [...]

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Whew.
I have this secret plan to start blogging more regularly and to up the level of intelligence that go into the posts. I am trying to diminish the amount of “so. i went to a club and then i went to another club and there were people” posts – instead having “so. i went to [...]

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So i haven’t updated in awhile. that is.. i haven’t updated since the beginning of thanksgiving weekend. Oh what a weekend it was. Filled with unimaginable excitment and fun.
On wednesday i arriveed. my mother had made all of us kids (dylan, jon, me, sarah, and my cousins) fur vests. Most of them were wolverine [...]

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