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Catching up on 2012… Books

And… these are the books I read this year. As a note, I think I’ve read more books in the past three weeks than I did in the rest of the year. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic … Continue reading

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Movies 2011 #3 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest

I had high hopes that The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, the film, would be better than The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest, the book. It wasn’t, really. My problem with the book is that it was way … Continue reading

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Books 2011 #1 V.

I’m never going to get tired of reading Thomas Pynchon’s books. Sure, they can be tough, but the payoff is always well worth any effort it takes to work your way through the incoherent bits of madness. Actually, V., an … Continue reading

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Books 2010 #19 The Fall

I’m not a sexy vampire fan. Good thing there are no sexy vampires in The Fall. Nope, instead it’s full of gross, vomiting vampires. Have I mentioned blood worms? Blood worms. Enjoy.

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Books 2010 #18 The Strain

There are no sexy vampires in The Strain. These are Lovecraftian-space-virus-throbbing-blood-worm-parasite vampires and pretty much everything about them is creepy and disgusting. Hell yes.

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