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Book Review: ’11/22/63′
Despite being a avid reader, I’d made it a rule to avoid Stephen King for some reason. I mistakenly believed I should have been reading King when I was in my teens and missed
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Book Review: ‘Killing Lincoln’
Several years ago, James Frey brought the literary world to the forefront of the national conversation (a rare feat, indeed) thanks to a culmination of factors including A Million Little Pieces being part of
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Book Review: ‘The Postmortal’
When you’re a child, mortality is a thoroughly confusing prospect. For one thing, you don’t learn much about sickness when you are young. In a sense, your sheltered from mortality, only vaguely aware of
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Book Review: ‘Summer of Shadows’
Before Cleveland was ‘The Mistake by the Lake,’ the once proud city was ‘The Best Location in the Nation.’ For several generations, the city of Cleveland has been known nationally as a place of
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Book Review: ‘Ready Player One’
In the early 1990s, you couldn’t go to a major mall without seeing a virtual reality ‘arcade’. To today’s youth, these VR machines would look like ENIAC; they were bulky, uncomfortable and to top
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Marvel to Publish ‘Civil War’ Novel Adaptation
Beginning in June 2012, Marvel Comics will be publishing some of their most well known story arcs as novels. No, I did not forget to type “graphic” in that last sentence, these are some
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My Favorite Books of 2011
As an avid reader, I am always looking for the next thing to catch my interest, but with a stack of books in my bedroom two feet high, and a infinitely taller list in
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Book Review: ‘The Whore of Akron’
When I told my fiancé how excited I was to start reading Scott Raab’s new book, The Whore of Akron, she asked me what LeBron did to deserve a book with such a disparaging
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Book Review: ‘The Marriage Plot’
Love triangles are about as common on college campuses as empty plastic cups. In The Marriage Plot, a new work of fiction by Jeffrey Eugendies (The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex), we are treated to an
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Book Review: ‘Sex on the Moon’
Thad Roberts had everything a young genius could ask for: An internship at NASA, the respect of his fellow scientists and a foxy, brilliant girlfriend. It wasn’t enough, Roberts wanted more. Sex on the
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Book Review: ‘Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America’
If you are like me, a child growing up in the late 1980’s and early 90’s, you’ve spent countless hours hanging out with a middle-aged, mustachioed plumber. Finally, our friend gets his due in
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Book Review: Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Damned’
Damned finds Chuck Palahniuk’s 13-year-old heroin Madison Spencer dead and in hell for nebulous reasons. Yet, rather than being broken by her damnation, the precocious Maddie seeks to make the most out of her
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