December 2011
Textbooks in College
Me: Is it okay if I just buy the 7th edition instead of the 8th? It's over $100 cheaper and it would be great if I could save some money.
Professor: No. They added a comma in the new edition, which is utterly essential to your comprehension of the author's content.
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“It seems to me that if you place music (and books, probably, and films, and...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via dirtydustinhoffmanneedsabath)
Set Fire to the Rain
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Awards season checklist part 2:
50/50
I thought this movie was fantastic and I’m surprised it isn’t getting more Oscar attention outside of the screenplay (probably because it was kind of crass, but still). JGL was great and Seth Rogan was less annoying than I thought he’d be. It made me laugh. It made me emotional. It hit all the right notes. Compared to The Descendants in terms of a dramedy about dealing...
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Awards season checklist:
The Descendants
So much better than I expected it to be. I always find the highly-rated George Clooney movies so overrated, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one and I might have cried a little (just a little). I don’t think I would give it any Oscars, but I still really liked it.
Moneyball
Slightly forgettable, and I thought the ending was kind of abrupt, but I’m a huge...
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“I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not...”
– T. S. Eliot (via bookoasis)
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Currently reading:
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Just finished: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
On deck: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
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“Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist)
I used to be in love with Ayn Rand until I realized how black and white she really is. I was impressionable and felt comforted by her absolute and objective stance. This is probably one of the very few things that I can appreciate from her now, because she’s right.
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“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” (via cultureofresistance)
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