Archive for the ‘Books/Magazines’ Category
Monday, July 14th, 2008
Google brought Christian Lander, the viral blogger turned book deal author of Stuff White People Like, to speak. For me, it was fascinating to see how fast his blog and popularity skyrocketed due to the Internet. He claims he only started the blog after having a conversation about The Wire ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
A few coworkers this morning were doing a bit of Stanford bashing, talking about the neo-conservative bastion that is the Hoover Institution. No doubt this is justified, as the Hoover Institution is well-funded and shielded think-tank, which is a complete antithesis of the liberal-minded student body. What makes the Hoover ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
In the effort to recoup the massive amount of money I have poured into textbooks over the past four years, I've been selling books on half.com. It's really easy - just type in the ISBN of each book, set a price, and that's it! No need to monitor ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
J had raved to me about reading "The Inheritance of Loss." In an effort to be erudite, I had purchased the book and started to read it last week. I unfortunately had trouble getting through it, ending up on around page 100 after a few hours of half-hearted ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
To occupy my newfound freetime, I've taken up reading. In the past month I've read Prep, The Search, The Headmaster Ritual, HP7, and the Time Traveler's Wife. All excellent books. Well, the Headmaster Ritual was the worse of them all. I'm now onto The Inheritance of ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2007
So yes, I finished Harry Potter. I don't want to give anyway any spoilers to the vast majority of people who haven't read the book, but suffice it to say, it was much different than previous versions, although not in a bad way, but in one that just made ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Of course the internet is buzzing with spoilers, activity, etc of the upcoming HP7. Myself included, will be getting the book as soon as possible and reading it this weekend. Hopefully the next update will be my own impressions of the book.
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