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- jun - @J I had the same thought about the rhino. And he’s nearly drowned twice so far. @K I’m glad to...
- K - It was the passage of time between advances that really got me. On the one hand, yeah, Cal is a 15 year old...
- J - Wow. You’ve convinced me I made the right decision in not reading the rest. How many times does he nearly...
- J - True. Like we can’t rebuild our society without some cataclysmic tragedy to motivate us.
- K - I think part of the issue is that so many dystopian books are also post-apocalyptic. It’s often used as...
memoir Archive
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J’s Take on Wil Wheaton’s Memories of the Future, Part 1
Posted on December 20, 2009 | No CommentsI’m so out of things, I never would’ve known Wil Wheaton had another book out if K hadn’t told me. In this book, he collects summaries he wrote for TV Squad of first season Star... -
Memories of the Future, Volume One (Wil Wheaton)
Posted on October 25, 2009 | 6 CommentsThe Plot For many shows, the first season is a season of finding the right voice and settling in; of characters who are still in development and premises that are still undergoing revision. This was... -
The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton: B+
Posted on August 13, 2009 | 3 CommentsFrom the back cover: Readers of Wil Wheaton’s website know that he is a masterful teller of elegant stories about his life. Building on the critical success of Dancing Barefoot and Just a Geek, he... -
The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Wil Wheaton)
Posted on July 4, 2009 | 1 CommentThe Plot A loosely related collection of essays by blogger Wil Wheaton. The theme here seems to be memories. My Thoughts I’ve been a reader of Wheaton’s blog for years, and I read his first two books when they first came out. I anticipate that I’ll continue to read after this one, even though I [...] -
J’s Take on The Happiest Days of Our Lives by Wil Wheaton
Posted on June 7, 2009 | 3 CommentsDid you know you can go to a science fiction convention and tell someone you're going to read one of Wil Wheaton's books and get asked 'Who's that?' For those who don't know, yet somehow manage to be cool anyway, Wil Wheaton was the kid version of the narrator in the movie "Stand By Me", he [...]