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...remarkable since his subjects—what urban geographers call TOADS (Temporary Obsolete Abandoned Derelict Sites)—are traditionally considered unaesthetic and unnoteworthy. It is ironic, then, that the elements that seduce viewers are precisely those that Brouws aims to portray as inherently destructive to our culture.The book??s three chapters—“The Highway Landscape,” “The Franchised Landscape” and “The Discarded Landscape”—are a clear indicator of the artist’s analytic agenda. They present...
...slightly extreme, and may put off some readers initially, but Solove backs his point by highlighting several case studies, including the Star Wars Kid, that illustrate the dangers of one of the modern age’s greatest tools. That focus on specific cases is far and away the book??s greatest strength. Rather than simply warning readers about possible scenarios, Solove shows first-hand the lives that have been ruined, combining descriptions of the original events with verbatim reproductions of comments posted by various bloggers throughout the Web. Most students have been told to be wary...
...philosophy (#8). Clearly, he is in no way a pretentious asshole. And just to drive this point home, he pops in his favorite DVD, “Amelie.” (Yale’s #1, Harvard’s #6). He flips listlessly through his favorite book?? “Harry Potter,” also Harvard’s #1—and his second-favorite book, “Pride and Prejudice” (Harvard’s #4), and thinks about how much he enjoyed reading “Lolita...
...From the advice at the end of the chapters, Watson draws the book??s title, “Avoid Boring People.” Watson gives this piece of advice twice in the book, the first time advising people to avoid others who are boring, and the second time advising people not to be boring themselves. It’s hard to help feeling that Watson himself could do better on the second count...
...reader on a number of different levels, creating a poetic collage with a chaos of words and scattered syntax and punctuation. Although a bit difficult to follow at first, the inconsistent punctuation and spacing that characterizes Valentine’s writing ultimately proves to be one of the book??s prime pleasures. Many of the poems found within “Little Boat” end with an elongated dash or no punctuation at all, which allows the reader to drift onto the next piece. Indeed, many of Valentine’s poems seem to be incomplete fragments...