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...What most customers don’t realize is the text messaging industry is a cash cow for cell operators, and few understand how cheap text messages should rightfully be. It would not be an exaggeration to call text messages the biggest racket in telecom history...
...mother struggles to raise two children and pay the bills all on her own. Kevin struggles to find a sense of self in a foster home where he feels out of place. And Malcolm is the most alone, unable to communicate with those who love him and unable to understand much of the world around him. The town, too, is isolated: it is not too far from the city of San Diego, but it is far removed from the minds of those who live in that city. The characters and the settings of Silver’s novel...
...heartbroken songs even more moving, as in the acoustic track “Doing Fine,” when Swaby begs an ex-lover, “Please don’t tell me you love me / Leave me / Don’t fuck with my mind / Try to understand like you’re a good friend of mine / ’Cause I’m doing fine.” In a contemporary music scene filled with girls like “Colleen,” it’s nice to hear a band bringing heartbreak...
...never heard any of my classmates say that they don’t see movies, don’t read novels, or don’t like art, but when it comes to the idiot box, the claws come out. And in some ways, I can understand why. Television is home to some of the worst indulgences in American culture. It’s peppered with ads. It’s oddly time-sucking in a way other entertainments aren’t; no one’s ever looked up suddenly to find they’ve wasted eight...
...explores the dynamics of a violent and unstable society through the eyes of his child narrator, Djata, who is constantly attempting to come to terms with the world. Dragomán is able to bring the reader along on Djata’s journey and create a deeper understanding of Djata’s world. Though not necessarily an original conceit, it is a well executed examination of one boy’s life in a repressive unnamed country. Dragomán presents the reader with a world in which Djata’s father is taken away without notice...