“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins

Over the past few months, many of my friends and relatives have told me that “The Hunger Games” is fantastic and is something that I absolutely must read.  I’ve been meaning to read it for a while, especially after the whole Darkness Too Visible controversy last summer.  As the movie is coming out next month, I [...]

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A Foray Into Science Fiction

Recently, I realized that as a whole I’ve neglected to read much science fiction.  This may, in fact, be the understatement of the year. Oh, I’ve read some classics, but I’ve never really counted them as sci-fi.  Zamyatin’s “We,” Orwell’s “1984,” and Huxley’s “Brave New World” all seemed to me to focus so much on [...]

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