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The shining review so far (or the benefits of a great narration)

I have recently rebegun reading stephen king's the shining and I think I may be the first person to say this but wow what a good book. I say "rebegun" because i started reading it many years ago and did not really get too engaged but I finished misery and loved the way the story was told so I wanted to read more king classics.

From the first chapter, you already get a sense of Jack Torrence's character and personality. He already hates ullman for untold reasons, his demeanor, his words. But as we are reading Jack's thoughts, we are engrossed. It is third person limited but by being so focused upon jack's perspective we are revealed a more complicated view than if it were omniscient.

And even wendy is told in this way with her dilemma with her mom's opinion of her as a wife and mother and how she feels about jack's friend al who is a pretty bad dude and awful influence. Like you really feel awful for wendy she should definitely divorce this deadbeat jack. He is so much worse than in the film because in the film, he stops drinking after he hurts danny. Here he does no such thing. He drinks basically even more, he just covers it up with coffee.

I am eagerly awaiting for the spooky parts and cannot wait to read more of this classic.

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The suburban dystopia of Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies. The perfect thing for a contrarian teenager to watcg, as I did, because of the frequent snubs at authority and Donnie's angst. Who cannot relate to those things? Except most people's angst does not stem from the neglect of our medications causing hallucinations of a bunny suited man predicting the end of the world, at least I hope not. But does Donnie Darko betray the fear at the heart of the movie, that our destinies are not set?

In his class with the evangelical lady, the teacher forces Donnie to place any situation on his card into two distinct binaries. These situations are social problems or moments of personal failing and Donnie cannot see how stealing can only be placed into the label of fear or love. The teacher wants him to do this to force the children's understanding of the world into two binaries but Donnie correctly sees through this facade. Reality is malleable and morality can be arbitrary, whatever we are told to do is the right thing. And when Donnie discovers his hallucinations were written about in a book called "The philosophy of time travel" by Roberta Sparrow, Grandma Death as the town calls her, he is overjoyed.

He asks his teacher if there is some way that seeing your destiny manifested in front of you, like an orb would affect if you would live it out? That you become your own God, and the teacher refuses to answer, because of the mention of God. But by the end, Donnie has lived out his predetermined destiny. He dies in the plane crash exactly when Frank the bunny said he would. So did Donnie make his own destiny by following it? Or did he change it by being able to see the truth?

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The Devil's Reign series by Chip Zdarsky and Marco Chichetto is shaping up to be a miraculous comic achievement, a daredevil crossover that doesn't suck. Shadowland is cited as a lowpoint in the daredevil saga. While personally I have yet to read the book, the concept of matt getting control of the hand in order to establish an end to random violent crime is interesting. It could be a nuanced take on the grey morality of the law and what counts as crime and how it is not always what is bad. But matt is just taken over by a demon at the end, so he has not truly become corrupt.

But in Devil's Reign, a similar instance is taking place, however I feel it is being executed quite well. Kingpin in issue 4 has been mayor and is seeking reelection, however he is using a supernatural force to enhance his own goals, the purple children's walking stick. This allows him to influence others such as Typhoid Mary's memories. And he uses it to trigger a restoration of his own knowledge of daredevil's alter ego. Part civil war, part shadowland, this event really knows how to hype up the kingpin as daredevil's classic bad guy as well as working as a truly exciting team up. No longer hero vs hero, the bad guys are on the side of the law such as us agent and rhino being thunderbolts under command of mayor kingpin. But the street level heroes truly feel united, with luke cage running for mayor and the champions and tony stark working with daredevil as well as ben reilly spiderman. Truly exciting stuff I'm loving this event

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Batman the Knight? More like Batman the Good Comic

I have just finished reading issue 2 of Chip Zdarsky’s Batman the Knight comic. I was intrigued greatly by the premise of the comic and the rest of it does not disappoint. Very little has actually been explored of pre year one Batman. The Batman of year one has many of his skills already learned, and the year one of the title refers to his first year returning to Gotham. Bruce has already equipped himself with the how, he just needs to know the what and the why. In The Knight, we start to learn all about how Bruce developed the how of his war on crime as well as the why.

A younger, inexperienced and awkward Bruce is so entertaining to see. It reminds me of Bruce from The cartoon The Batman, in which he has not become jaded by the war on crime and is still a person beneath the cowl. A Batman who has not become enveloped and consumed by the cowl and persona is much more interesting to me than a Batman who is all mission and nothing more. An inexperienced Bruce still has learning to do, any mistakes he makes can inform his later actions, such as when young Bruce kisses The Gray Spirit, the pre year one Catwoman analog he has met. A kiss with a beautiful, older woman he has feelings for is a moment of embarrassment because it is so familiar. The stone faced warrior superhero would never do such a thing or be caught doing such a thing, because he is not human. Bruce Wayne is human. And this story showing the mistakes that Bruce makes on his journey make him to be so interesting. Which is why Arkham Origins continues to be underrated to me for the same reasons. Though that would be controversial.

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First Blog Post

The struggles of writing a blog post while tired and exhausted from applying for jobs. I have spent the last several days either at work or on my phone at home hurriedly applying for any vaguely english major sounding job I can locate. Many of them require experience and blog writing counts as experience. So I have begun the process of cataloguing my thoughts in my tumblr. This way I have a process of regularly working out the writing part of my brain as well as some manner of posting them somewhere. In these subsequent blog posts I hope to document my thoughts in a well thought out and entertaining manner. I shall post about movies I like, things that piss me off, cause me confusion and general questions I have. Hope you enjoy.