The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation: Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux
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The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the...
Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India: Globalizing Muscular Nationalism
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Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an...
Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream
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A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis...
Zombies and Sexuality: Essays on Desire and the Living Dead
Steve Jones and Shaka McGlotten
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Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever...
Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
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In the eighteenth century, Shakespeare became indisputably the most popular English dramatist....
David McK (3569 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books
Sep 19, 2021
Have also seen the movie mentioned below. It was just OK; not great.
<original 2016 review>
Prior to reading this, I'd heard good things about it, and was aware that - like seemingly nearly all of the current Young Adult Dystopian novels - there was a movie for it in the pipeline, by none other than Spielberg himself.
Set in the near-future, I found this to be like a cross between the Bruce Willis movie Surrogates (in that nearly everybody seems to live their life vicariously through other means), The Matrix (cyber reality) and maybe even a bit of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the MacGuffin that gets the plot rolling). it probably helps that - unlike the characters - I actually *was* a kid in the 80s, and so get plenty of the various pop-culture references made.
Plenty, but not all - this, remember, is set in America, so leans more towards the American or Japanese spectrum of popular culture than European.
How To Destroy America in Three Easy Steps
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A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build—and...
Becoming a Marihuana User
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OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a long way since its seedy days in...
Tokyo Geek's Guide
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This is a fun, personal account of places and things to do in Tokyo, Japan, when it comes to manga,...
Gulf Coast Highway
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US 90-the Gulf Coast Highway-is one of the major east-west roads in the Southern United States,...