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	<title>The GrogMonkey &#187; Criticism and Reviews</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Sucker Punch&#8221;; the perfect postmodern flick</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-03-30/sucker-punch-the-perfect-postmodern-flick</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-03-30/sucker-punch-the-perfect-postmodern-flick#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 05:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong: when I say &#8220;perfect,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean Sucker Punch is a perfect film in general. On the contrary. It&#8217;s a bad film! The script is spare, uninspired, and tedious, and the acting (with the slight exception of supporting actors Oscar Isaac as &#8220;Blue&#8221; and Carla Gugino as &#8220;Dr. Vera,&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Freedom(tm)</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-02-20/review-freedomtm</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-02-20/review-freedomtm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freedom(tm) is the sequel to Daniel Suarez&#8217;s brilliant Daemon. It&#8217;s going to be impossible for me to review Freedom(tm) without spoilering Daemon to some degree. Daemon told the story of a genius online game designer who over years set up a hidden system within the Internet to awaken upon news of his death. That&#8217;s where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Altered Carbon</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-02-20/review-altered-carbon</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-02-20/review-altered-carbon#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I&#8217;m on a roll now, I just finished Richard K. Morgan&#8217;s Altered Carbon this week, making it two books in a month! *sigh* Yeah, I&#8217;m not impressed either. Back in the good ol&#8217; days of jr. and high school and undergrad, it was nothing for me to read three novels every two weeks. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: The Crying of Lot 49</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-01-13/review-the-crying-of-lot-49</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-01-13/review-the-crying-of-lot-49#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s The Crying of Lot 49. Finally. Pynchon is a paragon of postmodern fiction, often named in the same breath as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and Don DeLillo. In fact, reading &#8216;Lot 49, I was heavily reminded of Breakfast of Champions (which I read back during High School, so the memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I gots books!</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-01-08/i-gots-books</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2011-01-08/i-gots-books#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://grogmonkey.org/blog/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hooray for books! Hooray for holiday gift cards! Thanks to family members&#8217; generosity with Barnes &#38; Noble gift cards, I recently acquired a stack of books I&#8217;ve been pining for for months, and in some cases, years. Every once in a while I&#8217;d visit them on my Amazon Wish List and coo, &#8220;one day, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>io9 suggested reading list.</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2010-07-08/io9-suggested-reading-list</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2010-07-08/io9-suggested-reading-list#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[io9.com recently (well, OK, a month several months ago &#8212; I&#8217;m a little lot late) published their &#8220;20 Best Science Fiction Books Of The Decade&#8221; list. This really is a compelling list of SF over the last ten years, much of it dealing with issues of late postmodern culture and our sense of rootlessness and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dies the Book</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2010-01-03/dies-the-book</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2010-01-03/dies-the-book#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a new year&#8217;s resolution, I&#8217;m hoping to do more quick, literary themed writing, i.e.: book reviews and the like. I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of books lately (e.g.: the entire Vlad Taltos series, again) and would like to review them. (Actually, I&#8217;m in the early process of writing a scholarly paper on Steven Brust&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears; redux.</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-07-06/ruby-slippers-golden-tears-redux</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-07-06/ruby-slippers-golden-tears-redux#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears (edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling) when it first came out in 1995. I bought and read&#8230; no, devoured all of the collections of &#8220;modern fairy tales&#8221; when I was an undergrad those early 90s &#8212; Snow White, Blood Red, Black Thorn, White Rose, etc. Now, the series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fanon and its Review from a Postmodern Perspective</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-04-09/fanon-and-its-review-from-a-postmodern-perspective</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-04-09/fanon-and-its-review-from-a-postmodern-perspective#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fanon and its Review from a Postmodern Perspective &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;In the spirit of full disclosure, it must be said that I have not read John Edgar Wideman&#8217;s Fanon; so, it will be assumed throughout this essay that what the NPR book reviewer, Maureen Corrigan, has to say about it is accurate for the basis of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ubiquitous and Panasonic Kipple&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-01-29/the-ubiquitous-and-panasonic-kipple</link>
		<comments>http://grogmonkey.org/blog/2008-01-29/the-ubiquitous-and-panasonic-kipple#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GrogMonkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ubiquitous and Panasonic Kipple: Tracing the Consumption of Death, from Philip K. Dick to Don DeLillo&#8217;s White Noise The original title for Don DeLillo&#8217;s White Noise (1984) was, but for a legal injunction, supposed to be Panasonic (Hearst), a neologism that roughly translates as â€œall soundâ€ or â€œever present sound.â€ While â€œwhite noiseâ€ is [...]]]></description>
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