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Reading List, February 2014

INHERENT VICE // Thomas Pynchon // C+

THE BLACK BEETLE: NO WAY OUT // Francesco Francavilla // A-

THE X-FILES CLASSICS, VOL. 1 // Petrucha and Adlard // B

THE SCARLET LETTER // Nathaniel Hawthorne // A [of course]

ANDREW'S BRAIN // E. L. Doctorow // A-

RAGE // Richard Bachman // B-

LEAVING THE SEA // Ben Marcus // B+

THE LAST COLONY // John Scalzi // B+

SPOCK MUST DIE! // James Blish // C+

#reading list #lit #Dark Horse Comics #Star Trek #Pynchon #X-Files #IDW #Stephen King #John Scalzi #Ben Marcus #E. L. Doctorow

Reading List, January 2014

2010: ODYSSEY TWO // Arthur C. Clarke // A-

HELLBOY: LIBRARY EDITION, VOLUME 3 // Mike Mignola // A-

ABE SAPIEN: DARK AND TERRIBLE and THE NEW RACE OF MAN // Mike Mignola, et al. // B

BALTIMORE: A PASSING STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES // Mike Mignola, et al. // B+

2061: ODYSSEY THREE // Arthur C. Clarke // C+

3001: THE FINAL ODYSSEY // Arthur C. Clarke // B+

THE BOUNTY HUNTERS // Elmore Leonard // B+

ALL THAT IS // James Salter // A-

B.P.R.D. HELL ON EARTH: A COLD DAY IN HELL // Mignola, et al. // B

#reading list #lit #books #Hellboy #Dark Horse #BPRD #Mike Mignola #Arthur C. Clarke #2001 #James Salter #Elmore Leonard

DECEPTIVE PRACTICE: THE MYSTERIES AND MENTORS OF RICKY JAY

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2012, dir. Molly Bernstein, Netflix Instant

#2014 Viewing Log #movies #magic

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

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1957, dir. Billy Wilder, Netflix Instant

#2014 Viewing Log #movies #Agatha Christie

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(I’d love it if you’d reblog this.) I’ve purchased one item at American Apparel in my lifetime—last week in Los Angeles, when I realized I hadn’t packed anything to swim in. I asked the cashier if I could return the swim trunks in New York. She told me I could return them for credit, but not a refund. I didn’t have a chance to go swimming in Los Angeles, so I brought the unworn swimming trunks to a store in New York. The cashier told me she couldn’t accept them, because they don’t accept returns on swimwear. I called the customer service line. They told me that it doesn’t matter what their employee told me, because “there’s no way of proving what she said.”