Posts tagged Literature
Birth of a Thesis: Over and Done With
If you detect some annoyance in my final piece about me and my BA thesis, I can tell you that before sitting down to write this, I chased my suitcase from Helsinki-Vantaa to Espoo as someone mistook mine for theirs. Moving on! It’s been a while now since I handed in my essay and the [...]
BTSB Book Review: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Nort...
“We’re outlawed, outgunned, outnumbered and on the run. Clusterfuck Central as you would say.” -Mikhailo Tarasov to Sergeant-Major Hartmann Set in the merciless near-future of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R video games, Balázs Pataki’s novel S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Northern Passage sees daylight under unauspicious stars. After the impressiv [...]
Some Very Poor Opening Passages In Li...
Kids, don’t write these at home! The “embedded-clauses-are-all-the-rage” opening: “He, even though the sex change was far from final, so in fact he was still she, albeit anatomically it was difficult to spot the difference, woke, or would have, but his eyelids felt like they had been glued shut with the kind of glue that [...]
The Brief History Of English Literatu...
DISCLAIMER: This brief account of the literary history of England is solely to praise the Protector of the heavenly kingdom, the might of the Measurer and His mind’s purpose, and is not intended as a vessel of political thought or a marketing ploy.
