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October 12th, 2007 | 1 Comment
Survivor has always been pretty hokey in the way that it tries to incorporate “traditional” and “historical” elements of the area into its challenges, but I don’t think I ever appreciated just how hokey until this season.
Book Review: Bowling Alone
September 23rd, 2005 | No Comments
Author: Robert Putnam
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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The topic of social change and civic engagement is one that is infinitely interesting to me, so you’d think that I wouldn’t have gotten so bored by this book. In his effort to be as thorough as possible in making his point, Putnam completely forgot about things like narrative structure (which, yes, nonfiction books should still have some semblance of narrative structure).
