King’s Quest Retrospective: V-VII
It’s always pleasing when a technological advance lines up neatly with a decade, and sure enough, computer games took a huge step forward in 1990. The latter three King’s Quest […]
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King’s Quest Retrospective: I-IV
In honor of the new King’s Quest series now being painfully slowly rolled out, let’s take a retrospective look at one of the most seminal computer game series of the […]
In Defense of YA Literature
Critics are used to being able to state nearly any media-related opinion with some degree of immunity, but there is one pitfall that they fall into with surprising regularity: Making […]
Review: Northanger Abbey
Ah, Jane Austen. We know her, we love her, and we totally misrepresent her. It seems like the popular perception of Jane Austen is “That girl who wrote Pride and […]
Save the Pearls Readthrough (Part V)
As we approach the end of Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden, today Cliff rewrites everything. Me: Was it even possible for two people to truly see each other in a […]
Save the Pearls Readthrough (Part IV)
Today in our readthrough of Save the Pearls, the good news is that the pretty white girl who thinks she’s ugly and the black animal-man leave the world where black […]
Save the Pearls Readthrough (Part III)
Continuing our readthrough of Save the Pearls, our lead guy is a black beast-man. No, literally. Also, some villains do some stuff, I think, and we have a competition for […]
Save the Pearls Readthrough (Part II)
Last time, I shared our comments about the book’s background and promotional materials. Today, we jump right in with the book itself. It begins in The Combs, a dystopian underground […]
Save the Pearls Readthrough (Part I)
Today we begin our readthrough of the extremely wrongheaded YA novel Save the Pearls, which purports to be an anti-racist parable but ends up being offensive to just about everyone. We […]
Save the Pearls Readthrough (The Background)
I participated in a readthrough of Save the Pearls: Revealing Eden. I am now planning on presenting it here. For background, Save the Pearls would have been just another mediocre […]