Frankenstein is not weird
Although I have never seen any of the many film adaptations of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I have already read the novel once before in its entirety. Usually, rereading a book is a rewarding...
View ArticleWhich came first, the Monster or Frankenstein?
As our discussion of Frankenstein has progressed, I am still attempting to place Frankenstein on what we can call the monster-creator spectrum: does Frankenstein’s final explanation that “[his]...
View ArticleRace in “The Comet”
While W.E.B. Du Bois’ “The Comet” is a science fiction story depicting post-apocalyptic New York, it is much more than that; to me, it is a story primarily concerned with race relations that merely...
View ArticleRastafarians in Cyberspace
While the first section of Neuromancer was indisputably difficult to follow, the second section presented (to me at least) its own unique set of challenges for the reader. As we discussed in class, one...
View Article2 in We3
I just successfully (and happily) made it through my first reading of a graphic novel! We3 was extremely visually stimulating and…dare I say it…surprisingly heartwarming, in spite of the blood and...
View ArticleAgency in Dawn- Not for Humans!
After finishing Dawn by Octavia Butler, I am curious to see where the next novel will take Lilith and the others- is it possible, as Lilith suggests at the end, that “a few fertile people might slip...
View ArticleTo Akin
My dearest Akin, It is with great impatience, hope, and love that I write this letter to you. I am impatient because I have spent months waiting for you, my unborn son, and I am eager to know you and...
View ArticleAre we human, or are we…just a brain?
“Jesus, Siri. People aren’t rational. You aren’t rational. We’re not thinking machines, we’re– we’re feeling machines that happen to think.” (231-232). Reading Young Park’s blogpost (which can be read...
View ArticleEL CAPITAN!!
[pgs 343-354] I have been hit. Those skimmers, those scramblers, that damn Rorschach attacked me. I couldn’t believe just how much of an impact Rorschach could make, or how covertly it could do it. No...
View ArticleClones: The Most Human Non-Humans?
So far, I’m finding The House of the Scorpion to be a very enjoyable read; it’s definitely the easiest book to make sense of that we’ve read this semester, and the narrative is interesting. I’m not...
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