: About Me

I am a young, overzealous procrastinator from New Jersey. I have been reading since I was 4 years old, and got my first writing job with a newspaper at 17. If that ain't love, then I don't know what love is. I just recently shaved off my dreadlocks, the reason mostly being that I couldn't get a decent paying job in the corporate world, although for the life of me I don't know why I would ever want to work in the corporate world. I still can't get a job, probably because I'm actually fun to work with, and isn't there a rule somewhere that says fun people shouldn't get paid? I'm a starving artist. Literally. As a kid I was milk fed on essentials such as Kerouac, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Tolstoy, the Bible, Whitman, The Beatles, Zeppelin, Elvis, and Patsy Cline. As a result I am a rather rebellious conservative.

My passion is ...

passion.

I know too much about ...

jack white

My parents always told me ...

...that if I ate the crust of my bread, my hair would get curly. Well...they were right.

My childhood ambition ...

To live to a very crotchity age, become decrepit, and eventually die. So far it's going well.

My favorite memory ...

The smell of my dad's work coat.

Why I write ...

Because I can't not write. And also obviously because I have excellent grammatical skills.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Pullman/zombies/Arcade Fire.

My first job ...

flippin' pizzas.

My best moment ...

yet to come

My inspiration ...

my rebellious and incidentally cool artsy sister Jess.

Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Book Reviews: His Dark Materials, by Philip Pullman

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His Dark Materials, a series of three books by children's fantasy writer Philip Pullman, is not widely known, but has gained a cult following from among underground science fiction readers since the first book's publication in 1995. The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass have won several prizes but, for some reason, have never quite reached level of mainstream popularity that swept up books like J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter. However, the His Dark Materials series is well loved by those exposed to Pullman's work. The Golden Compass starts off in a world slightly differe...

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