4365: New Math

[jen_aside]

I won another monthly STEM puzzle at work! Maybe I should mention that before I forget to save the draft again =p

So I think I mentioned--or if I didn't, should have here somewhere--that Hoarder* writes the company newsletter every month [for the END of the month, for some reason, detailing events like birthdays that already happened vs.

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[jen_aside]

[[Thinking on those reviews I wrote, perhaps I'm too verbose in my ranting. Bulleted points might work better, likeThis book appeals to me because

1. it convincingly describes the plight of the poor [always touches a chord with me, coming from poor upbringings],
2. it describes the obliviousness of the "out-of-touch" privileged who feel that the poor should be PROUD to have their lives treated like the playtoys of the 1%, and
3. it covers realistic [though, I admit, I'm not quite certain of authentic] survival skills that level the playing field, as it were, in class warfare--Katniss wins because she has a greater desperation to survive than those from the upper districts who treat life-or-death as just another silly game.

This book repulses me because

1. it glazes over the seriousness of the consequences of having a government in power that SANCTIONS MAKING ITS CITIZENS KILL EACH OTHER [though by the time the book is established, the country has been repressed to a point of general complacency that it's unfathomable it could ever have gotten to that

[jen_aside]

Ah, hell. I'll throw up the review anyway. Still feeling a little miffed at it for some reason and need a virtual punching bag.