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Hey everybody! How y'all doing?

I'm still unemployed, but like I mentioned in my last update, I'm taking the time to play games and read. And write, as evident with my influx of reviews.

Right now, I'm playing Telltale Games' Back to the Future adventure game. I wasn't expecting much to this, but I was pleasantly surprised at the quality. It keeps a lot of the same tone as the movies and has some pretty fun callbacks. I recently finished the fourth episode and the twist at the end was pretty unexpected, but makes sense in the story they've created. I'll probably review that soon after I finish the final episode.

My friend and I recorded another episode of our podcast, Geeksnobs, this week. We had fun talking about some recent announcements, especially the unnecessary reboot of the Universal monsters line of films. It can be found on iTunes and here: http://geeksnobs.libsyn.com/monsters-avenger-league

I finished reading Horns by Joe Hill this week. I'd read his first novel, Heart-Shaped Box several years ago. While I liked it, I wasn't inspired to keep reading his stuff. I picked up Horns during a sale on ebooks a couple weeks back and started reading it a week ago.

I was not prepared for the emotion and the ideas held within the book. Without spoilers, Ig Perrish wakes up after a drunk with horns sprouting from his head. I doesn't remember much of the night before, other than he became enraged after visiting the shrine of his former girlfriend, Merrin. She had been found raped and murdered and without a proper alibi, Ig was the prime suspect. However, the lab that held the evident burned down not too long after and he was let go. By that time, everyone despised him and his family. Now, with horns sprouting from his head, he finds that everyone is spilling their secrets and desires to him without any qualms.

The story could be considered horror by the very shallow of readers, but it's so much more than that. It turns from mystery to romance to revenge thriller so delicately that genre is near impossible to pin down.

I really loved this book and am wary about the announced movie that's releasing on Halloween. It has a tremendous chance to be good, if on the low-key end, but it's also very easy to screw up.

Back to the employment issue. I'm not looking too hard at the moment, because I'm mulling over the idea of going back to school. I never liked school to begin with, and starting over at age 34 seems like it'll be tough. But I've admitted to myself that I don't like my current lot in life and want to change that. If I do make that choice, I'll be going into Political Science. It's something that I've become interested in over the past 10 years and it seems to be the route taken to get work with organizations that help promote/protect civil rights, which I'm interested in. But I still need to make the final decision.

I'll let you guys know when I do!