Jared Berg
Bright Eyes’ CD ‘fails to break new ground’
Hailed by Rolling Stone as “a masterpiece of country-flavored heartland angst,” I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning, may pluck a resonating chord with many Midwestern listeners. The fifth full-length studio album from 24-year-old Nebraskan native Conor Oberst and his right hand band, Bright Eyes.
Essentials: Crime and Punishment
The Story: Crime and Punishment is a psychological thriller set in St. Petersburg, Russia during the 1860′s. The story’s main character is a young, broke but educated loner named Raskolnikov, who resents society and its values. Burdened by his own boredom and radical view of utilitarianism, Raskolnikov decides to murder a greedy old pawnbroker and steal her money.
Essentials: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Someone once wrote that an old book is a new book if you haven’t read it, or maybe it was any book is a new book if you haven’t read it. The point is that Virginia Woolf’s 1927 novel To the Lighthouse definitely fits the criteria of an old book, yet its message of personal discovery is as important today as it was seventy years ago.
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