Tag: fiction
member name: Paul M.
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June 23, 2008 10:28 PM EDT --
Well, more or less. My YA book "Forever Young" has just been "published" on Public Bookshelf.com (under my cousin's name because he has a Paypal account and his name sounds . . .
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October 01, 2009 03:07 PM EDT --
On a message board a couple of people were getting into that familiar old timer's rant of "kids today can't sit still five minutes let alone read a novel!" My rebuttal: what about Harry Potter . . .
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October 31, 2008 11:18 PM EDT --
I went back to the regular theater this week (not by choice so much as the second-run theater didn't have anything at the time I wanted) and watched a movie probably soon to be playing at the second-run . . .
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March 17, 2008 11:00 AM EDT --
It was way back in 1991 or 1992 when I first walked into the local Waldenbooks and saw the display for "Heir to the Empire" by Timothy Zahn billed as "the official continuation of the Star . . .
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June 10, 2008 10:14 AM EDT --
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
(4/5 stars)
I first read this book about five years ago when I was just exploring the works of John Irving, who has since become my favorite writer. . . .
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October 02, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
I just finished updating a blog with all 180 or so book reviews I've written since 2001. You can read all about my favorite (and not so favorite) books over that stretch. The blog divides . . .
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April 07, 2008 09:53 AM EDT --
Going Postal
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
A Gather friend suggested after I reviewed Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently books that I should give "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett a try. . . .
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June 20, 2008 04:20 PM EDT --
The Hotel New Hampshire
by John Irving
(3/5 stars)
I've just about reached the halfway point in reading all of my literary hero John Irving's 11 novels in order with "The Hotel New . . .
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September 05, 2008 09:08 AM EDT --
Moving Pictures
(A Discworld Novel)
by Terry Pratchett
(3/5 stars)
I'm going to be lazy here and borrow heavily from the review of the last Discworld book I read recently because really, . . .
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February 24, 2009 10:18 AM EST --
I sort of wanted to see this one when it came out, but it was only at the multiplex a week or two before fading away. Now that it's on video, I finally got the chance to watch it On Demand. . . .
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February 18, 2009 09:27 AM EST --
Interesting Times
(Discworld Volume 17)
by Terry Pratchett
(4/5 stars)
I'd been reviewing these in batches, but I might not finish another one for a little bit, so I'm going to do . . .
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September 30, 2009 11:23 AM EDT --
It was probably a month or two ago when I was reading The Sports Guy on ESPN and he proclaimed "Almost Famous" as the greatest movie of the 00s. My first reaction was, "Was that movie even released . . .
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October 01, 2009 10:57 AM EDT --
The Thursday Writing Essentials topic today is rants and I can't think of a more fun rant I've written than this one about the book, The Time Traveler's Wife . I wrote it in 2003 and since then . . .
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March 14, 2009 09:35 PM EDT --
If you're looking for something to read, but don't want to spend much money, De-Press is here to help. We have a variety of e-Books to choose from, all formatted into nice, neat PDF files . . .
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May 15, 2009 03:15 PM EDT --
Good Omens
by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett (Or Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman depending on your edition)
(5/5 stars)
In 1988 two great British humorists got together to write a story . . .
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October 05, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
This is a case where I wound up feeling the previews and reviews lied to me. I thought this movie would be funny and sweet, perhaps with some message about growing up. Instead it was a dull, . . .
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October 27, 2009 08:54 AM EDT --
Hey, check it out, my book Where You Belong and the story behind the story is featured on the FReado site today. Woo hoo!
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October 17, 2008 03:37 PM EDT --
The Fourth Hand
by John Irving
(1 star)
Third time was not the charm for this novel. The first time I read it about five years ago I didn't really like it. Then I decide a . . .
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July 24, 2008 03:42 PM EDT --
The Cider House Rules
by John Irving
4/5 stars
The first time I read "The Cider House Rules" it changed my life in more ways than one. For one thing up to that point I had been . . .
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February 28, 2009 03:53 PM EST --
The last time Leo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet starred together they were the star-crossed lovers Jack and Rose trying to survive the Titanic disaster. In a way you can think of "Revolutionary . . .
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