Tag: wishbone
member name: Paul M.
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September 18, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
These are a couple more items I've read recently that didn't make much of an impression on me and so I'm just going to toss off a couple one-paragraph reviews. For the obligatory plot . . .
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September 17, 2007 10:50 AM EDT --
1984
by George Orwell
(5/5 stars)
"1984"--or "Nineteen Eighty-Four" in the Oldspeak--is one of those books prophecizing doom that has remained relevant enough to generate a famous . . .
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November 30, 2009 10:54 AM EST --
I hope that you did your patriotic duty this Black Friday and this Cyber Monday by spending money to stimulate the economy. As you know, retailers depend on these pseudoholidays for 90% of their . . .
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July 14, 2007 12:28 AM EDT --
The Yiddish Policeman's Union
by Michael Chabon
(1 star)
I can summarize my review as follows: This is the best-written cheesy mystery/thriller EVER.
I stayed away from . . .
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August 02, 2007 08:38 AM EDT --
The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
(4 stars)
I'd always stayed away from Pynchon's novels because A) They are longer than the average Harry Potter book and B) They sound bizarre. . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
(4/5 stars)
For someone whose only real exposure to Jewish culture growing up was watching "Seinfeld" on TV, "Portnoy's Complaint" seems . . .
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September 19, 2007 09:42 AM EDT --
Feast of Love
by Charles Baxter
(3/5 stars)
In honor of the new movie adaptation of the novel--and me scoring a free copy of the book because of it--I'm posting the review I wrote of the book when . . .
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September 26, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
(2/5 stars)
I think I might have liked this book a lot more if I hadn't listened to the audiobook version. 22 hours of stereotyped Indian and Jamaican accents was . . .
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October 01, 2007 04:14 PM EDT --
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
(5/5 stars)
Salman Rushdie is the third author I've read recently that I'd put off reading for many years out of a misplaced fear I'd find . . .
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October 02, 2007 10:57 AM EDT --
Money
by Martin Amis
(3/5 stars)
While "Money" is a highly entertaining, raunchy yarn, it suffers when read 20+ years later from being an '80s novel. Like every story . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:47 AM EST --
If you're buying XMas music from Amazon, sometimes patience is a virtue. The Boxmasters XMas album I bought last week for $8.91 is now on sale for $7.99. Also, the Tori Amos XMas album priced . . .
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December 16, 2009 09:38 AM EST --
Since it is the time of "best of" lists I've been doing a couple "best of" lists of my own. (And let's face it, it's an easy way to pick up a few points for doing very little.) Since it's . . .
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December 18, 2009 10:35 AM EST --
So here are the biggest trends according to Google:
1 obama copenhagen
2 chris henry
3 research in motion
4 champions league
5 weather forecast
6 avatar movie
7 rim
8 twitter . . .
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June 28, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
Here are some movie reviews I wrote for my Twitter account. It's kind of fun summarizing a movie in one sentence of 100 characters or less.
"The Spirit": Worst superhero movie since . . .
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July 16, 2009 09:58 AM EDT --
The self-titled debut album by the band Among the Oak & Ash is now available from Amazon and iTunes on CD, MP3, and I think even vinyl.
(4/5 stars)
When I first heard about this project on MySpace, . . .
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November 29, 2009 08:14 PM EST --
(Warning: contains spoilers)
Probably the biggest cliche ending for books, movies, and such are variations on "They Lived Happily Ever After" starting with the old Mother Goose stories. . . .
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July 05, 2009 12:47 PM EDT --
Anansi Boys
By Neil Gaiman
(3.5/5 stars)
"Anansi Boys" is not so much a sequel to Gaiman's "American Gods" as it is more of a spin-off, a literary "Rhoda" or "Facts of Life." In "American . . .
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May 22, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
(4/5 stars)
I mentioned this in my review of "Good Omens" but just to recap, I came by this book after reading Terry Pratchett's fabulous Discworld series. From . . .
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July 17, 2009 04:35 PM EDT --
The Winter King
(Warlord Chronicles, Part 1)
by Bernard Cornwell
OK, most everyone should know the legend of King Arthur by now. If you don't, the basic summary is that there was once a king . . .
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September 27, 2009 12:12 PM EDT --
I summarized the movie on Twitter as follows: It's like the "Bourne" movies only without the boring command center scenes. So basically you're left with the car chases and fights without a . . .
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