Tag: snausages
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July 19, 2008 06:37 PM EDT --
The Dark Knight
4/4 stars
Is WOW! sufficient? I can't remember the last time I went to a movie and was in utter disbelief at how far the filmmakers went. They pulled out all the . . .
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October 15, 2007 04:54 PM EDT --
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
(5/5 stars)
I haven't seen more than a few minutes of the famous 1975 film version of this novel. But even for me, it's hard reading this . . .
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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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December 04, 2009 06:58 PM EST --
Nothing quite says the holiday like stealing $2 million from your boss and plotting to skip town with your best friend the local porn dealer. Unlike heist movies like "Ocean's 11" the crime isn't . . .
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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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October 04, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Last year director DJ Caruso and star Shia LaBeouf teamed up for an update of Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” that was not as good as the original, but still pretty good in “Disturbia”. Now the . . .
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October 11, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
If you ever watched those old Frank Capra movies like "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" or "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (NOT the horrible Adam Sandler remake) then you'll like "Flash . . .
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October 10, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
(3/5 stars)
This is the kind of book I finish reading and have to begin a search of my own. I look for Cliff Notes, Wikkipedia entries, Amazon reviews, anything . . .
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January 29, 2008 09:39 AM EST --
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
(Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #4)
by Douglas Adams
(4/5 stars)
I just spent a long weekend catching up on this series by reading books 2-4. . . .
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February 07, 2009 07:49 PM EST --
I’ve seen three of the Best Picture nominees for the Oscars: “Benjamin Button”, “Milk”, and “Slumdog Millionaire”. I probably won’t have time to see the others in time. At any rate, so far I . . .
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December 31, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
Bonfire of the Vanities
by Tom Wolfe
(4/5 stars)
In all 31 flavors of "Law and Order on TV, the NYPD and DA'soffice disposes of a case from the incident to the trial . . .
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January 07, 2008 12:31 PM EST --
Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
(4/5 stars)
This is one of those books I read solely out of that sick curiosity that makes people crane their necks in the car to see an accident on the highway. . . .
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January 11, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
A Dirty Job
by Christopher Moore
(3/5 stars)
I think there's a reason the more humorous books I've read like "Slaughterhouse-Five" or "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" . . .
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January 19, 2008 09:51 PM EST --
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
(5/5 stars)
When I recently read Kerouac's "On the Road" I lamented that I read it too late in life for it to really change . . .
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January 25, 2008 02:44 PM EST --
A Million Little Pieces
by James Frey
(3/5 stars)
I finally decided to read this long after the Oprah controversy died out. Unless you've been under the proverbial rock there's . . .
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February 11, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
How to Be Good
by Nick Hornby
(3/5 stars)
In all honesty I didn't really want to read this book. I was looking for one of Hornby's better known books like "High Fidelity" . . .
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October 13, 2009 10:08 AM EDT --
I wondered why I hadn't received the sweatshirt and hat I ordered from my college alma mater yet, considering it's been nearly a week. So today I found the UPS tracking order and checked it online . . .
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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 27, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
Another Friday, another movie. This time I went to see "Burn After Reading" the latest film from the Coen brothers, the geniuses behind "Fargo," "O Brother Where Art Thou," . . .
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