Tag: wishbone
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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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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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November 24, 2008 11:33 AM EST --
Do you save the turkey's wishbone and make a wish? I have done that since I was a little kid.
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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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May 03, 2009 05:13 PM EDT --
Another rainy day here in Virginia. So, I spent the day cleaning the barn, tack room and exploring the attic. My neighbor who just moved told me in the attic in his apartment were some things that . . .
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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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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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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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June 29, 2009 10:00 PM EDT --
Chronicles of the Undead
By AF Stewart
(5/5 stars)
These days when people think of vampire books they think of emo teenage angst-ridden romance yarns like "Twilight" instead of classics such as . . .
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August 03, 2007 11:10 AM EDT --
Silas Marner
by George Eliot (aka Marian Evans)
(3 stars)
About halfway through when the little bundle of joy shows up in Silas's house I couldn't help thinking Dickens would have done a much . . .
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September 13, 2007 11:28 AM EDT --
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
(4/5 stars)
Those looking for a rollicking action adventure about WWII in the Pacific had better look elsewhere. It's not a John Wayne movie . . .
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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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May 30, 2009 10:35 AM EDT --
"To succeed in life, you need three things:
a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."
- Reba McEntire
and depending on how hard life is,
you probably need several . . .
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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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November 29, 2009 03:58 PM EST --
And not the jungle river in South America or a group of women warriors but the website. I pretty much did all my XMas shopping on Amazon.com this year. Not because I'm lazy and didn't feel . . .
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