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Book Review: The Final Solution - Michael Chabon

Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon ("The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay") takes a shot at writing a classic Sherlock Holmes mystery. Holmes, never explicitly named, is nearing the end of his life. He has retired to Sussex, England, to keep bees. This is all that he wants to do...

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Suggestions for running related books?

Answered by a doctor

Does anyone have any suggestions for any good book that's related to running, whether it be training, nutrition, strength training, or just a good old fashioned biography? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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Book Review: Absolutely American - David Lipsky

Absolutely American is the story of the West Point Military Academy. West Point has a nearly mythological status in American history, and especially in American Military History. It was founded at the orders of George Washington and among its graduates we can count: Ulysses S Grant, Stonewall...

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Movie Review: Daughter from Danang (2002)

A film by Gail Doglin and Vicente Franco Daughter from Danang was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar at the 2003 Academy Awards. For that alone, I figured it would be worth seeing. The subject matter was also moderately interesting to me, but I am always interested in a well made...

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Book Review: The Misplaced Legion - Harry Turtledove

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A Roman Legion is fighting a band of Celts when somehow some magic spell is activated that transports the Legion (plus one Celt) to some strange new world. The Legion and Celt are forced to cooperate to stay alive and not knowing how to get back or even if...

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Book Review: Cloak of Deception - James Luceno

Cloak of Deception is the first Star Wars novel that I have read. This novel is set before the events of The Phanton Menace and set some things in motion which help better explain potential questions raised in the movie. Some questions that get addressed in this book: What is the deal with the Trade...

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Movie Review: The Sandlot 2 (2005)

Ten years after the events of The Sandlot comes another story set in the same neighborhood on the same sandlot. All of the kids from the first movie are now ten years older and have all moved away. The only person remaining is Johnny Smalls (James Willson), the younger brother of Scott Smalls, the...

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Book Review: New Spring - Robert Jordan

While we wait for the eleventh book in Robert Jordan s Wheel of Time series to be written and published, we are given the chance to take a look back at some of the events that led up to Moiraine s search for the Dragon Reborn and how she came to have a warder. New Spring was originally a short story...

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Book Review: Truth and Beauty - Ann Patchett

When she was an undergrad in college, Ann Patchett knew of Lucy Grealy. Everyone did. Most people only knew Lucy as the girl with the face. Lucy had lost part of her jaw on the right side of her face due to Ewing s Sarcoma as a child. Lucy was incredibly popular and everyone knew who she was and...

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Movie Review: OPEN WATER

Fantastic movie. Made with only a budget of 130k, I understand it grossed in excess of 50mil. It is a story about a couple who goes scuba diving on a vacation, and the boat driver miscounts the number of people on the boat and leaves the couple behind. Every divers worst fear turns into their...

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