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This is a discussion board about almost anything. Here you can meet interesting people, hear different opinions, and engage in small talk. The only requirement is that the subject is interesting!

CD Review: Audioslave, Out Of Exile

Before Velvet Revolver, the new generation of supergroups began with Audioslave. Consisting of Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, and Tim Commerford, Tom Morello, and Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine, the self-titled debut was a massive success. No doubt from the followings the members brought from...

by User avatar gretriever

Movie Review: The Believer (2001)

A film by Henry Bean Danny (Ryan Gosling) is a neo-nazi skinhead. At a meeting among other like minded individuals discussing how to bring about the rise of the Nazi party in America, he brings up killing the Jews. The other people at the meeting express shock and disagree about the necessity of...

by User avatar Guest

Book Review: Four Souls - Louise Erdrich

Fleur Pillager is one of Louise Erdrich s legendary characters. Fleur is legendary within the world Erdrich has created as well as being an iconic character of Erdrich s work as a whole. Four Souls continues the story of Fleur that was begun in Erdrich s second novel Tracks . Having lost her...

by User avatar Pug

Book Review: Alpha and Omega - Charles Seife

Ever since I read Charles Seife s excellent book Zero: A Biography of a Dangerous Idea I have been excited to read whichever book he might publish next. I finally got my change with Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe . The title tells us exactly what the book is...

by User avatar Pug

Movie Review: The Lake House (2006)

I originally thought this was a movie based on the book by James Patterson (which I haven't read and didn't really know what it was about). Of course, the movie is not based on the book. They are two completely different story lines. James Patterson's book is a thriller, this is a chick flick....

by User avatar Ms. Jenn

Movie Review: Whale Rider (2003)

A film by Niki Caro This movie opens in a hospital. A Maori woman is giving birth to twins. The grandfather of the children has been waiting for the birth of a child to be the new chief of the tribe. Two children are born: one male, one female. The male child dies along with the mother. The...

by User avatar Pug

Book Review: Ripples of Battle-Victor Davis Hanson

Hanson has been billed as the new Stephen Ambrose of the Military History genre. VDH, a college professor and well known conservative political writer authors a book depicting three major battles in history and the lasting historical impact they had. 1) Okinawa in WW II. Where suicide tactics...

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Book Review: Royal Assassin - Robin Hobb

This review has been approved by Pug. Book 2 of the Farseer Trilogy This second entry in Robin Hobb s Farseer trilogy picks up where the first book let off. FitzChivalry was poisoned by Prince Regal when he was in the Mountain Kingdom to bring home Princess Kettricken. Kettricken is to wed...

by User avatar Pug

DVD Review: A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

I realize that I am writing this several weeks after Christmas, and this is a Christmas DVD, but this is the first year that I missed watching A Charlie Brown Christmas on television, so I rented the DVD. Ever since I was a little boy, this has been my favorite Christmas special, and one that I...

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Book Review: The Middle of the Night - Daniel Stolar

I have never been a huge fan of short stories. I prefer the novel length format so I can spend more time with the characters that I have come to know and short stories tend to cut me off just when I want to learn more about a character or a situation. But, this collection came highly recommended...

by User avatar Pug