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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...

by User avatar copteacher

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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