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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!

Book Review: Last Stand - Barbara Kingsolver

Last Stand is primarily a collection of nature photography with chapter introductions written by Barbara Kingsolver. This is an environmental work in that the aim of the book is to educate about some of the beautiful regions of our country and to tell that there is a significant human threat to the...

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Book Review: The Last Juror - John Grisham

The Last Juror is the latest novel out of the Grisham factory of legal thrillers. This one is set back in Ford County, the setting of his first novel A Time to Kill , but we also see Clanton, which I believe was the town from The Chamber . I have not been very impressed with Grisham s work when he...

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Book Review: The Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude is a difficult book for me to review. The story being told by Lethem is so broad, and at the same time so simple that capturing it in a couple of short paragraphs seems like folly to attempt. Yet, this novel is so good that an attempt is warranted. The Fortress of...

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Movie Review: The Real Cancun (2003)

A film by Rick de Oliveira The Real Cancun is brought to us by the good folks who gave us MTV s The Real World. In this movie, MTV takes 16 college aged students on a spring break to Cancun. They are put up in a house and they are filmed for the length of their stay. This film has been rated R...

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Movie Review: The Interpreter (2005)

The Interpreter , directed by Sydney Pollack, is a very smart political thriller. Critics have called it an old fashioned movie and that it is an old school political thriller in the vein of a Manchurian Candidate . This is meant as a compliment and high praise. Being called old fashioned may...

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Book Review: Listen, You Pencil Neck Geeks - Freddie Blassie

As it says on the book jacket, this book is about a Legend of Wrestling. This is not just faint praise or exaggeration. Classy Freddie Blassie is a true legend of the ring and his career spans a half century as a wrestler and a manager. All I knew of Blassie was that he was a manager and that...

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Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

How do you turn a 700+ page novel into a movie? Well, you either make a 4 hour movie or you cut, cut, cut and turn into a 2.5 hour movie. The filmmakers decided on the latter because there was no good splitting point in the novel to make GOF: Part I and GOF: Part II. What we end up with is the...

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Book Review: Masquerade - Gayle Lynds

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It was interesting reading Masquerade after Gayle Lynds latest novel The Coil . What makes it interesting was that The Coil was the sequel Masquerade and followed some of the same characters that we first meet in Masquerade . Knowing who the characters are in the second book changed how I viewed...

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Movie Review: Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Kingdom of Heaven is completely different. This is a historical epic from the director of Gladiator, Ridley Scott. Nobody does a historical epic like Scott. He should have directed Troy, Alexander, and King Arthur. Here we have Balion (Orlando Bloom), a blacksmith who meets his Crusader father (Liam...

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Movie Review: City of God (2002)

A film by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund Roger Ebert has heaped praise upon praise for City of God and all of it is warranted. The City of God slums are an offshoot of Rio de Janeiro that were created to keep the poor and the homeless away from the tourist centers of Rio. The result was a...

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