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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: 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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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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