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Book Review: The Dancing Mind - Toni Morrison

The Dancing Mind is not your typical book. It is not a fiction book, nor is it really a non-fiction book. The Dancing Mind is a speech Toni Morrison gave when she accepted The National Book Foundation Medal. This is a very slim volume, coming in at only 17 pages, but it is an opportunity to read...

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Movie Review: The Wedding Crashers

Anyone who's seen the trailer knows the basic premise; two guys crash weddings in the hopes of meeting gorgeous women. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are divorce mediators who spend their weekends crashing weddings and getting laid as much as is humanly possible. The first half of this movie went...

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Movie Review: Collateral (2004)

A film by Michael Mann Max (Jamie Foxx) is a Las Angeles cab driver with dreams of something grander for his life. His dream, as he tells various fares, is to own his own luxury limo company: Island Limos. This job of driving a taxi is only temporary, but it is a temporary job that has lasted...

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Book Review: Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, 1997 While I am sure that most people begin a Pulitzer Prize winning novel with excitement about the treasure they are about to read, I begin with a little trepidation. Will the novel live up to the hype of winning America s most prestigious literary prize? In...

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Book Review: Great Lies to Tell Small Kids

This is a book of cartoons by Andy Riley, author of the Bunny Suicides books. It's very short and not worth buying, but next time you're in the bookstore go to the humor section and read through it. I think this is one shelfie will really appreciate.

by User avatar MechEngDropout

Movie Review: Brokeback Mountain

"Brokeback Mountain" is the film that has the most Academy Award nominations out of all of the 2005 movies. It us up for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress (to name the major nominations). In short, this is a major...

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Book Review: Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Purple Hibiscus is the debut novel from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. It is the story of Kambili and her family. Kambili s father is a powerful force both at home and in the family. He holds fast to his Catholicism he views anyone who does not follow Christ as firmly as he does as a sinner and...

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Book Review: Ultramarathon Man

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Dean Karnazes is an amazing athlete. He is a winner of the 2004 Badwater 135 Ultramarathon (The World's Toughest Footrace, 135 miles through Death Valley), and has completed the Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run as well as running the first South Pole Marathon. He has also run a 199 mile Relay...

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Book Review: The World of Marathons - Sandy Treadwell

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Sandy Treadwell's book "The World of Marathons" tries to capture exactly what the reader would expect from the title: the emergence of major marathons all across the globe. While there are blurbs on the back cover from elite marathoners and a forward by Fred Lebow (race director of the NYC...

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Movie Review: The Italian Job (2003)

A film by F. Gary Gray I didn t think much of this movie from watching the trailer. It looked a little cheap and cheesy and I didn t expect it to be remotely worth watching. Then it started to make money and I started hearing positive word of mouth reports about the movie. It became one of...

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