Movie Review: Barbershop (2002)
A film by Tim Story The barbershop has been a neighborhood institution in the African American community. It is the place that, historically, black men could gather together and talk about anything, from politics to religion to sports and not have to worry about white society. Long after the...
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Book Review: Knotted Tongues - Benson Bobrick
This book is a fairly interesting history of stuttering. Benson Bobrick takes a look at historical figures who have stuttered, a list which includes Charles Darwin, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Moses, and the Greek speaker Demosthenes. Knotted Tongues is a look at how stuttering was...
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Book Review: Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Life of Pi is the winner of the Booker Prize and was given a ridiculous amount of critical praise. It was given so much so that I was a little unsure about reading it, that it could not possibly live up to the hype. In one sense, I was right. The novel did not live up the hype of the critical...
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Book Review: King of Foxes - Raymond Feist
The Conclave of Shadows, Book 2 King of Foxes is a continuation of the storyline began in Talon of the Silver Hawk. Tal was the winner of the sword fighting championship at the Master s Court at Roldem and now he is somewhat of a celebrity. He is still seeking revenge against the Duke of...
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Book Review: Shadow Hunter - Michael Reaves
Shadow Hunter is a prequel novel set in the Star Wars universe. The setting is on Coruscant just days before the event of The Phantom Menace . Whereas Cloak of Deception was a novel set on a grander scale and told of the origins of Darth Sidious s plan for the Naboo trade blockade and dealt with...
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Movie Review: The Notebook
This is a movies based on the popular novel by Nicholas Sparks. I have not read the book and after seeing this film, I truly regret that. James Garner reads a story to Gena Rowlands in the setting of a nursing home. The story follows the lives of two people in South Carolina in the 40's. She was...
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Book Review: Mesmerized - Gayle Lynds
Beth Convey is a hard nosed, high powered Washington D.C. lawyer working on a divorce case for a multi-million dollar client. She is tough, and she is good. In the middle of the very stressful trial, just as she made a play that will win the divorce settlement she is aiming for, Beth Convey...
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Movie Review: Conan the Barbarian (1982)
A film by John Milius What can you say about Conan? Originally created as a pulp novel by Robert Howard, John Milius s film is the first reason Arnold Schwarzenegger became a star. It is a muscle-bound, B-Grade styled fantasy of a film about a warrior named Conan. It is also a good movie, if...
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Book Review: The Spell Sword - Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Spell Sword is another Darkover novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. This one is set sometime after the Terran Empire rediscovered Darkover. Now there are both the Darkovan natives, as well as men from Terra living on Darkover. This novel begins in a way that we have seen several times before:...
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Movie Review: American Splendor (2003)
A film by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini American Splendor is a rather peculiar movie, though a fairly good one. American Splendor is about the life and times of Harvey Pekar. Harvey is not the sort of man you would ordinarily expect to have a movie made about, Harvey is also the...
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