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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Book Review: A Calculus of Angels - J Gregory Keyes
Book 2 of the Age of Unreason A Calculus of Angels picks up two years after the events of Newton s Cannon . To give a quick recap of what has happened before, this novel is set in the 18th Century, but one that is no longer recognizable as the 18th Century. Isaac Newton discovered something...
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Movie Review: Empire of the Sun (1987)
A film by Steven Spielberg Film critic Ernest Rister has written a brilliant review of Empire of the Sun where he details the unreality of the movie, how the viewer cannot trust what we are seeing on screen because it is the impressions of a 12 year old child and Spielberg gives us enough hints...
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Depression drugs that stopped working (Prozac and Wellbutrin)
Depression started Prozac was ok for a couple years then my Prozac was raided and wellbutri was added I was kind of ok but never quite fine I'm thinking that when the drugs stop working instead of more maybe it's time to taper off and reevaluate . If the drugs were any good shouldn't at one point be...
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