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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Review: The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir, by Toby Young

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Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press, 2006, pp. 274. Toby Young's second memoir (the first of course being How to Lose Friends and Alienate Pe...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Returning to Sahara: The Dirk Pitt Novels On Screen

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Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt series has had an exceptionally unfortunate history on the big screen, each of the two attempts to film one of...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Reflections on the Dirk Pitt Series

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I first encountered Clive Cussler circa 1993 through Sahara , which was then his latest novel. I went right through it and subsequently trac...
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Why I Can't Stand The Big Bang Theory

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Last summer I watched a handful of episodes of The Big Bang Theory all the way through, then gave up on the show entirely, not just irritat...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Review: Wizardry & Wild Romance: A Study of Epic Fantasy, by Michael Moorcock

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Austin, TX: MonkeyBrain, Inc., 2004, pp. 206. I first encountered Michael Moorcock's classic study of epic fantasy many years ago, whe...
Friday, January 7, 2011

"Was 2010 the Worst Year for Movies Ever?"

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Continuing in the vein of "2010 in review," Moviefone 's Gary Susman offers his take on the year's films , and it is far f...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Review: Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel, by Gary Shteyngart

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New York: Random House, 2010, pp. 334. The protagonist of Gary Shteyngart's bestselling novel Super Sad True Love Story is Leonard Ab...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Reflections on Stieg Larsson's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

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The success of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is exactly the kind of hit that makes me suspicious - a book showered with acclaim by ...
Friday, October 8, 2010

On the New York Times Bestseller List . . .

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On last Sunday's New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list , Jonathan Franzen, Nicholas Sparks and Stieg Larsson are all on top,...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Give the Superheroes a Rest?

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Alan Stanley Blair recently penned a piece at Airlock Alpha on the boom in movies (and television) based on superhero comics titled "E...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

The End of James Bond?

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Collected in The Forgotten James Bond . Back in April the producers of the James Bond film series announced that the next film is on inde...
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The End of James Bond? (Continued)

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Reboot Still, I wasn't terribly intrigued by the idea of the "reboot" that was discussed some time afterward. I'm not big...
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