Reviews

Winter is Coming

November 13, 2012

Anyone who is a fan of  Game of Thrones will see the myriad meanings in that title, to both the story and to real life. As for the thing itself, if you have not yet seen the HBO version of Game of  Thrones I highly recommend it.  The entire first season is available on DVD, [ Read more ]

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Stieg Larsson Is A Dead Marxist

November 30, 2010

I managed to cram all 590 pages of Stieg Larsson’s book ‘The girl with the dragon tattoo’ into my reading diet and let me say this; if you can get past the first 190 pages the next 400 are worth the time. I enjoyed the bulk of the book immensely, despite the fact that I was trapped in “the reading room” and that it was written by a now dead Marxist.

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Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part I

November 22, 2010

My children have been raised on Harry Potter. So it is a foregone conclusion that we were going to see it though to the end. And it is not disappointing.
While I cannot comment on how well the movie hews to the book (so far)–we read it so long ago it seems–my oldest son claims they changed a few things, though nothing terribly important seems to have been lost.

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