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Apr.27.2013
THE LAST ORACLE is, by far, the best James Rollins novel I've read. Hmmm...probably since SANDSTORM. (And I've read a few well-crafted Rollins novels.) Now, TLO starts a bit slow so I urge readers to stick with it. Once the pace picks up, the reward is nonstop action and pulse-pounding, tug-on-the-...
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Nov.11.2012
>In 1959 at the height of the cold war Charles Percy Snow (or C.P. Snow as he is better known) delivered the prestigious Rede lecture at Cambridge University The topic of the lecture and its title was “The two cultures and the scientific revolution”. In this lecture, which he based on an earlier...
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Oct.08.2012
Books about war don’t always rise to the level of compelling literary narrative, often because they are wedded to the intricacies of how specific battles are won and lost on specific pieces of terrain. There’s some of that in The Coldest Winter, but Halberstam masterfully uses the crises for...
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Sep.15.2012
Photo: Movie poster, from its Wikipedia site
See this movie on cable for the story, the emotion, the great framed shots, the special effects, and the film nostalgia. It pays homage, in ways small and large, to the following films:
--E.T.
--Close Encounters
--The Thing...
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Jun.19.2012
After a few days of much needed rest...the blog is BACK!!!
On this date in 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed.
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May.01.2012
Sometimes there are literary musings as to what would have happened if Kafka had turned his hand to more commercial genres. There are even spoofs of such things (though - as yet - no one has twinned him with vampires). So, what would it have been like if Kafka had penned a "mystery" or "who...
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Apr.12.2012
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Interior Ministry hopes to rent out ‘top secret’ bunker
The bunker would make a cool facility (in both senses) — and certainly be a secure site — but is the ministry’s asking price too high?
by Brian Kenety...
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Mar.06.2012
Just as Dwight Eisenhower is, in my opinion, the greatest man of all time (outside deities), Joseph Stalin may be the worst man of the century and of history. It is not that Eisenhower is simply "greater" than all great men who came before him. Rather it is because he is the product of a tumultuous...
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Feb.01.2012
The Apothecary Maile Meloy Young Adult
Something Cold War-ish must be in my reading water. I seem to be choosing books with a Cold War themes fairly regularly -- David Almond's The Fire-Eaters, which centers around the Cuban Missile Crisis, Cecil Castelucci's Rose Sees Red, which is set in the...
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Jan.07.2012
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - The Movie
The missus and I decided to forgo the gloom of a too-warm January Saturday and spend it munching nachos at the movies - in this case, a cinematic interpretation of this, John le Carré's 'seventies spy novel of the same name.
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