Tag: review
member name: Chris Steib
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July 15, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
Ah, summer. The season in which we customarily choose books by virtue of their cover art or their ability to fit neatly into a beach bag. But just because it's summer doesn't mean you have to . . . more
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May 01, 2007 07:34 PM EDT --
It brings me no pleasure to write this review, I assure you. I've been watching the Spiderman 3 trailers with great interest, and I got goosebumps from the two-minute preview that ran at iMax when . . . more
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October 23, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
Here's a quickie for those interested in the slow, painful death of the printed word: Jeff Gomez, author of the forthcoming book Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age , is talking the talk . . . more
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June 06, 2007 12:10 AM EDT --
The Average American Male
a novel by Chad Kultgen (Harper Perennial, 2007)
They say the average male thinks about sex every eight to ten seconds – but that’s child’s play for the . . . more
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June 16, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
Boy Sets Fire
The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years
(Equal Vision Records, 2006)
Emerging from more than four years of shameful sell-out pop-core releases on the major label Wind-Up Records, . . . more
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August 29, 2007 06:58 PM EDT --
I'm not sure at what point the publishing industry decided that "literary" was synonymous with "depressing," but Kaui Hart Hemmings' debut novel The Descendants is a prime . . . more
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September 27, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
“We live in a world that could only have been dreamed up by Graham Greene and Franz Kafka on a weekend bender, with George Orwell along to write slogans.” -- Jess Walter, from the afterward . . . more
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October 16, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
In book-to-film news, AOL Movies posted a new trailer for the Coen brothers' forthcoming adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic No Country for Old Men. I have little to add to the trailer except . . . more
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October 14, 2007 10:48 PM EDT --
Just weeks before Amazon.com is set to reveal their eBook solution to gadget-crazy nerds everywhere, Sony has sent to the market this little piggy, the PRS-505 generation-two Reader. The perceived . . . more
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July 02, 2008 11:26 PM EDT --
No matter what you think you leave behind, until your heart stops, you carry it all with you.
War -- the second novel by author/filmmaker Todd Komarnicki -- follows the narrative of an . . . more
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