Tag: Fiction
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The State of Things
I saw Oblivion a few weeks back. Much better than TRON: Legacy by miles, but still missing that something that could ave made it great. I thing a lot of that was how the story tried to tack on too many ideas for its own good. Otherwise, Oblivion is a perfectly acceptable film that is…
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A Storm of Books and Stuff
I FINALLY finished ‘A Storm of Swords’ today. WOW. What an amazing, epic whale of a book. It took a couple of months to get through that, but it was worth it. The damn thing was over 900 pages. The world of Westeros and Beyond really expands in this book, as does the appearance of…
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Summer Movie Season
The 2012 Summer Movie season is upon us. Its my favorite part of the year for movies. Sure one usually will not find those well-acted dramas that cut to the core of their very existence, but more often than not Hollywood will offer a bevy of big, fun, bombastic event movies that wow your socks…