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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Book Review: Lost world: the alien voices series (book 13 out of 100)

It's not what I was expecting. It's based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, but is a bit different in that famous actors act out the book, or what I assume to be part of it. Famous voices include Leonard Nimoy and john de Lancie. This book actually convinced me to stay in my audio book... Sign in to see full entry.

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Book Review: Know It All (Book 12 out of 100).

As many of you know, I've become quite the A.J. Jacobs fan since reading his latest boo k Guinea Pig: My Life as an Experiment. I checked Know It All out of the library some weeks ago only to discover it had two problems. The first is that I had accidentally borrowed an abridged copy, and I do hate... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Book review: Behold the mighty dinosaur (book 11 of 100).

This was actually a series of class lectures by Professor John Kricher of Wheaton College. It's part of recorded books Modern Scholar Curriculum. Modern Scholar is basically a way for people who like to learn but have neither the time nor the money to devote to taking continuing ed classes or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

Book ReviewL America Offline (Book 10 out of 100)

This book is by A.J. Jacobs of The Year of Living Biblically fame. It’s basically a funny take on the fact that we’re all becoming too connected to computers, especially the Internet. Sir Jacobs, being a satirist by nature, introduces the plugged in generation to real life. While this is meant as a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Book Review: The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (book 9 of 100)

I'm not much of a biography fan, but as I told you, my goal with this reading challenge is to expand my knowledge of both authors and genres, not that I expect to be reading an abundance of self-help books ever. to that end, I picked up a copy of The Essential Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the library.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Movie Review: Milk

I've known about Harvey milk since I was 14 and I heard awesome reviews about this movie, but what I've noticed is that LGBT people especially tend to think any movie that portrays us without ridiculing us is awesome. See "Chasing Amy" for an example. I, however, tend to be a little more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Book Review: Neanderthal (Book 8 of 100)

As you may remember, I have an obsession with neanderthals. I don't know if it's because they stand the way people with cerebral palsy tend to or if I assume that they communicate using the kind of gestural language I resort to when I'm having a bad speaking day. I never heard of John Darnton, but... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Dvd Review: Back to the Future: the animated series

I ordered Back to the Future the animated series when I was in my I'm obsessed with everything Bob Gale and Bob zemeckis ever created, especially Back to the Future. I finally located it on ebay. But what arrived was not what I had purchased. What arrived was a very ghetto looking,bootleg copy of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 18, 2010

Book Review: Shadow Puppets (Book 7 of 100)

Shadow Puppets is yet another one of Orson Scott Cards seemingly endless series of Ender related stories. I listened to this one on audio book. The interesting thing about this particular novel was that Ender wasnt even in the story as a person at all. Instead, this story focused on the relationship... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 16, 2010

Book Review: Hot and Sweaty Rex (6 of 100)

I read Eric Garcia’s Hot and Sweaty Rex, the third and for now, sadly, final chapter of his Rex series. The other’s are Casual Rex and Anonymous Rex. The hero of the tales is Vincent Rubio, a private detective and dinosaur (yes, I said dinosaur). I’m a geek at heart; I also like adventures. In a... Sign in to see full entry.

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