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Three facts of life: you got to slip Uncle Sam some green, you’re going to croak, and Morgan Freeman kicks ass. Now, I don’t mean he can kick an MMA fighter’s ass or your ass or even your grandma’s ass. At 75, if he tried to kick anyone’s ass, it would be probably his own when he slips and cracks his hip in a dozen places.
No, I mean Morgan Freeman kicked the ass of life. Like Steve Martin in Th... Read more of this blog post »
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The Jazz Cage
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| Interesting but not too interesting second volume of Harris's interpretation of the life of Cicero. I'd imagine a third volume is in order, though it sort of sucks that you can just read Wikipedia to get the plot. I advise you not to do this, however...more | |
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| Some nice writing and eccentric characters. Very Holocaust pornish, though. And Death as a central character is gimmicky and silly. | |
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| Somewhat entertaining and very sentimental if not patronizing. It just seemed a bit overwritten--a 300-page story fluffed up to 500+ pages. | |
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| Boring mystery that seems preoccupied with Thai prostitution, which surely isn't all that Thailand has to offer, right? This is exactly like a mystery you would expect a dirty old Western man visiting Thailand to write. | |
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| The beginning was exceptionally exciting but the novel became somewhat unsatisfying. I'd wished for A LOT more character development, better dialogue, and more original prose. | |
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| Not one of King's better books. The superlative writing is still there, but the very long story drags to an unsatisfying ending. | |
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| Meandering and boring. Also annoying was how the black folks in the book, after the shooting, COMPLETELY disappeared from the story even though the whole plot is about the SHOOTING DEATH OF A YOUNG BLACK GIRL. Instead, the writer seems to think it mo...more | |
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| A silly plot that mixes a Hong Kong kung-fu movie with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Not original or very interesting, I'm afraid. | |
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| Can a novel be silly and unoriginal AND awesome at the same time? Yes, and that novel is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. I've never read a writer with so much talent tell such mediocre stories. And David Mitchell is writer with mega-talent. His prose a...more | |
