For various reasons, my mom and my little sister were involved in a community theater production of The Wizard of Oz over past few weeks, and last night Jennifer and I went down to see the show. The production was so-so. Production values were high, with good costumes and a reasonably tolerable orchestra, and most [...]
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Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
You’d think that the premise of Anansi Boys — that the old gods are still alive and interacting with humanity in unusual ways — would be tired, and that several of the plot elements in this novel (I won’t give them away) would be clichéd. However, Gaiman, in [...]
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Saturday, October 15th, 2005
Category: Fantasy
Iron Council by China Miéville
It’s not often that I simply give up on a book, but I gave up on this one about halfway through. It’s a shame, too, because I thoroughly enjoyed Miéville’s other fantasies that I’ve read, Perdido Street Station and The Scar. In previous novels, he’s shown himself to be [...]
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The last time I ever saw protesters at a movie was when my parents took me to see Dragonslayer way back when that film was released in the early 80’s, and that was a gag protest; members of the Society for Creative Anachronisms had dressed up as dragons and were carrying around signs that said [...]
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It seems that every time something good comes along, something else comes along (usually in the form of a money-hungry lout or a misinformed idiot) to try to spoil it. The great comic book Spawn, for example, might be forced to cease publication because some football player took offense at the name used as one [...]
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