All Consuming



I'm currently reading 5 books, listening to 4 albums, watching 1 movie, eating and drinking 0 food items, and consuming 0 other things.

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Complete with sleazy emo Spiderman! — 2 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

Decent movie, but lacking a quality the others had. No way I’ll watch 4 if it’s not going to have James Franco in it.

A story about "Messengers" — 2 years ago

A pretty good movie, but I was disappointed in the fact that 99% of the climatic moments I had already seen in the trailer.

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Stop with the singing! — 2 years ago

I liked this album until I got to the songs where there is more singing. “The Party” and “DVNO” pretty much ruined it for me, I don’t like their voices and hated the lyrics. Otherwise it is a good electronic/dance album.

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Oh does it? — 2 years ago

First off, I love the regular version of Brazil and even wrote a paper on it last semester. However, this set also contains an alternate cut, the “Love Conquers All” version. It’s basically a version of the film with all the changes the studio wanted but Terry Gilliam refused to do.

This alternate cut is so pieced together that it is almost as if you are watching a 90 minute trailer of the regular version. The only reason to watch this cut is for the novelty of seeing how a good movie can be completely botched.

I’ll stick with the real thing, the way Gilliam intended it.

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No Flow — 2 years ago

Isn’t it proper in a biography to consistently refer to the subject by the same name? In this book Dearborn switches back and forth from “Norman” and “Mailer” constantly, which I find to be quite annoying. She also dances around the timeline way too much, often without reason.
Another big frustration I had was her punctuation usage: the sentences don’t carry a good rhythm, some not even making sense on a re-read. And yet she points out one instance of Mailer’s grammar as “odd” (the example wasn’t at all odd to me, in fact it made perfect sense).
The epilogue of the book seems to be random, a place to put everything that didn’t fit elsewhere. In the first few paragraphs of the epilogue it appears Dearborn has switched the tense in which she refers to Mailer. Throughout most of the book the tense goes with the timeline, but here, approaching present time, it could be said she’s speaking of him as if he were dead for a few paragraphs, then switches back to the previous tense used.

Overall, the book does have some interesting information about the life of one of America’s greatest writers. But most of the information could be found elsewhere more easily. This book just doesn’t flow the way I think it should.

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Why I recommend "Empire Falls" — 2 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

Perhaps my favorite line from any novel, ever: “Home,” C.B. said, loading the revolver. “I’m anxious to see my wife.”

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A review of "Catch and Release" — 2 years ago

NOT WORTH CONSUMING

This movie is full of underdeveloped characters whose actions make no sense.

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Why I recommend "Immortality" — 2 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

This is a movie that captures your attention from the first scene; and it never releases it.

It’s really a pity more people haven’t watched it.

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A review of "The Stolen Child: A Novel" — 2 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

I really liked this book throughout the first half, then it seemed like it became sort of dull and predictable, and I was just ready for the end.

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How "Cold Comfort Farm" changed my life — 2 years ago

WORTH CONSUMING!

I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

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