All Consuming : mike

A review of "This Is Not Civilization" (rated 4 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (mike) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:00:33 GMT

by Robert Rosenberg

A quick read, this book (like the characters in it) travels from Arizona to Kyrgyzstan to Isanbul, presenting all the while a compelling story and interesting people. Worth it.

A story about "Syriana (Widescreen Edition)"

nobody@allconsuming.net (mike) — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:58:20 GMT

Syriana (Widescreen Edition)

by Stephen Gaghan

I couldn’t figure out what was going on here, but also none of the characters in the movie was compelling enough to make me want to figure out what was going on here. Bah.

Too much architecture (rated 2 stars)

nobody@allconsuming.net (mike) — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:48:39 GMT

Inside Cuba

by Julio Cesar Perez Hernandez

Mostly this is a book of photos of buildings. It’s a very well-constructed book, even a beautiful book, but I would like it much better if there were pictures of things that weren’t (mostly empty) buildings.