I am continually amazed at E’s ability to write such reflective lyrics and such catchy music. This album showcased his tremendous growth as an artist and vulnerability as a person. A really fine album.

This book left a lot to be desired. It lacked heart. It is difficult to engage a reader in such a heady and esoteric topic as religion without offering some sympathetic characters to get invested in. But this novel, populated by the egotistical and the down right boring, doesn’t contain a single charcater for the reader to identify with or root for.

Kirn has tackled the idea of religious disillusionment, dependency, and vehemence far more eloquently in his previous novels. Look to them for the spark that Mission to America lacks.

I bought this book because I got tired of reading heavy sociology texts and needed a quick, light distraction.

This book totally did the trick. Formatted to look like an online quiz, “Are You a Geek?” has eleven sections, with titles like “Lifestyle” and “communication Skills.” Each contains a list of statements you get points for agreeing with like “You sex life was transformed when you got a broadband connection.” (2 points) And at the end you tally your poits and find out whether you’re a geek, uber-geek, nerd, or nerdmeister general.

I am proud to say I scored in the geek range, just as I’d hoped I would.

I breezed through this book in a matter of hours and it delivered all the laughs and fun I desperately needed.

This well writen and excellently told story documents the author’s life long struggle with dyslexia.

Aside form the superb writing, the book itself provides the reader with incentive to keep reading. When Simpson begins the book with a series of horrfying elementary school embaressments related to her inablity to read, you simply marvel that that little girl was able to compose the book you have in your hands. You want to know how that girl became the eleoquent writer who is wrapping you up in her story.

Highly recommended.

Really, did the 80’s produce many songs better than
“Hungry Like the Wolf” or “Rio?” This album is full of
awesome synthesized, velvet voiced LeBon tunes, and I
just know I will have “New Moon on Monday” on repeat
in my CD player for the next month!

I fell in love with Edie Brickell and New Bohemians in
high school. “Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars” and
“Ghost of a Dog” were just poppy enough, rockin
enough, emotive enough, and light hearted enough to
move my 14 years old self. I played those albums to
death.

The Edie went solo, and her first effort “Picture
Perfect Morning” was flat enough to convince me it
wasn’t worth the dinero to invest in any of her
subsequent tries. The lyrics were too trite and
nonsensical even for her, and the music was completely
uninspired. The whole thing just left me cold, and
that was saddening because I had been hoping for
another guitar driven, off the wall record (do people
even use that word any more?) like the ones she
released with New Bohemains.

So when I saw they’d all gotten back together, it
spark a little flame of hope in me. Hope that I might
get some of that pop/rock melodic goodness I’d been
missing for so long.

My friends, Edie and the New Bohemians did not
disappoint me. This record might actually be stronger
than any of their previous ones. The music, while
still guitar driven and groovy, is a little more
complex, with a fuller sound and more clarity. Edie’s
lyrics are more mature and coherent than they have
ever been. I think she is someone who really needs the
feedback of a group in order to write effective songs.
Most of the tunes have this untangible quality of
being both jamming and mellow at the same time, like
you could rock out if you wanted to, or just have it
in the background while you focused on something else.

All in all, I was greatly pleased with this album and
think fans will appreciate it.

This is the first of Ishiguro that I’ve read and I’m just stunned at what a masterful writer he is.

This is a very deliberate novel. There isn’t an ounce of extraneous language contained within its pages. Every word, every sentence is tight and clean. Every scene builds up to the next. Having read so much sloppy contemporary fiction, it was SO refreshing to read a tale spun by someone who knows how to use language and structure to his advantage.

A great read. Interesting subject matter. Highly recommended.

Features a host of strong actors, but the story is overly melodramatic to the point of hilarity. If you must take in an Andy Garcia, Vincent Kartheiser, or Linda Cardellini performance, rent one of their better films.

I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Nafisis’s prose are translucent, firm, and poetic. Her meandering and reflective way of writing enhances the book’s sense of longing. That’s what to story is all about, really. Longing for love, happiness, freedom, entertainment, individuality, direction, faith, and ideology.

Personally, I found the secret class that opens and closes the book, far less interesting than the chapters on Gatsby and James which focus more on Nafisi’s time teaching at the university, and how she related to a student body raised on a form of morality laced political ideology she found unbearably restrictive. I thought those chapters far more rich and thought provoking than the chapters on Lolita and Austen.

Even so, I never wanted to put the book down. I was engaged throughout, and would definitely recommend this to a wide range of people, from those interested in literary theory to those enjoy memoir, or even those who love tales full of intrigue. This is an incredibly well rounded book. There is a little something for just about everyone in it.

I’m a huge Sarah Mclachlan fan, but this album was a big disappointment to me. “World on Fire” and “Train Wreck” were the only tracks that stood out to me. The rest of the songs sounded so similar they all blended into one another. I tend to think she found out what worked for her back in 1993 and has been trying to do the exact same stuff ever since. I wish she would take more risks like she did on her earlier albums.