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Items DoctorTeeth consumed in…

May, 2008



  1. Thursday 1

  2. Friday 2
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    Iron Man — 6 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: comics sci-fi superhero marvel warren ellis singles iron man

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    Iron Man — 3 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: fiction comics superhero marvel trade paperback iron man

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    Road to Bali — 8 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: adventure comedy romance musical tcm


  3. Saturday 3

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    Iron Man — 942 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: action film adaptation superhero iron man


  4. Wednesday 7
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    If Beale Street Could Talk — 5 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: fiction culture america romance family society


  5. Thursday 8

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    QI Series 4 (D) — 4 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: comedy british tv bbc trivia

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    From Here to Eternity — 1375 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: drama romance war tcm

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    X-Men — 1 person

    Tagged: fiction fantasy comics superhero marvel x-men

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    Brick — 903 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: mystery drama crime dvd


  6. Friday 9
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    My Voyage to Italy — 44 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: documentary movies dvd italy


  7. Saturday 10
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    Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist — 16 people

    Tagged: music fiction adventure young adult romance angst


  8. Sunday 11
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    Up in Honey's Room — 3 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: fiction espionage war


  9. Monday 12

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    Age Of Empires III — 11 people

    Tagged: games video game strategy pc

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    Joe's Garage — 18 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: experimental rock cd funk


  10. Tuesday 13

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    Civilization IV — 23 people

    Tagged: games video game strategy pc


  11. Thursday 15
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    Jaws (Widescreen Anniversary Collector's Edition) — 4824 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: thriller suspense dvd 101 movies


  12. Saturday 17

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    Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits — 4 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: music comedy cd

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    Dig Me Out — 117 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: rock indie emusic


  13. Sunday 18

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    Primeval - Season One — 2 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: adventure action british sci-fi tv dinosaurs


  14. Tuesday 20
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    It's Not Big It's Large — 8 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: country folk jazz cd

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    The God Who Wasn't There — 20 people

    Tagged: history religion documentary mythology dvd christianity atheism


  15. Wednesday 21
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    Repulsion — 757 people

    Tagged: thriller dvd


  16. Thursday 22
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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — 14 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: fantasy comedy vhs


  17. Saturday 24
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    Asking for Flowers — 5 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: canadian country folk cd


  18. Monday 26

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    Pabst Blue Ribbon — 87 people

    Not worth consuming Tagged: alcohol beer beverage

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    Musicophilia — 16 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: music psychology non-fiction science neurology


  19. Tuesday 27
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    Spook — 43 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: non-fiction history science spirituality ghosts


  20. Thursday 29
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    The Lady Eve - Criterion Collection — 913 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: black & white comedy romance dvd screwball


  21. Saturday 31
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    Talking Book — 253 people

    Worth consuming! Tagged: soul cd r&b funk


Entries about these items

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    Spook: The Search For This Book's Soul — 18 weeks ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    Mary Roach’s Spook is an examination of how science (and pseudo-science) have studied the after-life and the soul. The book is in the same vein as her previous book, Stiff, and so it draws a lot of comparisons, most of them not in this books’ favour. Spook just isn’t as engaging a read as Stiff, but I don’t think it’s because of Roach’s writing. The subject matter’s just not as compelling. The various ways that scientists (and other people) tried to measure or demonstrate the existence of soul – through complicated weight scales and containers, ectoplasmic tendrils, and out-of-body experiences – are interesting, but some chapters sometimes leave you wanting a little more. A step down from her previous effort, but still a good book.

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    Musicophilia: A Mind for Music — 21 weeks ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    Oliver Sacks has long been one of my favourite science authors; he weaves together the human and the clinical elements of his case stories with grace. Musicophilia, though, is RIGHT up my street. It combines a number of subjects that I’m interested in: psychology, neurology, language, and music. There are so many interesting stories and concepts from it, like the musician who had a stroke and then lost the ability to percieve music as music, just noise, or theories of how absolute pitch works in the brain. It’s a little short on the human aspect, which was a little disappointing. Overall, though, the combination of music and science really worked for me.

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    Up In Honey's Room: Lukewarm Leonard — 23 weeks ago

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    I love Elmore Leonard, but Up In Honey’s Room might be the first of his books that I’ve found disappointing. It might be due to the fact that he keeps referencing another one of his books (The Hot Kid) all the way through it; if I’d known that this was a follow-up to that novel I would have read it first. Or it might be because the characters just don’t pop the way they do in books like Rum Punch, Mr. Majestyk, or Out of Sight. The story’s interesting enough: a top-notch FBI agent tries to catch a German POW in the last days of WWII, and gets tangled up with a spy ring, black market beef, and a sexy and complicated blonde. Sounds like a great combination for Leonard, but it’s not nearly as good as he’s capable of. On its own merits the book is decent, but I was expecting more from a writer of Leonard’s caliber.

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    Nick & Norah: Ah, The Folly Of Youth — 29 weeks ago

    Getting this out right away: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist is not directed at me. At 29, I am nearly twice the age of this book’s ideal reader. That being said: I found the book to be incredibly mediocre.

    The only reason I picked this book up was that when I was reading about the upcoming movie, I saw a review that said it was “High Fidelity for the iPod Generation”. Oh brother, is it ever NOT. On the surface, maybe: they’re both about people trying to cope with breakups and have music at the heart of them. After that, the similarities quickly vanish.

    I won’t go into too much detail: after a gig, Nick sees his ex-girlfriend and asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes to avoid her. Which leads to a crazy night of adventures and moping. I had a really hard time with the moping and the “too cool” attitude of the main characters sometimes, but I wrote it off as not being a teenager any more so I tried not to let it bother me. What I couldn’t get past, though, was the writing. Authors David Levithan and Rachel Cohn traded off for each chapter; Levithan writing Nick’s chapters and Cohn writing Norah’s. That was actually a really interesting idea, and it made for interesting reading when you tried to analyze how they fit together. I liked Cohn’s style, and might even consider tracking down some of her other work, but Levithan’s writing just kept grating on me, so much so that I tried just skipping Nick’s chapters for a while (which didn’t work).

    Overall, this wasn’t a terrible book, so it wasn’t an ordeal to finish, but I really didn’t like it either. A reader ten or fifteen years younger would probably dig it, though.

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    If Beale Street Could Talk: The Ballad of Fonny and Tish — 24 weeks ago

    WORTH CONSUMING!

    I’d had the novel If Beale Street Could Talk (by James Baldwin) on my bookshelf for a while; it was one of the many books I rescued from my parents’ storeroom before they gave them all to Goodwill. When I finally read it, I found it was not what I’d expected from the cover. “A masterpiece about the love between a man and a woman…” it said on the cover: not my idea of a great read, if you want to know the truth. It made it seem like a high-class romance novel. It is decidedly not. It is about love between a man and a woman, but it is also about race and family bonds in lower-class New York City. It wasn’t something I really liked, per se, but it was a well-written book. While I can’t speak for the book’s authenticity, it really seemed like Baldwin had captured the setting rather well, and the dialogue was top-notch. A good book, but not something I’d necessarily want to read again.

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