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Atlas Shrugged movie in the works
Published 04-27-2006 10:38 PM | Mark
For years I've heard talk of Atlas Shrugged becoming a mini-series. But now, according to Variety , it looks like Lion's Gate has commited to adapting Rand's seminal novel into a two part film. I remember thinking that the scene in which Reardon's train...
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Review of Nelson DeMille's Night Fall - *
Published 03-13-2006 4:54 PM | Mark
Nelson DeMille is a gifted author of popular fiction who releases quality novels every two years without fail. The events of his plots are often directly tied to contemporary history, but don't get bogged down in it, always moving at a brisk, compelling...
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Rest in peace, Keith Parkinson
Published 03-10-2006 11:56 PM | Mark
I only learned today that Keith Parkinson passed away last year - October 29th, 2005. He was the pre-eminent fantasy artist and his works adorn many book covers. I actually have signed prints of two of the covers he did for [WIKIPEDIA:Terry Goodkind]...
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Great Ajax fights on
Published 12-19-2005 3:37 PM | Mark
Like a stubborn ass some boys lead down a road... stick after stick they've cracked across his back but he's too much for them now, he rambles into a field to ravage standing crops. They keep beating his ribs, splintering sticks - their struggle child...
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Blackness came swirling down over his eyes...
Published 12-10-2005 9:22 PM | Mark
A common death line from the translation of the Iliad I am currently re-reading. It would be difficult to overstate the Iliad's importance, as it marks the birth of the novel. Yes, the form is embryonic, and over the millennia we have greatly improved...
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Pressfield's Last of the Amazons
Published 10-31-2005 3:53 PM | Mark
Usually, I am pretty good at picking out books. And if I fail to pick a good one, I am quick to discard it. Last of the Amazons presents me with something of a dillemma. I am 132 pages in and I have yet to reach a point where I care what happens in the...
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Historical Fiction
Published 10-23-2005 2:15 PM | Mark
I have recently been on an ancient Greek historical fiction binge. I've read Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire , Tides of War , and Virtues of War . I've just finished Mary Renault's The King Must Die . Of the 4, Renault's novel is by far the best, a...
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The Greatajax.com ranking system
Published 06-07-2005 1:00 AM | xenophon
My system for rating films (Ill use it for books and video games as well) is similar to that of Leslie Halliwell . 0 stars. Don't waste your time. This movie will bore you, it's average hollywood junk or worse, with some combination of poor plotting,...
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