Sue Brooks (dir.) “Japanese Story.”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001L3LUO/ref=benhourigan-co20 2003. 2/10 I was determined not to like this film, and so, unsurprisingly, I didn’t. On one level, this is a film about a woman’s being forced to face and accept the reality of death. That part of it, which occupies the last twenty minutes or so, is mildly emotionally [...]
Pixar. The Incredibles. 2004. 9/10 Last night, I finally saw The Incredibles. A while ago, I read “a review”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.asp of the movie by David Kelley of “The Objectivist Center”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/index.asp, an organisation that promotes and investigates the philosophy of Ayn Rand. It assessed the movie pretty accurately, so I won’t go into detail: read “Kelley’s review”:http://www.objectivistcenter.org/articles/dkelley_rff-the-incredibles.asp [...]
“Arthur Conan Doyle.”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle “A Study in Scarlet.”:http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9556 1887. Project Gutenberg. Audiobook. There’s a pattern in my media consumption habits: get very close to the end of something, then put it aside for months, only to finish it off when I’ve got some spare time. I downloaded this audiobook when I was working non-stop on my [...]
Ubisoft Montreal Studios. “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.”:http://www.mobygames.com/game/sheet/p,14/gameId,11185/ 2003. Ubisoft Entertainment. Gamecube, PAL. This game spent a long time on my “currently reading” pile (okay, so you don’t read a videogame, but there are books on that pile, too), unplayed, and then the latest issue of “Edge”:http://www.edge-online.com (#146) published a reminiscence on the [...]
On this bumper posting day (it being the weekend and all, and I am waiting for my laptop-repartitioning project to finish, so I can have have a go at playing “Lineage”:http://www.lineage.com on it), it’s worth commenting on the “reviews” I’ve posted and will continue post in the future. Basically, they’re not really reviews at all, [...]
Given that many parents and teachers are among “those who want us to obey and be humble and submit†(355), they may not be keen on recommending that children read this book, but every child should (and adults would be well advised to, as well). It will help readers to learn to live their lives for themselves, and comfort those who already have. 9/10
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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