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Castle in the Air (review)

By Ben Hourigan On 2006-03-12 · Leave a Comment

Diana Wynne Jones, “Castle in the Air”:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0064473457/ref=benhourigan-co20 (1990; London: Collins, 2001), 285pp. ★★★ (3 stars) Pleasant but insubstantial sequel to Howl’s Moving Castle, with an Arabian Nights flavour. This sequel to “Howl’s Moving Castle”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2005/12/04/howls-moving-castle/ begins at quite a distance from its predecessor’s very English setting in the Kingdom of Ingary. Its hero, Abdullah, hails from [...]

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Before Sunset (review)

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-03-6 · 3 Comments

Before Sunset. DVD. Directed by Richard Linklater. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2004. 7/10 This movie is the sequel to Linklater’s earlier Before Sunrise (1995), in which Jesse (Ethan Hawke), an American, meets young a young French woman, Celine (Julie Delpy), on a train to Vienna, and spends a night with her before they have to part [...]

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (review)

By Ben Hourigan On 2005-02-5 · Leave a Comment

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 [...]

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    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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