The story of a college dropout who falls in love with a married woman. The only trouble is that her husband happens to be a homicidal maniac. He gets away with constant murder by running a circus that is always on the move. Water for Elephants is a so over the top that I found myself waiting for the clichéd ending a good thirty minutes before it happened. The madman/ring master abuses his wife, kicks dogs, beats an elephant bloody, murders countless people, and yet no one ever even thinks of trying to stop him or reporting him to local…
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The King’s Speech
The King’s Speech has received various awards and nominations, including twelve Academy Award nominations (the highest number of nominations in 2011), seven Golden Globe nominations, fourteen BAFTA nominations and wins from various critics’ circles. –Wikipedia I was expecting The King’s Speech to be a good movie, and I am often disappointed by movies I think will be good. Not this time. The King’s Speech was great. It’s an almost literal fairy tale of a Price who becomes a King through no real desire or action of his own. First his father, played by Sir Michael-Dumbledore-Gambon, goes a bit mad and…
One Second After
“I’ll sleep with you for a meatball.” Julia Andrews said in Victor/Victoria. But that deal falls flat when there are no longer any meatballs to trade. One Second After by William R Forstchen is a blow by blow account of how one idyllic little community in the hills of North Carolina becomes a Masada under seige from the rest of America after an EMP attack knocks out all modern electronics. This is a Conservative fairy tale, where everything would have been fine if everyone had voted Republican, kept a stockpile of weapons in the basement, and drove a classic car…
How Starbucks Saved My Life
I found this odd little book of a rich man who loses everything and ends up working at a Starbucks kind of fun. Who doesn’t like a My How The Mighty Have Fallen story? In this case it’s an evil Madison Avenue Ad Man who was handed a job by a friend of a friend after his graduation from an Ivy League College. After forty years of living the good life, driving fancy cars, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, wearing two thousand dollar suits-he is fired from his high roller job. At first he isn’t too worried. But…