Well I wouldn't bother writing about this except that I made a point to write a post about EVERY movie I watched this year that I hadn't seen before. So, here goes. This movie was stupid, mean-spirited, thoughtless and lazy. And that coming from a fan of the original. It started out promising. The idea of …
Enemy, 2014
This was a weird one, and by the end of it, I'm not sure i really understand what was going on. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a boring history teacher, who, when watching a movie notices an actor that looks exactly like him. He tracks the actor down and finds that they seem to be exact doubles. …
The Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut
The Sirens of Titan was clever, fun and charming, as is everything by Vonnegut that I've read. And it also says a lot about how the world works. The plot centers on Malachi Constant, son of the luckiest man on Earth, who invested in the stock markets using the Bible as a guide telling him …
Ad lib writing
I haven't been doing a lot of writing lately, and what I have been doing has been completely improvised and for no purpose other than my own entertainment. Of course, I do hope other people end up enjoying it, but if they didn't and told me to stop, I wouldn't. It's sort of cathartic, liberating …
Citadel of the Autarch
I finally finished this amazing series, by Gene Wolfe.  I have been continually impressed by these books, and the conclusion was no different. These books all seemed to have a theme to them, or a focus. The first book I felt was more about the world, and though the story was exciting and interesting, I felt …
Jonas David 