Remember when the big movies coming out that everyone was excited about weren't remakes, or reboots, or based on a comic book or video game or brand name or fairy tale or popular book series? Well, maybe this is 80's nostalgia after all... Stranger Things not only has the refreshing attribute of being something new, despite …
Death’s End, by Cixin Liu: Mindblowing scope
The final book in the Three Body Trilogy, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth's Past)Â does not disappoint. Once again my mind is reeling from the barrage of amazing ideas and concepts that blasted me one after the other after the other as I listened to this book. I don't even know where to begin. If you've …
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Inside Out: unsettling, sad, and damn good
It's been a long while since I watched a kids movie, and it seems they've improved quite a bit during that time. Not only was the animation amazing and lovely to look at, but the ideas were thought provoking, interesting, and somewhat unsettling, even for me seeing it as an adult. The story of Inside Out follows …
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Imagine no possessions…
Ursula K. Le Guin did, in The Dispossessed, which I just finished listening to. This book was described to me as the anti Atlas Shrugged, which made me instantly buy it without hearing anything else. It holds up to this description by being of reasonable length, by having realistic, likable characters, and by describing ideas …
Pre-ordering a book?
I just pre-ordered Death's End by Cixin Liu on audible. I can't remember the last time I was so excited for a book, and I have never pre-ordered a book before! It seems I'm always finding a series years after it's been completed. But this one has made me wait painfully long for the conclusion, …
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