Thursday, January 29, 2009

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain IV

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Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough Puts out, and J...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Thomas H. Cook: Breakheart Hill

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Thomas H. Cook's Breakheart Hill was recommended to me by a friend. This is the first one by him that I've read, and frankly, I pr...
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Monday, January 26, 2009

Combination Plate: Books and Films

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BOOKS: Batya Gur (1947-2005): The Saturday Morning Murder , the first in her short series (six novels) of police procedurals set in Jerus...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Kim Stanley Robinson: The Martians

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I just finished Kim Stanley Robinson's collection of short stories, The Martians . It consists of numerous short works, all related t...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Science Fiction: What if...? or If this goes on...

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Many years ago, in an intro to an SF book, the author suggested that there were two broad types or categories of SF. One asked "What i...
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Friday, January 9, 2009

Akira Kurosawa: East and West

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It was Kipling who wrote: O H, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet. I don't know what Kipling would think to...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Sleuth: a puzzling title

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Sleuth , as I stated above, is a puzzling title for this film. I was expecting a murder mystery or at least some sort of detective story, ...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009

J. R. R. Tolkien: 1892-1973

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J. R. R. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 and died September 2, 1973. He wrote The Silmarillion , The Hobbit , and The Lord of the Rings....
Friday, January 2, 2009

Isaac Asimov: 1920-1992

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Isaac Asimov was born on Jan. 2, 1920 in Petrovichi, Russia, and died on April 6, 1992. In his 72 years, he wrote or edited over 500 books. ...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008

GREETINGS

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HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL! MAY 2009 BRING YOU MORE PEACE AND CONTENTMENT THAN 2008.
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Sinclair Lewis--ARROWSMITH

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I had read Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt and Main Street , so I fully expected him to sharpen up his pen and go after the medical profession ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2008

GREETINGS

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PEACE ON EARTH ...
Sunday, December 21, 2008

The Rubaiyat: Quatrain III

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Quatrain III, from the First Version: And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted--"Open then the Door! You know ...
Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ford Madox Ford: December 17, 1873 – June 26, 1939

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Born on this day in 1873 is one of my favorite novelists, Ford Madox Ford. His novel The Good Soldier is permanently installed in my top...
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Monday, December 15, 2008

Torchwood--CSI meets the X-Files

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Torchwood is a British TV SF series that is described as a spin-off of Doctor Who , the modern series. I gather that's because of th...
Friday, December 12, 2008

Akutagawa's short story: In a Grove (cont.)

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In October 2008, I posted an entry about Akutagawa's short story, "In A Grove." According to the translator, he based his sto...
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Monday, December 8, 2008

Robert Silverberg--Project Pendulum

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Robert Silverberg's Project Pendulum , is, unfortunately, a relatively lightweight time travel tale published first in 1987. It's a...
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Friday, December 5, 2008

Sin City--UltraViolence?

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Sin City is another entry in the apparently ever-increasing number of films that are based on either comics or graphic novels. I haven...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Mystery of Cloomber

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I ran into a reference to this work, The Mystery of Cloomber, quite by accident, searching for something else. I know Doyle had written ot...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

Brideshead Revisited

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Brideshead Revisited is one of the BBC's dramatic productions which appeared in the US on Masterpiece Theatre . I watched about half...
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