Archive for July, 2010

2 Sentence Review: One Day by David Nicholls

July 5, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: One Day by David Nicholls

One Day, the latest book from David Nicholls (Starter for Ten, The Understudy), snapshots the lives of Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew – Em and Dex, Dex and Em – on St. Swithun’s Day over twenty years beginning with their first encounter on the night of their graduation from the University of Edinburgh.  A...
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2 Sentence Review: Cat Flushing a Toilet

July 3, 2010
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Listen, if this was as dumb as you think it is, then why would I have spent the last hour at my desk, laughing like a drunk baby?  Just click “play” and prepare yourself to enter a 47-second world where cats act like people and then look directly into the camera; you won’t be...
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2 Sentence Review: “Persons Unknown”

July 2, 2010
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2 Sentence Review: “Persons Unknown”

They’re all here: Struggling heroine, mysterious hero, camouflaged army guy, selfish coward, glamor girl, ugly girl, and Cameron Frye. They’re paper thin, they’re never going to be “Lost,” and their build up of mysteries before the inevitable trip down Revelation Mountain just isn’t going to hook you into watching seven blank character slates try to out-act...
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[Cut!] Not Any Old Tramp Stamp…

July 2, 2010
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[Cut!] Not Any Old Tramp Stamp…

When asked about your favorite band, you lift up the back of your shirt to reveal your huge Aerosmith tattoo?  Dream On, Sucker.  Cut!
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I Touch Their Poo: Life as an Urban Dog Wrangler

July 1, 2010
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I Touch Their Poo: Life as an Urban Dog Wrangler

I was hired as a dog walker the day the Eagles first signed Michael Vick. It was like getting drafted after a terrorist attack.
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