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Not only John Irving’s best since “Garp” but his novel most like “Garp“.  Last Night in Twisted River is another multi-generational family saga filled with great characters and situations you love to read about but hope never to personally experience.
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Mickey Rourke, either they left a bunch of your story on the cutting room floor, or you just tried to make as much as you could out of what they gave you, because there is not really any reason for your character to have been played by an A-list, Oscar-nominated actor just to show...
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Due to be released late 2010, Microsoft goes back to basics with its Windows 7 phone series.  At first glance, it’s beautiful and I want one.
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You know that globetrotting, people-meeting, mustachioed journalist fantasy you want to live one day? “Generation Kill” creator Evan Wright has lived it, and in this anthology of Rolling Stone pieces, his thorough, widespread writing introduces us to everyone from addicts and misanthropes to heroes and dog-fuckers, deepening one’s view of this sin and song-laden...
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If you are looking for an excuse never to buy a piece of jewelry, you must read How to Sell by Clancy Martin, a novel about two coke head brothers and the world of high end jewels. Probably based somewhat on fact because the author sold jewelry before going to writing school.
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Sazz Vintage in Old City, Philadelphia is by far the best spot for vintage apparel and accessories. The owner and assistants are the nicest and they will invite you to their warehouse sales in Port Richmond where you can jump into piles of vintage like the leaves your dad would rake on a fall...
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Teen dramas (read: The OC or Dawson’s Creek) plus town overcome by vampires (read: True Blood) equals a winning formula for guilty pleasures (see: Twilight series). Whether it’s the sibling rivalry between Salvatore brothers Damon (a/k/a Boone from Lost played by Ian Somerhalder) or Stefan (a/k/a Jack Bauer’s son-in-law played by Paul Wesley), Elena/Katherine, Elena’s witch...
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As retribution for their failed uprising against the Capitol, the twelve outlying districts of Panem must send two children to the Hunger Games, an Olympic-like spectacle and horrific form of mandatory entertainment. I dare you to stop reading after the 24 children enter into the large arena knowing they are under constant surveillance and...
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The blog’s entire purpose is right there in the title.  And the admin, Zoo With Roy, doesn’t care how many MS Paint art pieces, penguins, lion cubs, and images of baseball’s best pitcher it takes to convince you that his dream will one day come to what will most likely be a hilariously awkward...
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So, I guess the idea here is that with their respective NBC sitcoms still flying pretty high despite obvious declines, Carell and Fey can jerk out whatever quirky rom-com they want in exchange for big cash payoffs.  Many, many people will trust this combo to make something promising, but with writing like “I don’t...
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