Oh, thank you so much, truck driver with a heart of gold who is always looking for “better routes” to save energy costs and bring the savings back to us, the customers. This would all be so much more honorable and heartwarming if I hadn’t seen you on a Wrangler Jeans commercial 20 minutes...
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2 Sentence Review: “Justified”
What started as a gritty look at an old school, bullseye-shootin’, catch phrase-spoutin’ sheriff taking on the white supremacists, drug runners, and other twisted shit going down in the bowels of Nashville has turned into a villain-of-the-week “Walker, Texas Ranger” with the missing character depth to prove it. And there’s not even any roundhouse...
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2 Sentence Review: Kick-Ass (The Movie)
Kick-Ass lives up to its name and delivers pure fun as it mixes comic book action (think: Spider-Man) with quirky teen movie (think: Juno) without trying too hard (think: Ghost World). The title character’s arsenal of self-deprecation and self-awareness manages to fight off the outwardly nerdy, secretly hip superhero plot clichés just long enough...
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2 Sentence Review: The 33-Year-Old Rookie
Welcome to minor league baseball, where men’s dreams are crushed yearly like bugs in the dust. Pro catcher Chris Coste delivers the 13 year tale of his expedition through independent league ball to the majors, and every stop in between, all the while making you wonder: was all of it really worth it just...
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2 Sentence Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Haunting, devastating, gut-wrenching story that runs at you with its arms outstretched and then viciously stabs you in the back with a corkscrew. This book takes the genre of family drama character studies and turns a scenario you’ve only heard about on the news into a relate-able punch in the stomach that makes you think...
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2 Sentence Review: Fifty-nine in ’84 by Edward Achorn
No, this is not the number of electoral college votes Walter Mondale received in his race against Ronald Reagan in 1984 (he could only wish-in fact, he received only 13 votes), but instead the number of games Hoss Radbourn won pitching for the Providence Grays in the 112 game National League season in 1884....
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2 Sentence Review: The Three Weissmanns of Westport by Cathleen Schine
The best Jane Austen book that Jane Austen didn’t write and if Austen had, it may be her best novel. Two fiftyish sisters and their mother are all forced for various reasons to leave Manhattan and share their cousin’s ramshackle cottage while they sort out individual and family issues and find new lives for...
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2 Sentence Review: First Love, Last Rites by Ian McEwan
Dark and disturbing. In First Love, Last Rites, Ian McEwan makes sex and violence look intriguing.
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2 Sentence Review: The Falklands Regime
What’s more unreadable than the cover of conservationist Mike Bingham’s story about saving the penguins of the Falkland Islands from commercial fishing industries, backed by the local corrupt government? The descriptive, highly graphic sexual encounters he narrates throughout the first half, in which penguins are barely mentioned at all.
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2 Sentence Review: The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Authors & Publishers take note: If the book’s about vampire(s) — especially Vlad the Impaler himself — you may as well profit off a series. An edited version of The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova would also be easier to lug around or read in bed. Buy on Amazon or at Alibris or download audiobook...
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