The Story of African Independence – Egypt
Obese and the arrogant nominal ruler of Egypt, King Farouk had all the trappings of wealth and then some with sprawling palaces, yachts, and a huge pornographic art collection. Playing poker in his palace on the night an alleged coup was supposed to take place, he brushed the speculation off calling the plotters a “bunch […]
The Way of the World by Ron Suskind
With all the competition from modern news outlets like twitter where information is doled out piecemeal and with such breathtaking pace as to make it almost impossible to verify the validity of sources traditional journalism has suffered and would seem a dead craft but for investigative journalists like Ron Suskind who seem to have carried […]
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Warning! This is a story of exhilarating and dangerous puppy love: John Grady Cole is sixteen and a cowboy who knows and loves horses. Grady’s grandfather dies and the ranch he was born on is to be sold. Grady decides he’d rather be a cowboy in the wilds of Mexico where he can continue to […]
Chaika – the Coffin Princess
All right, so for those who read my blog you’ll have sussed out that I’m a big anime fan. However, not everything works in anime and I can see lots of people being put off if they watch the wrong kind of this wholly Japanese export. The Japanese have made this art form their own […]
Tron Legacy (Film Review)
Summary: Sci-fi retro classic Tron gets an upgrade in its 2010 sequel Tron Legacy, but is far less contemporary than it’s 1982 original. Tron: Legacy Disney in 1982 intended for their Tron movie to be the cutting-edge special effects laden film that would take immediate advantage of the burgeoning video games arcade culture. They barely […]
The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson
The Myth In C.S Lewis’ God in The Dock the author explains of myth, “…the only realities we experience are concrete – this pain, this pleasure, this dog, this man. While we are loving the man, bearing the pain, enjoying the pleasure, we are not intellectually apprehending Pleasure, Pain or Personality… You cannot study Pleasure […]
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing, the second book in Cormac McCarthy’s the Border trilogy, continues the trend of self-reflection in the aftermath of grief.