The book was pretty good, although it's pretty clear, having read a few of Dan Brown's books, that he is a one-trick pony - see, for example, the first few chapters of both Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, where nearly the exact same thing happens. I'm wary of Ron Howard - he's responsible for both Arrested Development and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Tom Hanks - well, whatever, I like him. But let's just have props for the casting director to get both Jean Reno and Audrey Tatou involved.
The book was pretty good, although it's pretty clear, having read a few of Dan Brown's books, that he is a one-trick pony - see, for example, the first few chapters of both Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, where nearly the exact same thing happens. I'm wary of Ron Howard - he's responsible for both Arrested Development and How The Grinch Stole Christmas. Tom Hanks - well, whatever, I like him. But let's just have props for the casting director to get both Jean Reno and Audrey Tatou involved.
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Farewell, LJ
So I guess I'm retiring this blog. Part of me feels like I need to make some sort of eulogy or something; part of me just wants to move on already.…
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Catching up
The first sentence of this post was "Finally, some breathing room," and then as I was in the middle of the second sentence I got handed…
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Kinda hard to imagine Thomas Pynchon (and not, say, Tom Robbins) writing this paragraph, but there it is on p. 99 of "Inherent Vice":…
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