Reviews
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Book Review: Road to Perdition
Having reviewed the movie a couple of weeks ago,Let us now examine the graphic novel that inspired the movie. Authored by Max Allan Collins and with artwork from Richard Piers Rayner, this book is a black-and-white work of art, a film noir in print. It is a tale of a mob enforcer, Michael Sullivan and Read more
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Book Review: At the Stroke of Madness
This was the first time I’ve read a novel by Alex Kava. Once again, it is a story of a sleuth, on the trail of a twisted serial killer. The sleuth is Maggie O’Dell, an FBI agent, apparently a fixture in most Kava books. As the story begins, O’Dell comes to Connecticut to search for Read more
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Book Review: Innovate like Edison
Sometimes, the best nuggets are found hidden in the bargain rack of your local Borders bookstore. That was exactly where I found this book, that for some reason, seems to have slipped the bestseller radar. From the bestselling author Michael Gelb who produced ‘How To Innovate like Leonardo Da Vinci’ comes this hidden jewel. While Read more
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Movie Review: The Road to Perdition
With the passing of Hollywood heavyweight Paul Newman on Friday, I thought that it would a fitting tribute to review this forgotten masterpiece, today. Based on a graphic novel by Max Allan Collins, the movie stars academy award winners Tom Hanks and Newman. Jude Law also appears in the movie in a smaller role. Director: Read more
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Book Review: Freakonomics
I loved every moment of reading this book. It is outlandish and out of the ordinary. However, there was one facet, or lack thereof that stood out. It was the lack of a cohesive theme. All the anecdotes and stories broadly and somewhat loosely fall into the category of ‘Hidden details that tell the real Read more
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Movie Review: What the Bleep do we know?
Any New Age fanatic who sees this movie will ask himself, ‘Why did it take so long to come up with this one? I finally got to satisfy my curiosity about this one, after hearing enough rave reviews from many of my eclectic friends. (I have several.) This is a part story, part documentary that Read more
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