Preliminary Results of Backlog Meme
Oct. 22nd, 2006 10:36 pmFrom the last entry. Still taking book and movie review requests! Really, you'll be doing me a favor.
Please ignore bad spelling and grammar, these were typed directly into the "reply to comment" field.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Roger Delany, The Fall of the Towers
Allegra Goodman, Intuition
Diana Wynn Jones, The Magicians of Caprona/Witch Week
Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
Celestine Vaite, Breadfruit
TELEVISION REVIEW:
Veronica Mars season 3
MOVIE REVIEWS:
Willard
Plan 9 From Outer Space
( Who Killed Vincent Chin? )
Who Killed Vincent Chin is a 1996 documentary about...the death of Vincent Chin? That stuff above, behind the cut, was written for class ("pretend you are writing a 25th anniversary op/ed piece about why Vincent Chin shouldn't be forgotten...incidentally, being published in a major newspaper is extra points :D:D:D"). It's not really about the documentary, which can best be described as INCREDIBLY CREEPY OMFG. I really wasn't kidding when I said Ron Ebens is a sociopath. To hear him tell it, if he had just happened to have gone to the game that day, and not to the club, Vincent Chin needn't have died. Really, it's just bad luck that they ran into each other and he ended up swinging that baseball bat! It could have happened to anyone. What he really regrets is that he was locked up on Father's Day -- because that's really terrible, isn't it, to not be home for Father's Day.
Please ignore bad spelling and grammar, these were typed directly into the "reply to comment" field.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
Roger Delany, The Fall of the Towers
Allegra Goodman, Intuition
Diana Wynn Jones, The Magicians of Caprona/Witch Week
Tom Robbins, Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas
Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
Celestine Vaite, Breadfruit
TELEVISION REVIEW:
Veronica Mars season 3
MOVIE REVIEWS:
Willard
Plan 9 From Outer Space
( Who Killed Vincent Chin? )
Who Killed Vincent Chin is a 1996 documentary about...the death of Vincent Chin? That stuff above, behind the cut, was written for class ("pretend you are writing a 25th anniversary op/ed piece about why Vincent Chin shouldn't be forgotten...incidentally, being published in a major newspaper is extra points :D:D:D"). It's not really about the documentary, which can best be described as INCREDIBLY CREEPY OMFG. I really wasn't kidding when I said Ron Ebens is a sociopath. To hear him tell it, if he had just happened to have gone to the game that day, and not to the club, Vincent Chin needn't have died. Really, it's just bad luck that they ran into each other and he ended up swinging that baseball bat! It could have happened to anyone. What he really regrets is that he was locked up on Father's Day -- because that's really terrible, isn't it, to not be home for Father's Day.