Review: Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson

Posted by Cynical Sarah on March 8, 2010

Cryptonomicon is a book my husband picked up a while ago. I discovered it on our dusty bookshelf and decided to give it a look.

This book is 1,130 pages long, and I do mean long. Only through sheer will did I make it through the first 200-300 pages to finally get to the point where I was hooked and needed to see how the rest of the story was going to play out. (I’m pretty sure Troy didn’t make it to that point. A dog-eared Page 263 marks where he gave up.)

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‘Prelude to Mars’ by Arthur C. Clarke

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 27, 2010

I initially picked this book up for my brother last summer at a garage sale intending to give it to him when I saw him at Christmas. The months between those two points erased it from my memory, however, and I picked it off the book shelf in January for something to do in my free time.

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The Assassination of Jesse James

Posted by Cynical Sarah on May 28, 2008

One of America’s most romanticized bad buys is Jesse James. He was the Robin Hood of the “Old West” age of the United States and has since become one of those larger than life historical figures.

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Transformers

Posted by Cynical Sarah on April 14, 2008

One of the biggest Saturday morning cartoons when I was a kid was the Transformers. I would have sworn on a stack of bibles that I’d watched that cartoon as a kid too, but when I sat down to watch the movie the other night, I didn’t remember any of the salient details beyond the [...]

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 10, 2008

A few months ago I happened to stumble upon an article about Johnny Depp taking on a role in a musical that was going to be directed by Tim Burton. It’s certainly not a surprise to see Depp and Burton teaming up for a project again, but I was surprised to see it was Sweeney Todd.

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