Tag: arts
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The Humans – A Book Review
A friend recommended I give The Humans a read, so I thought I’d give it a try. Written by Matt Haig, The Humans is about a mathematician who is killed and replicated by an alien. The alien must eradicate anyone the mathematician shared vital information with concerning a breakthrough concerning prime numbers. The alien’s race…
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Snowpiercer – A Movie Review
Primal, captivating, and unique, Snowpiercer is honestly unlike anything I’ve ever seen. The premise is simple. Mankind, in an effort to reverse global warming, succeeded all too well – it sent the world into a deep freeze. Snowpiercer is an incredibly long train that shelters the last of humanity. The tail of the train houses the less…
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The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell – A Book Review
Like you, I felt excited to read The Bone Clocks because David Mitchell also wrote Cloud Atlas. Now, I’ll be honest, I consider Cloud Atlas one of the more difficult books I’ve ever read, and, as a former English major, that’s saying something. In fact, I really didn’t decide that I liked Cloud Atlas until…
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Black Orchid by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean – A Book Review
Originally published in the early Nineties, Black Orchid is an early work of Neil Gaiman. It debuted long before his rise to fame as a novelist, a children’s author, and a luminary within the comic book industry. True to form, I just now read it in the year 2014. Decades later, Black Orchid still impressed…
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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – A Book Review
I promise to reveal nothing secretive about this book during my review, for to give away even a single detail will likely ruin the experience as a whole to the new reader. I will simply say this: the first half of the book is utter genius. I can’t recall of late a time I found…
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