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Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Review: There is a villain caged in the prison system with a laundry list of crimes against the world. His skin is impermeable to bullets. His movements are a blur. His mind operates at a level not seen since Einstein or Feynman. This is his twelfth incarceration and he is about to break out and try to conquer the world. Again. There was the time he hypnotized the President. The time he took over Chemical Bank. The time he imitated the Pope. The Senate was called to order but he froze them. He even held the Moon hostage. The Moon. He calls himself Doctor Impossible. The rest of the world knows him as as a supervillain.

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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Review: Liz Gilbert, socialite, author, journalist, realizes her life is spiraling out of control. As her marriage falls apart, she begins to question her direction. Rock bottom starts to appear when she finds herself searching for answers on the floor of her bathroom. She claws through the rest of her divorce and tries to hold herself together. Solace comes in the form a new lover, but even this turns into a tumultuous relationship. She orbits this man in an erratic spiral, and, just before she enters the atmosphere in a fiery ball destined to burn up and fall to the earth a charred and useless rock, she comes to a decision. Read the rest of this entry »

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Review: The world has turned to gray. The sky remains the same color of leaden despair day after day. The ground smolders, powdered in ash and the charred remains of civilization. When night descends, the land is engulfed in a darkness more complete than anything one can imagine. At times there is the faint flicker of a light, solitary and weak, hopeful and hopeless. The light belongs to a boy and his father. The two travel through post-apocalyptic America on the concrete remnants of our vast highway system, pushing before them a grocery cart filled with their meager supplies. Read the rest of this entry »