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Reviewed Valkyrie Movie

"Freakish Tom Cruise "

Here is a tendency to pile on someone when they are down, and in the case of Tom Cruise it seems he may have abetted some of that with his freakishly self-righteous behavior in the public eye. His capital with his audience has been severely diminished, then, due to his public persona taking such...Read more

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Reviewed Zahir, The - Paulo Coelho

"Explore the emotions of the human souls"

"Zahir" is a journey across countries, oceans, and nations of people brings one fact to the surface: People crave feelings to share with others. Whether the state of being alone but not lonely or infatuation while pining for another''s affection, The Zahir explores the emotions of human souls wi...Read more

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Reviewed Winner Stands Alone, The - Paulo Coelho

Cannes:corrupt and glittering landscape

I used to know a guy who hated daylight saving time. Every time it rolled around, he devoted a week to denouncing it, along with corporate greed, artificially fertilized lawns, the American highway system and white bread. When his wife bought a loaf to make the kids' lunches, he hung it out the ...Read more

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Reviewed Not Even for Love - Sandra Brown

Similiar to a cheap harlequin romance novel,

"Not Even For Love.." is truly a throw-back 80's romance novel. Though it lacks in Sandra's usual in-depth character potrayals..it was a nice, quick Sunday read. Outcome is predicatable, so if you aren't into quick romance reads, you may want to check out some of her newest offerings. Not Eve...Read more

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Reviewed Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood

"Interpretation of time"

"Why do we remember the past, and not the future?", wonders Stephen W. Hawking in "A Brief History of Time". This seems to be the question that constantly echoes behind Atwood's writing in "Cat's Eye", and the axis around which the novel revolves. In attempting to present her own interpretati...Read more

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Reviewed Brida - Paulo Coelho

Male knowledge joins with female transformation,

*OK. Seldom do I need to finish reading a book, write areview, and return it to the library before midnight. This is going tobe an interesting experience. Usually after I arrive at the last pageof a book, I would revisit all the pages I noted that are pivoting tothe development of the story for ...Read more

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Reviewed Memoirs Of A Geisha - Arthur Golden

Kept women’

I decided to read this book because I was curious about what a geishaactually was. I know most'westerners' think them to be prostitutes, but to me that didn't seem to be the whole story. While they did striveto be ‘kept women’, they were also very skilled and cultured, who forthe most part enter...Read more

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Reviewed On The Road - Jack Kerouac

"Beat generation"

"On the Road" is a novel that makes the reader want to go out there, seize the day, and live, live, live! Jack Kerouac, creator of the "beat generation" best sums up his philosophy as "everything belongs to me because I am poor". The failure of ideology and of the American Dream in the 1960s gav...Read more

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Reviewed Cry, The Beloved Country - Alan Paton

Classic tale of dignity of mankind.

Cry, The Beloved Country, is aprofound, majestic novel that depicts South Africa during thepovertised years of British rule. It is a novel about a black man'scountry under white man's law. It is about all kinds of injustices thatman inflicts on his own brothers. Alan Paton, born inPeitermarit...Read more

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Reviewed By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept - Paulo Coelho

Coelho and another love story

“By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept” is another novel by Coelho that proves that love is not an obstacle to materializing one’s dreams, but a force urging the lovers to conquer their dreams and thus find God. Coelho has once again used his successful formula when writing this novel: poetic ...Read more

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Reviewed Mansfield Park - Jane Austen

Philosophical anxieties

Mansfield Park” is the most condensed and complex novel ever written by Jane Austen, and is her first novel that was conceived, written, and published at her mature years. Even though it lacks in the playful ironic humor which is so characteristic of Austen’s other novels, it is the novel tha...Read more

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Reviewed Dreamcatcher - Stephen King

Crap Dreamcatcher

Just finished "Dreamcatcher". It had its moments but it is mostly disappointing. And about 200 pages longer than it should be. Actually the plot is better suited to a comic book. Maybe that's why King's popularity is so great. He's really making comic books in long hand, without the drawings. ...Read more

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whats it got to do with us. OR may be just u wanna popularize or impress ur so called principal one advice frm me use somethin that we could co-relate us

Reviewed Discover Your Destiny with the Monk who Sold his Ferrari - Robin Sharma

Common sense(which is not so common).

Iconfess that I have somewhat mixed feelings about this book. I read iton holiday and began by expecting and hoping to read an insightfulstory. For the first few pages this seemed to be the case, however thebook then changed direction. Inmany ways the author of a book designed to help people ...Read more

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