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Director: Jon Favreau Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama/Sci-fi/Thriller Year: 2008 The way I see this, its like what Transformers was supposed to be. A better Transformers, yes. You got the big, bad ass robots, you got the excitement and the explosions and all the good stuff people go see in action movies and then you add to it [...]
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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Category: Fiction A classic and one that I had placed in my list for a long while now and just never dared to buy. I did not realize just how bad it must look for me to go and read Lolita after reading Oryx and Crake, which as I mentioned dealt with [...]
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Author: Margaret Atwood Category: Fiction In what is probably described as a Sci-fi/post apocalyptic novel, Atwood gives us a frighteningly realistic bleak vision of the future, in which we follow the last of the humans, a bearded, naked man who clothes himself with a sheet, and who goes by the name of Snowman. As we [...]
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Author: Miguel García Márquez Category: Fiction – Magical Realism/Drama Not the first time I read the book, to be honest. My dad had actually recommended it to me back in High School and I had indeed picked it up and read it cover to cover, mostly during one long swim meet weekend, between heats. However, [...]