Yet another suvey
Came across this one on The Wasteland: A – Act your age – Can I ignore this one, 25 and just moved home again :( B – Breast size – huh,...
31 July 2004
Untranslatable words
Open Democracy have an interesting few articles on language, and how many seem to have words that simply cannot be translated into other languages. It is actually surprising to think how...
23 July 2004
Robin of Sherwood dir. by Richard Carpenter
I don’t know if I actually remember this from when it was originally shown on RTE, or if it was repeats. Then again, the last series, the third, was made in...
22 July 2004
Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
ISBN: 0552149411By my count this is the 28th Discworld novel, although if you include the “Younger Readers’” discworld books then you get 30. So take your pick, I don’t think it...
20 July 2004
Capturing the Friedmans dir. by Andrew Jareki
Starring the family as themselves. This is a documentary about a family, maybe a little on the eccentric side, but seeming quite normal nontheless and what happens when the father is...
15 July 2004
Belleville Rendezvous dir. by Slyvain Chomet
This is film that got quite a lot of attention when it came out, but I will admit to being a little put of by the trailer, and as it didn’t...
15 July 2004
Amelie dir. by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Another film that I kept meaning to rent but never got round to it, till C4 showed it tonight. I really don’t know how to describe this film. It is quirky...
15 July 2004
Death of an Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan
ISBN: 0743252276 Nathan is dead. Only problem is that he doesn’t really know what’s going on. He is stuck with his family, trying to fill in the holes in his memories,...
14 July 2004
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
Book 8 in the Sword of Truth series Sometimes you know, people really make me wonder. The Sword of Truth series of books started off fine. Fairly regular “epic fantasy” with...
11 July 2004
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay
ISBN: 0061056219 Loved this book. Pretty much devoured it in one day, and it isn’;t the shortest of books. The version I read was published by EOS and is categorised as...
7 July 2004
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