10 December 2004 – 12:04 am
On the advice of a friend (Pukka), a while back I began to read Wil Wheaton's blog. Though I'd seen Stand By Me and Toy Soldiers, my firmest memories of Mr. Wheaton were of Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. That was one of the few sci-fi shows that my parents [...]
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I just finished reading Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine's Last Chance to See. Wow. It was great! I've been a fan of Douglas Adams since I was knee-high to a grasshopper (mostly for his Hitcher's Guide to the Galaxy) but I'd never read any non-fiction by him before. It was wonderful [...]
By Mark
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Posted in DVDs
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I finished reading Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor last night and contrary to my early thoughts on the book; I did end up sort of liking the book. It's not what I would call a good read at all, but rather the story seems to suddenly get interesting once you're about halfway through.
Kind of like you're [...]
Yesterday, a fiend friend tossed Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor at me and said it was a book that I had to read. Since Masterpieces is a collection of short stories; I figured I'd humor him and read the book.
So far I'm only about 3-4 chapters in and I'm already wishing I'd told him to piss [...]
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