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7 Word Reviews: 13 Assassins

snipejaeg — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:38:42 +0000

HHoly shit those cows were on fire! Etc.

7 Word Reviews: Haywire

snipejaeg — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:16:56 +0000

Bourne Identity plus Ocean’s Eleven minus flair.

7 Word Reviews: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

snipejaeg — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:39:08 +0000

Ann’s a bitch, Peter is the best.

7 Word Reviews: Bunraku

snipejaeg — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:04:22 +0000

Stylistic. Weird. Awesome. Crazy. Josh Hartnett mustache.

7 Word Reviews: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

snipejaeg — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:16:55 +0000

Time to go buy ALL the Macs!

In which I wax nostalgic after reading John Scalzi’s Fuzzy Nation

snipejaeg — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:41:22 +0000

I don’t remember exactly when it was I fell in love with science fiction. Maybe it was the Commander Toad series that I vaguely remember reading when I was a little tyke. Maybe it was Bruce Coville – the first sci-fi author I remember loving (My Teacher Is An Alien and Alien Adventures are both series that still speak powerfully to me). At some point I saw Star Wars, and then Star Wars novels, and then Timothy Zahn. I’m not 100% certain, but I’m pretty sure Zahn was the first author I regularly sought out in the Adult Fiction section of the library. I read his Conquerors’ Saga a half-dozen times before high school, and to this day it’s one of my favorite series (and I keep hoping HBO or AMC will decide to make a TV adaption of it). It’s scientific without being HARD SCIENCE-FICTION, it’s fun without being silly, there’s political drama that doesn’t talk down to the reader, the heroes are awesome without being flawless – it’s what made me fall in love with sci-fi.

Fuzzy Nation made me feel very much the same way the Conquerors’ Saga does.

Of course, if you made me choose one or the other, Conquerors’ will always win. The newcomer doesn’t take down the childhood hero; that would just be wrong. But in a world where you can have both, you should read both.

7 Word Reviews: Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol

snipejaeg — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:37:03 +0000

I really thought Josh Holloway wasn’t dead.

7 Word Reviews: Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

snipejaeg — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:10:50 +0000

Very fun – Die Hard in “1891″ Europe.

Nobody ever

snipejaeg — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:44:54 +0000

Nobody ever beat me up for being straight.

Nobody ever said that my marriage would be an assault on family values.

Nobody ever judged me for not wearing makeup or having unshaved legs.

Nobody ever questioned my patriotism because of my religion.

Nobody ever said I shouldn’t be allowed to vote or go to a good school because my skin was the wrong color.

Nobody ever said I had a moral and religious duty to get married, quit my job, make babies, and stay at home – that my wanting to have a job and children both was immoral.

Nobody ever tried to burn my holy book because of what they believed about it.

Nobody ever called me a cunt or a bitch or threatened to rape me because I expressed my opinion on the Internet.

Nobody ever said it would be un-American to let me build a community center.

Nobody ever pressured me to wear high heels (or any other sort of uncomfortable shoe).

Nobody ever told me that God hated me because of who I was attracted to.

Nobody ever fact-checks conservative spokespeople who claim to be persecuted by society.

But maybe they should.

7 Word Reviews: Moneyball

snipejaeg — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:50:12 +0000

Laid-back, charming Aaron Sorkin baseball movie.