Random firings of my synapses. Also, photos.
Lauren and I went to the movies over the holidays with her brothers, and since Lauren’s brothers love football, a movie about football seemed the logical choice. I’m not much of a football man myself. I like the sport; I just don’t like it enough to make time for it. At any rate, I was…
Again, another movie based on a book I haven’t read. Lauren, on the other hand, did read Memoirs of a Geisha (pronounced gay-shu, not ghee-shu or guy-shu as I have pronounced it before) and enjoyed it very much. Now that I’ve seen the movie, I don’t think I’d find the book as satisfying as she…
I haven’t read the novel by Lauren Weisberger upon which the film is based, but I think I’ll give it a go if ever I get my hands on it. It’s a fun story, and, if I’m not mistaken, is based loosely on Weisberger’s own experience as an assistant to the chief editor at Vogue…
The second novel in the Odd Thomas series zips along at a breakneck pace. If you haven’t read the first novel, aptly named Odd Thomas, you may find it hard to keep up. Koontz doesn’t spend a lot of time recapping the events of the first novel or reintroducing us to Odd, his companions, or…
I’ve been a fan of Orson Scott Card ever since I picked up a copy of Ender’s Game in middle school. Like everyone else who has read it, I dreamed of being summoned up to Battle School and shooting and soaring my way to the top of the Battle Room scoreboard. I would be a…
No one would argue that M. Night Shyamalan, the director of The Sixth Sense, stole the idea for his film from the Dean Koontz’s novel Odd Thomas. The film came years before the novel. If anyone unconsciously copied it was Koontz, right? Well, knowing Shyamalan’s penchant for copying, I’d side with Koontz. Shyamalan must have…
