Dave Eggers is my new hero. I enjoy his writing more than a lot of other things, lately, more than any Dan Brown, for sample. I'm going to speak my mind about Inferno, last Brown's ultra best selling novel, in a future post on this category. Here, I'm gonna praise Mr. Eggers, for his recent The Circle. I have started his 2012 published novel, A Hologram for the King, which determined me to post immediately. Actually I have finished it in the same day, so I have only one word to say about, it: … [Read more...]
The Sopranos, a Great Show
This is a post in the memory of James Gandolfini. There are not many TV shows I have really enjoyed, mostly because they are too boring. I don't watch them a lot also because I don't watch too much television in general, and lately, not at all. I have presented here, on this blog, series I have enjoyed in the past, like Rome, or Battlestar Galactica. [source] The series was aired by HBO for six seasons, from 1999 to 2007, with some pause in 2003 and 2005, season 6 having two parts,one … [Read more...]
56 Movies or, The Year 2008 in Cinema
It seems year 2008 is my favorite year regarding movie production, in the new millennium so far. It is the year of The Dark Knight (8.9) and Slumdog Millionaire (8.2). It is the year of Twilight, the iconic start of a successful saga in a genre I thought was "made up" for a special category of kids, the "Young Adult" genre. Anyway, that was the time when I have heard for the first time of them. I know, Sarah Michelle Gellar already made Buffy the Vampire Slayer famous on American Television … [Read more...]