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Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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Anything to avoid Lowry...
In any event, I quite like Marquez, and this collection of short stories - vignettes - did not disappoint.
A Sicilian Romance - Ann Radcliffe
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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...and Malcolm Lowry sits half-read on a shelf. I appreciate him, but, for the moment, not to my taste.
SO - Ann Radcliffe - I'm pretty sure I've read "The Castle of Udolpho", this didn't disappoint.
A Gothic Romance, with the usual variety of Star-crossed lovers, Ruined Castles, Estates, Monasteries, Convents and Dungeons (albeit poorly used...), caves, the rumor of ghosts, kindly governesses, evil fathers and stepmothers, Bandetti, convenient coincidences, mistaken identities, and the wrath of God plays out in the passions of the players.
If she didn't invent the genre she certainly perfected it, the quality of prose is fine, only the events - the story, is just that, a diversion to entertain, and at no point does the reader believe it. But that's a matter of taste...
Read up on her here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Radcliffe
All of Us Strangers
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Film
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A British film about a lonely London Screenwriter who goes to visit his childhood home and meets his deceased parents...
And a mysterious stranger.
A curious and contemporary take on the themes of ghosts, loss, loneliness and grief.
Good.
Facebook: Peak Degeneracy
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: WTF
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And so I'm spending too much time scrolling on Facebook and I don't think I've ever let it get this bad.
It always starts the same. The first few scrolls, maybe new, fresh, then the neighborhood goes to hell.
It starts with the cartoons - K'Nif, Hoki-Poki, etc.
Yep. That's Veronica. Hasn't aged a bit.
And this. From Zena's Doggy Tales and Advice for Anything Pets.
I can't even summon up very droll.
Then it surprises me with this:
Which is kind of brilliant, I mean, you have the African Missionary helping the two-headed American Colony in Idaho...
I don't know if this image is real. Maybe it is. But somehow having an account that seeks to monetize this ... well,...
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