Helpful votes received on reviews:
86% (44 of 51)
Location: Ama, Louisiana United States
In My Own Words:
My first novel, 'Other People's Heroes' and short story collection 'A Long November' are now available at the Amazon Kindle Store. I'm also the author of the play 'The 3-D Radio Show,' which we produced in Thibodaux, LA., in January-February 2004. I'm an English teacher in Southern Louisiana.
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I find it hard to believe that the person who claims this book doesn't offer "a shred of evidence" against Michael Moore has actually READ it. The book is almost nothing BUT a page-by-page refutation of the outrageous lies, misdirections and twisting of the facts that Moore spews in all of his books and faux documentaries. As someone who's gotten sick and tired of this man being treated as though he were a legitimate force for social change instead of a two-bit huckster who found a bullhorn loud enough to get attention, this book was refreshing, entertaining and informative. Not to say it's perfect. The writers do a great job of dissecting Moore's arguments and showing exactly… Read more
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Being a huge fan of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," I was quite interested in this book-length discussion of movies by Kevin Murphy. I was surprised to find that the book is actually several different books in one. The basic concept is that Murphy spent an entire year going to the movies every single day. The book that resulted from this experiment was sometimes a movie review (such as where he called "Dude, Where's My Car?" an "infected lump of pig offal"), sometimes a travelogue (such as the chapter where he visits the smallest movie theater in the world) and sometimes just a love letter to the art of film. For all the years Murphy has spent tearing apart… Read more
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
As the Dark Tower series gets nearer and nearer its conclusion, my excitement continues to grow. In this penultimate installment, Susannah Dean has been taken away to our world to have her baby, the "Chap" really mothered by another soul in her own body, Mia. Her husband and friends, her Ka-Tet, prepare to pierce the doorway between Mid-World and our world to rescue her, but the rescue, of course, does not go as planned. In an odd way, I love this book for the same reason I love the film "Big Fish." Both of them, when you get down to it, are stories about STORY itself. In BF, it was the importance of Story. "The Dark Tower" is about the POWER of Story, and… Read more
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