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Tristram Shandy begins to tell his story literally ad ovo... his unfortunate life begins its down turn at the very moment of conception when his mother turns away his father's attention by remembering the clock. Lawrence Sterne accomplishes one of the most humorous and yet innovative and unbelievably complex novels in history. While the reader waits for Tristram to come to the world, the characters are introduced through the most delicious and sophisticated game with ideas, opinions and ambiguous expresions, which connect, for example, uncle Toby's hobby horses with sexual behavours and problems of miscomunication. Misunderstandings reveal the unaccurate nature of language in a time when… Read more
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I remember watching this series during this first season, but I had forgotten how addictive it grew in my schedule to watch it. It is a wonderfully crafted mixture of sci-fi and teen drama, softly flavored with edgy, intelligent dialogues. Liz Parker is a teenager who gets shot in the restaurant owned by her parents, and is then saved by another teenager, who lays hands on her. Max Evans is then forced to tell her his secret: he, his sister and his friend Michael, are, indeed, aliens. From that point the three aliens begin the path of connecting emotionally with humans (who they have avoid their whole life, and include Liz's friends: Maria and Alex) as they have to face the dangers around… Read more
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Okay, Fox has managed to make me give five stars to the only season of The X-Files that I was ready to qualify under five stars (I was going to give it four stars). Mulder has left the series after the two parter finale of the eighth season, and we don't quite understand why. The season begins with "Nothing Important happened today" I and II, where we see Doggett trying to pursue his investigation on the odd events that unfolded in Existence: the meeting implicating Kersh with the human replacement/super soldier Knowle Rohrer and agent Crane. But he finds out that he's been left alone by his former partner (agent Scully, now on full mommy duty) and Skinner. Monica Reyes is his only help… Read more
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