CJC.org » Reviews http://www.cjc.org/blog Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Into the Wild http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/17/into-the-wild/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/17/into-the-wild/#comments Wed, 17 Aug 2005 22:50:48 +0000 Cheng http://www.cjc.org/blog/?p=129012 We picked up Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild after seeing it in one of the Alaska bookstores, in the large “local interest” section. I had actually heard of the ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/17/into-the-wild/feed/ 1 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/09/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/09/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:02:15 +0000 Cheng http://www.cjc.org/blog/?p=129007 I read it a couple of weeks ago, shortly after finishing The Dark Tower. It was an interesting contrast, if only because both Potter and The Dark Tower are ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/09/harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince/feed/ 2 Stephen King’s Dark Tower http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/04/stephen-kings-dark-tower/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/04/stephen-kings-dark-tower/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:03:56 +0000 Cheng http://www.cjc.org/blog/?p=129005 Unlike most Stephen King fans, my road to the Dark Tower only began a couple of months ago, when I packed The Gunslinger and The Drawing of the Three into ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/08/04/stephen-kings-dark-tower/feed/ 3 Carnage and Culture http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/02/08/carnage-and-culture/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/02/08/carnage-and-culture/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:07:52 +0000 Cheng /?p=128927 I read Victor David Hanson’s Carnage and Culture last year, coincidentally soon after reading Creasy’s Victorian-era survey book Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World The earlier book consisted of relatively brief ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/02/08/carnage-and-culture/feed/ 1 The Producers http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/01/27/the-producers/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/01/27/the-producers/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:01:24 +0000 Cheng /?p=128935 Last weekend, Grace and I did what we couldn’t quite do in New York: catch The Producers, the Broadway musical. Albeit at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, albeit the travelling ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/01/27/the-producers/feed/ 0 The DaVinci Code http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/09/27/ithe-davinci-codei/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/09/27/ithe-davinci-codei/#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:15:08 +0000 Cheng /?p=128906 A couple of weeks ago, I was stuck in the queue at Sam’s Club waiting for new tires for the Honda. The mechanic told me it’d take a couple ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/09/27/ithe-davinci-codei/feed/ 0 Nine Innings From Ground Zero http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/09/17/nine-innings-from-ground-zero/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/09/17/nine-innings-from-ground-zero/#comments Sat, 18 Sep 2004 03:43:35 +0000 Cheng /?p=128903 Nine Innings From Ground Zero is HBO’s new documentary on baseball in the weeks following 9/11, where this game fulfilled some of its brilliant promise — “they’ll watch the game ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/09/17/nine-innings-from-ground-zero/feed/ 0 Castles of Steel http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/08/12/castles-of-steel/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/08/12/castles-of-steel/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:26:11 +0000 Cheng /?p=128892 A couple of weeks ago, I finished Castles of Steel, Robert Massie’s history of the Great War at sea, and a follow-up to his earlier Dreadnought, which chronicled the naval arms ...

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/08/12/castles-of-steel/feed/ 0 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/04/05/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2004/04/05/eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2004 20:57:42 +0000 Cheng /?p=128866 This was a wonderful movie, in ways a Philip K. Dick story with heart and hope and mercy, and I can’t tell you how much I liked it. The ...

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