Mindjack Magazine /books
...reviewed by Scott Butki buy this book at Amazon.com Carl Hiaasen is a weird, sick, hilarious guy and his new novel, Sick Puppy, is aptly titled. Michael Connelly, in contrast, is a promising writer who tries to write...
http://www.mindjack.com/books/puppy.html
Mindjack Magazine - books - Zeitgeist by Bruce Sterling
...- reviewed by Scott Butki I grimaced when I began this book but smiled as it engaged me increasingly. Grimaced because Y2k is so, well, Y2K. Why has Sterling, a modern sci-fi writer, decided to take us back to 1999? In...
http://www.mindjack.com/books/zeitgeist.html
Mindjack Magazine - books - The Hook by Donald Westlake
...- reviewed by Scott Butki Donald Westlake remains the master of mysteries. I never miss his books. And while his latest book, "The Hook," isn't one of his best, his inferior works are still superior to those of his colleagues....
http://www.mindjack.com/books/thehook.html
Mindjack Magazine - books - Grievance by K.C. Constantine
...- reviewed by Scott Butki Rocksburg, Pa. Detective Officer Rugs Carlucci has two problems one of which is much more difficult emotionally. The first fits into his traditional job - help determine who killed a local steel magnate....
http://www.mindjack.com/books/grievance.html
Mindjack Magazine - books - Geeks by Jon Katz
...- reviewed by Scott Butki Jon Katz has written a powerful, moving story with two unlikely heroes who call themselves geeks. But as Katz has explained in his writings for Slashdot.org, geek isn't the insult it sometimes seems. In...
http://www.mindjack.com/books/geeks.html
Mindjack Film - Kingdom of Heaven
...October 09, 2005 | For all its aspirations to be the next Lawrence of Arabia, I felt truly stirred by Ridley Scott's latest film only once. Balian (Orlando Bloom), a French blacksmith and illegitimate son of a crusading nobleman,...
http://www.mindjack.com/film/kingdom100905.html
Mindjack Film: October 2005
...2005 movie year. Our two big weekend contenders are both turkeys; Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown is a mess, and Tony Scott's Domino is only slightly less so. Even the art house fare is uninspiring. We get two ultra-serious medidations...
http://www.mindjack.com/film/archives/2005_10_01_...
Mindjack Magazine /books
...by Scott Turow reviewed by Scott Butki Scott Turow is no John Grisham. And that's a good thing. The two writers sometimes get lumped together because both had major bestsellers with thrillers about court and suddenly,...
http://www.mindjack.com/books/injuries.html
Mindjack Film: DVD Review: Kingdom of Heaven
...For all its aspirations to be the next Lawrence of Arabia, I felt truly stirred by Ridley Scott's latest film only once. Balian (Orlando Bloom), a French blacksmith and illegitimate son of a crusading nobleman, arrives in Jerusalem...
http://www.mindjack.com/film/2005/10/dvd-review-...
Mindjack Film: Revenge of the Comics
...from DC Comic land (Frank Miller notwithstanding). The inside joke is, of course, that Blade Runner (and Ridley Scott's earlier masterpiece, Alien) had its roots in the enormously influential and stylish French comic, "Metal-Hurlant"...
http://www.mindjack.com/film/2005/06/revenge-of-comics.html
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