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Good games are rare things all on their own. For example, of the hundreds of titles available for the XBox 360, I own maybe twenty or so and have played less than a hundred (Gamefly rules!).
So when a truly great game comes along, it's definitely memorable. The thing is that ...
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Author: Raymond Chandler Pages: 234 Year Published: 1939
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler's first novel, introduces us to one of the most famous detectives in fiction, Phillip Marlowe. Marlow is hired to find out who is trying to blackmail the daughter of his rich client and in the ...
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Author: Naomi Novik Pages: 384 Year Published: 2006
While the premise of His Majesty's Dragon is rather simple: what if dragons were used as an "air force," during the Napoleonic Wars, Naomi's Novik's execution of the concept is wonderfully entertaining.
The story begins with the capture of a dragon ...
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Author: Ian Flemming Pages: 272 Year Published: 1957
In From Russia With Love, his fifth outing, British Secret Service agent James Bond finds himself the target of a Soviet assassination plot, all the while attempting to courier one of the prized "Spektor" cryptographic machines out of Turkey ...
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I saw this over the weekend and was simply blown away. Iron Man is the best movie adaptation of a comic book character since Batman Begins and one of the best, period.
The story of industrialist Tony Stark (played to the hilt by Robert Downey Jr.) as he invents the "Iron ...
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