Recent content by Everett

Rand has one valuable observation that is worked and reworked throughout her pedantic, polemical tombs: Change and variation should be embraced; creativity and individualism represent the best interest of the many.

The main characters are poorly developed - its hard to identify with them. The violence is gratuitous. The bad ending is thrown in to create artful realism. Kidman seems to do her best film work where seduction and fornication are involved. The "evil" characters that terrorized the town...

Of Human Bondage David Copperfield The Razor's Edge All the Pretty Horses Deliverance The Catcher in the Rye Great Expectations Shogun

Oh goodness, what wonderfully patronizing, fashionably cryptic expressions of ennui. Without dear Bobby, whose perishing with his privates all aflame (a modest blaze no doubt), who will be there to chastize the banal with terse and insolent mockery.

Doubting the Dunce Although I recognize that I am bucking the mainstream, I have to admit that I do not understand the elements of this book that create so many favorable responses. What is the author trying to tell us; that fat, eccentric, neurotic personality-disordered individuals are...