Monthly Archive: February 2005

Feb 10

BestSeller… the final verdict

Okay… okay… I’m *not* going to get upset about this. I’ve already had a sort of whinge on Jade Pagoda and to be honest, when I read back my posts, I realised what an emotional fool I’d been. Anyway, BestSeller – written by myself and Danny – was described as a “dismal start to the …

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Feb 08

The Iron Council

I’m still plodding through the Iron Council. I’m on page 428 – about 140 pages to go. I have to say that this book is a real dissapointement. I loved Perdido and I adored the Scar (I haven’t read King Rat), but I haven’t found IC as engaging. There are moment of brillinace, bits of …

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Feb 07

Ray

Another day, another bio-pic. I saw Ray yesterday and found it to be a good, but uneven film. There are some beautiful moments in the movie and the music just rocks and Jamie Foxx’s performance is AMAZING. But for a movie that goes for over 2 and a half hours, it seemed to lack substance. …

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Feb 03

Hectic…

Everything’s been so hectic the last couple of weeks: Women, Sex, Women, Drugs, Giving Birth, Sex, Women. And, of course, being the Acting Chair or a Science Fiction covention. The convention is, of course, Continuum 3: http://www.continuum.org.au The Chair, Kirstyn, has gone away to sunny Europe leaving me to mind the children. And what a …

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