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harry potter and the half-blood prince (book 6)

Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Read it. Loved it. But ohhhh the ending! So horrible! So horrible but so good. The endings of the past two books are killing me! It’s awesome, read it. Read the whole series if you haven’t already, you illiterate, degenerate bump on a log.

red square

Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:23:17 +0000

Just finished reading Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith, a few days ago. I haven’t read any of his other work, but if this is any indication it’s worth looking into. The book starts out almost a little slow, but quickly picks up speed and turns into a great international mystery thriller. I love stories about travelling and stories about intrigue as well, so this book had me turning the pages until 5am. Pick it up if you have a chance…

the da vinci code

Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:17:35 +0000

A couple weeks ago I finally got around to reading that famous modern bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown. While it was well written, a novel idea, and a great book, it had been hyped up a little too much, I think, because it didn’t seem as fantastic as everyone made it out to be. A couple of the puzzles took a little long to be revealed, once I’d figured them out, but my main critcism is the ending, which seemed rather anticlimatic. Still a very clever book, however, particularly in the puzzles and cryptography, and I’m looking forward to the movie adaptation.

the ultimate hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy

Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:15:26 +0000

Last month I read Douglas Adams’s entire Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, in the tome-like form of The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. The first book, the original Hitchhiker’s Guide, was very good – not as amazingly hilarious as it had been worked up to be, but good nonetheless. The second book, Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Galaxy?), is good too, but the series sort of goes downhill from there. The final book is particularly disappointing, with Douglas Adams’ galaxy falling apart into some sort of nonsensical mix-up of time and space and an extremelly unsatisfying conclusion for the main characters.

michael crichton’s timeline

Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

For my first Michael Crichton read, Timeline was alright. It’s summer vacation, so I blazed through the 500 pages in a day, which speaks well for its ability to keep my interest. But although the story had a good premise, great promise, and was a pleasant read it just didn’t pan out fully. It’s not that I came away from the book unhappy or terribly unsatisfied, just that there could have been so much more. Several of the characters introduced at the beginning are never touched upon again, the bad guy really doesn’t seem that bad and yet the good guys inexplicably and coldly murder him at the end in some sort of ironic justice, some of the science seems a little funky (if they’re travelling to alternate universes, why does it suddenly become like linear time travel and effect our universe?), and the ending is a bit predictable and a little dull. I don’t know, I liked the book well enough but it wasn’t anything special and I probably won’t ever revisit it.

suburbia

Miquel Rodríguez Telep / Michael Rodríguez-Torrent — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Just finished reading Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, a play in four acts about young (19 to 20) people in suburban America. Taking place entirely on a street corner in front of a neighborhood 7-Eleven, it describes their love, hate, bigotry, dreams, ambitions, desires, and more. It was a great read, very well written, and I imagine it can be an excellent piece of theatre in production. I was turned on to it by a friend of mine who will be performing in a production of it here in Phoenix. He asked me to come audition, as they’re still looking for males, and dropped the book into my hand after rehearsal yesterday, so I may get to act in it, which would be terrific.