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August 11, 2011

‘The House of Flying Daggers’

Ah, this one movie is one of my certain favourites — not only does it portray a most excellent change in life itself, but…

August 10, 2011

‘A Song for Lya’, George R.R. Martin

I don’t really know whether ‘A Song for Lya’ is considered sci-fi or fantasy (knowing Martin, likely fantasy) but the border between the two…

August 7, 2011

‘The Silmarillion’, J.R.R. Tolkien

I mentioned a while ago on my other blog (the one dealing not with arts and literature but everything else) that I’ve been thinking…

August 3, 2011

‘The Emperor and The Assassin’

So I took up this film with the hopes that it would be a good one and very entertaining. Needless to say, the reviews…

July 28, 2011

‘A Dance with Dragons’, George R.R. Martin, Retake

Hmmh, the next day after posting the previous on the ADwD I remembered that I completely ignored a few characters who were in it,…

July 23, 2011

‘A Dance with Dragons’, George R.R. Martin

Ah, now, I believe I’ve come to the point where the fifth A Song of Ice and Fire book is discussed here. I finished…

July 17, 2011

‘A Voice in the Dark’

This song, being one of the few that Blind Guardian has bothered to turn into a video, seemed fitting to sum up some of…

July 14, 2011

‘Naval Warfare’, J. Thursfield

I thought of writing about dreams, about illusions, of people, possibly about anger/disappointment. Those are, briefly, what I’ve thought about in the last few…

July 11, 2011

Collapse of a Society

Not a book per se, but wished to bring up two interesting titles that my today’s browsing brought up. Both relate to how societies…

July 8, 2011

‘The Secrets of the Self’, M. Iqbal

I managed to get through ‘The Secrets of the Self’, author sir Muhammad Iqbal (sometimes seemingly published in English as ‘Asrar-e-Khudi’ apparently, which should…

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