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Okay, I didn't mean armory as in all the weapons. Just all the ammo. Oh, and SHOTGUN!!
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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Oh, if anyone would like to check out my photo album of my trip to D.C., you can find it here.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
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cool pix!
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Wow, I didn't know you had your own site. Cool Stuff Bossk.
The original Star Wars trilogy: Our cultural history deserves to be preserved and should be available to the public like all great works of art!
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yup... www dot kapgar dot com
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Yep I do, Sweyland. Thanks for the comments guys. I like to post crap like that sometimes and it's been a while since I've posted a new photo album. I've actually got a guy from my accounting course who has been frequenting my movie review site with a buddy of his from where he works. He loves just sitting there and reading my reviews.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Ditto for me! You have a pretty comprehensive set of reviews of there, but I can see where you got some gaps. If you don't mind, perhaps I'll send you some reviews on foreign films and such...
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bossk doesnt like foreign films... he only like american, sorry USian 300+ million dollars blockbuster...
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Okay Motti, who the hell are you talking about? I'm not Jimbo. Remember?

Sweyland, I love foreign films and have a ton in my Netflix queue waiting to be sent out. Our local video stores have a sorry collection. And I'm not going to buy them without watching them first. So, please send me reviews. I'll post them.
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Cool. Will do...
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It would be cool to have a second regular poster on the site. You saw the submission rules on the Movie Critique homepage, right? When you send me an e-mail (since I don't think I've received one from you yet), make sure you put Sweyland or something like that in the subject line so I know it's you and I don't delete it as junk mail. After the first message, I'll get you in my address book so your messages go straight to my inbox and not my junkmail folder. Cool.
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it WAS a sarcastic remark... but i guess that joke kinda fell to the floor now.. hehe.
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I knew it was a joke, but I figured I'd intentionally let it fall flat. Let out the steam. Good stuff like that.
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okiday... gotcha.
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Sweyland, got two of your reviews up on my site. The other two will be forthcoming very shortly.
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Cool! Thanks Bossk.
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checked out ur site bossk, it's really cool.

I like the review of the Michael Crichton books, I've read all those on your site and also Jurassic Park, Lost World, Sphere, Airframe and Congo.
Prey is one of my least favourites, I guess it's because I got too much used to his style. I read almost all of his books so could predict some things that happened in the book. i didn't really like Rising Sun either. Felt too much anti-japanese, and now it seems outdated since now Japan isn't as powerful as it was when the book was written.
What I like about MC is that his books all explore different domain. So he's not like John Grisham who only writes about the legal world for example.
My favourite book by him is Lost World. Was the first one I read and it completely blew me away. But that's also mybe because i've always been interestes in biology and evolution theories. You should definitely check that one out. It's totally different from the movie (they changed a lot of things)

I also write movie reviews sometimes but they're not good ones. I just write down what I write about them as I go. If anyone is interested you can read some in my
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(i've also included a link to this website in it )
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out that he'd melt my brain."
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wanted to edit my post but didn't work. got a message that said that i'm not allowed to post in this thread.

basically i wanted to correct some typos and the sentence "I just write down what I write about them as I go." should read "I just write down what I think about them as I go."
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fav MC book is Airframe and Jurassic Park
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they're really good too.
actually I think I prefer the lost world more because I own it. I don't have Jurassic Park, rented it from a library years ago, so don't really remember it.
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i owned most of MC's books... dont know what happened to them though. just looked through my library and i cant seem to find them.
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I've actually read almost all of MC's books. However, many of them were read before I started my website so I need to go back and reread them. Among those are JP, LW, Sphere, and A Case of Need (his first book from his med school days). I had also read Rising Sun back then, but reread it recently. It didn't blow me away as much as it did the first time, I agree. But I try to put these books in the context of when they were written. That makes it easier to deal with any issues that are out of date. It's almost a necessity when you're reading James Patterson as he makes so many pop culture references in his books that they get dated rather quickly. Try reading some of Patterson's pre nursery rhyme titles. You'll see what I mean. Very dated.

I think the fact that I've spread out my reading of MC has made it easier for me to not get sick of his style. Prey was my "return to Crichton" novel of late. After reading that one, I read a bunch more. So I wasn't ruined on his style. It had been nearly six years before that point since I had read an MC book. Considering the lapse, Prey floored me. I loved it. I could see some of it coming, yeah. But I love MC's writing. He has such a way of making nearly impossible to grasp science and business terminology easy to understand for the common person. Reading JP back in high school is what got me interested in genetics and I wound up taking a HS course on it. Aced it.

Great Train Robbery remains my fave, though. I love Victorian era England and I feel that Crichton did a good job of capturing it in that novel. Waiting to see if Patricia Cornwell's "Portrait of a Killer" can capture it that well as she hypothesizes about the identity of Jack the Ripper. On my reading list, just have to get to it.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Anyone read Prey yet? Great book; kept me up 'til 1:30 reading.

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Stupid forum won't let me edit my post. What I meant to say was, Anyone else read Prey yet (besides myself and Bossk.)?

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You have to be logged in to the forum to be able to edit. Not just logged on a per-post basis.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia'."
--Vizzini (Wallace Shawn), The Princess Bride
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Kevin A
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