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Carl Hiaasen, Basket Case<\/em> (Abridged, and read by the author) – Listened to this on the drive down. *Hilarious*. I’d heard of Hiaasen years ago and never read any of his books. He’s a columnist for the Miami Herald and his books are set in South Florida.<\/p>\n

This one attracted me because the protagonist writes obituaries. The newspaper politics in the book were hilarious.<\/p>\n

Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> (movie) – I enjoyed it. Zaphod is even more annoying on screen, however. I last reread the book so long ago that I don’t remember it well enough to complain about the differences. The only one that bothered me was that Marvin looked totally wrong from how I imagined him.<\/p>\n

Kill Bill, vol. 1<\/em> – All I’d ever heard about it was that it had awesome fight scenes. I’m not a fan of fight scenes, so I didn’t bother to see it. My boyfriend taped it and made me watch it, and I was hooked pretty quickly. What it is, despite huge plot holes, is an awsome *story*, very well told. I thought the out-of-order sequence of “chapters” was a good way of making the story more interesting.<\/p>\n

Must have sucked to see it in the theater, because it doesn’t have an ending. When it was over we went straight to Blockbuster and rented…<\/p>\n

Kill Bill, vol. 2<\/em> – Which was also good, but I think having less of a mystery made it less interesting. Also, I was really pissed off at the resolution because
\nI’m supposed to believe that killer assassins who say “fuck” when the over-the-counter pregnancy test turns up positive will suddenly turn all “Oh no I can’t be an assassin any more because it’d be bad for my baaaayyyyybeeeeeee that I didn’t want anyway and could just abort or send out for adoption.” Well, fuck that. I rinse my brain of the last part of that movie. It never happened.<\/p>\n

Grr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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