"Sea of Poppies" by Amitav Ghosh was an engaging bit of historic fiction set in the 19th century on a slave ship (well indentured servants) during the time when opium was bolstering British commerce. It is clearly a setup for more books, building the backstory for a group of travelers from very different walks of life. The mixture (and history) of English and Indian language was fun (in this way it reminded me of Vikram Chandra's work). A quick read.
"Shantaram" was I book I read a while back and just realized I never reviewed it. Apparently true story of a man who falls out of favor with the law (guns and drugs) and ending up (at various times) in solitary confinement, escaping to India, living in the slums, learning to love the city, falling into disfavor with local thugs, befriending hookers and thieves, treating and dolling out medicine to the poorest of the poor, extradition to prison, repeat, finally getting out, and then writing a book about it. Not the greatest writer (kinda wacky in some ways) but a really solid tale.
"Ender in Exile" by Orson Scott Card is a bit of backfill in the Ender saga. Basically "the lost years" right after "Ender's Game." If you like OSC you'll like this one. If you've never read his stuff, read "Game" first. I originally found OSC by reading a short story in "Omni Magazine" called "Unaccompanied Sonata." If you can find it read it. The story haunted me for years. When he's on as a writer he really can nail it. I don't think he's working too hard with "Exile" but its a fun universe of way too smart kids, clever strategies and the occasional alien mystery.
"The Golden Compass" trilogy was OK. Not sure what all the fuss was about but it held my interest for a few days. Basically alternate worlds that are slowly falling apart because of all the holes between them coupled with some kids that are the main characters/heroes trying to grow up. Good book for teens (though some have been dismayed by the portrayal of organized religion I don't think its all that bad).
"The Epicure's Lament" is the story of a dying (antihero) scion from a washed up family on the eastern seaboard. As he slowly smokes and drinks himself to death he dabbles in screwing up other family members lives. In between these machinations he cooks, ruminates about cooking, and generally laments his life (or society's existence). Fun book.
"The Ghost in Love" by Jonathan Carroll is a quirky fantasy ghost story with bizarre and thoughtful twists and turns. Man dies, ghost falls in love with his girlfriend, man somehow isn't really dead, entire life death system on the fritz, etc. I haven't loved all of his books but this one is pretty good (not mind blowing or anything, but pretty good).
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick is a beautifully constructed art object in itself. Part picture book, part novel, words and images intermingle. I think my sister met the author and is always on the lookout for books for her classroom full of kids. She forced me to buy it one day. Ostensibly a book for children (intimidating at first glance but satisfying to the little whipper snappers because it really is a fast read). It is the story of the first magician film maker, a boy who fixes things, invention, love and lost history. Perfect gift.
Other?
Australia (the movie) was worth seeing for parts of the story, bits of the breathtaking countryside, and elements of the film making methodology, but really not anywhere close to Romeo & Juliet or Moulin Rouge. A diversion.
808s & Heartbreak is Kanye's newest album. Proof that an old Roland 808 synthesizer, a bit of heartbreak and serious use of an autotuner to help make Kanye sound like Cher is really all you need to make a good album. And it is good. Especially his mutation of Tears for Fears' "Memories Fade" song, recast as "Coldest Winter." Makes me want an autotuner and musical ability.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Save wisely
Save the crying, the teary eyes, the hitch in your throat, the hopeless eyes casting about for a place to rest anywhere but on his face, in his eyes; save it up and buy a night's sleep finally knowing it's over, buy a chance to see tomorrow, not as a cold repast, but as something he would see. Something better than right now.
Save the earnest words, the comforting cliches, the useless crap veneer we all strap onto our souls every day to battle the world, save it all up for the day your family leaves, the day your friends find your jugular, the day some kid laughs at your tottering, twitching, barely coherent, oh so "un", remains of dignity.
Save it for the cold steel robot beneath your all too human, all too pat and small and predictable, feelings. Save it for the one behind the eyes that saw these words. Or, put it all in a bank, a vault of "No's", a little pink piggy bank of shame and dread.
Because they will find out that it was you. They will charge you dearly for your discretion, your humanity, your pity. They see through your charade.
Save wisely... my... friend.
Save the earnest words, the comforting cliches, the useless crap veneer we all strap onto our souls every day to battle the world, save it all up for the day your family leaves, the day your friends find your jugular, the day some kid laughs at your tottering, twitching, barely coherent, oh so "un", remains of dignity.
Save it for the cold steel robot beneath your all too human, all too pat and small and predictable, feelings. Save it for the one behind the eyes that saw these words. Or, put it all in a bank, a vault of "No's", a little pink piggy bank of shame and dread.
Because they will find out that it was you. They will charge you dearly for your discretion, your humanity, your pity. They see through your charade.
Save wisely... my... friend.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
A few more books...
"Anathem" by Neal Stephenson is ok if you like math-geek monks living out the rises and falls of civilization "long-now"-wise with the chance that those mathics have maybe learned new technologies that involve the many worlds interpretation of the universe, and then top it off with the intrusion of visitors from one of the other world-strands who are probably not visitors but invaders. I can't quite tell what he was thinking in writing this book. After the wonderful dive into historic fiction of his last few I wanted more of the same. Still fun to read if you like that sorta stuff.
"The Little Book" by Seldon Edwards is a time travel love story set at the turn of the last century in Vienna. It is the first (and probably only book) by the author (he spent his life writing it). It reads like it took someone maybe a bit too long to write it (overwrought?) That being said it was a fun exploration of time travel (of course with a young Hitler), Freud, and a time and place many of us don't know much about. I enjoyed it.
"The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga just won the Man Booker Prize (I thought Salman's book should have won it by the way because even though it wasn't his best it was richer than this one). All that being parenthetically said, I enjoyed the read. It is another first time writer (though an accomplished reporter). It is a mildly comic "murderer coming of age in a pretty screwed up have and have not world" sort of story (oh yes another one of those). Very compact exploration of Indian Society and the mind of an antihero.
"Slam" by Nick Hornby is yet another coming of age tale (About a Boy and High Fidelity where coming of age stories in different vein). Set in working class London with a teen who idolizes Tony Hawk (and maybe talks to him). The main character gets slammed pretty hard by life, maybe travels occasionally through time (hmm is time travel the new black?), and ultimately makes it through to the other side, older than his years. Small, good, and quick read.
Other things...
Films?
"Sunshine" by Danny Boyle (of Trainspotting & Millions & 28 Days Later fame) is a bit bloody but blindingly buildingly brilliant exploration of science fiction themes (like the sun is going out, we're all trapped on an ark and there is a murderer loose, space travel is long stretches of boredom complimented by moments of terror, and ecologies are fragile things). Anything Danny makes I will watch and this is no exception. He has a new one out called "Slumdog Millionaires" that promises to be good as well.
"Synecdoche, NY" is confusing, difficult, looping, lingering, halting, sprawling, small, dark, and somehow ultimately worth seeing again (I think people will love or hate it or a little of both and if you love it you'll end up wanting to see it again 24 hours after seeing it for the first time).
Music?
Department of Eagles and Beirut. Good.
"The Little Book" by Seldon Edwards is a time travel love story set at the turn of the last century in Vienna. It is the first (and probably only book) by the author (he spent his life writing it). It reads like it took someone maybe a bit too long to write it (overwrought?) That being said it was a fun exploration of time travel (of course with a young Hitler), Freud, and a time and place many of us don't know much about. I enjoyed it.
"The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga just won the Man Booker Prize (I thought Salman's book should have won it by the way because even though it wasn't his best it was richer than this one). All that being parenthetically said, I enjoyed the read. It is another first time writer (though an accomplished reporter). It is a mildly comic "murderer coming of age in a pretty screwed up have and have not world" sort of story (oh yes another one of those). Very compact exploration of Indian Society and the mind of an antihero.
"Slam" by Nick Hornby is yet another coming of age tale (About a Boy and High Fidelity where coming of age stories in different vein). Set in working class London with a teen who idolizes Tony Hawk (and maybe talks to him). The main character gets slammed pretty hard by life, maybe travels occasionally through time (hmm is time travel the new black?), and ultimately makes it through to the other side, older than his years. Small, good, and quick read.
Other things...
Films?
"Sunshine" by Danny Boyle (of Trainspotting & Millions & 28 Days Later fame) is a bit bloody but blindingly buildingly brilliant exploration of science fiction themes (like the sun is going out, we're all trapped on an ark and there is a murderer loose, space travel is long stretches of boredom complimented by moments of terror, and ecologies are fragile things). Anything Danny makes I will watch and this is no exception. He has a new one out called "Slumdog Millionaires" that promises to be good as well.
"Synecdoche, NY" is confusing, difficult, looping, lingering, halting, sprawling, small, dark, and somehow ultimately worth seeing again (I think people will love or hate it or a little of both and if you love it you'll end up wanting to see it again 24 hours after seeing it for the first time).
Music?
Department of Eagles and Beirut. Good.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Books 'n' Stuff September 08
Ok, its been a long time since I've posted. I'll probably miss some books but lets see how many I can remember since the last time...
"Court of the Air" by Stephen Hunt isn't really that much about the aforementioned court but it is a dark page turner set in a steampunk alternative universe (think Dickens meets China Melville). I'd give it pretty high rankings for what it was, a quick adventure featuring evil cross dimensional universe sucking spiders combined with kind hearted mechanical men and a government gone too far.
"Submarine" by Joe Dunthorne is a typical coming of age story about a way too smart kid, his dysfunctional parents, imagination, and adolescence in a small town in England. I started out liking it (sorta reminded me of Black Swan Green or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) but then it just kept being a bit too cute and clever and never really paid off.
"The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie is a deep dive into history and storytelling. A blend of fact and fiction is one part clash of Mughals versus Medicis and one part delight in telling stories of fantasy and flight.
"Midnight's Children" also by Mr. Rushdie but from way back in the 80's is in some ways the one that put him on the map. I finally got around to reading it. It is crazy good. Science fiction (what if 1001 children born at the stroke of midnight to 1am where somehow suffused with super powers and linked to the birth of India?) combined with autobiography and the modern history of India. I had to reread some pages a few times just to figure out what they meant (though partly I just enjoyed reading the poetry of the prose so much that I wanted to hear it more than once before moving on). If you read one deep sprawling tale this year, read this.
"The Hakawati" by Rabih Alameddine is a story of a family who lived through some very hard times in Lebanon interspersed with fables and fantasies from the ancient world. It is the first book I've read by Rabih, I'll read his others as well.
"Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross is a cross between his Accelerando future (just a bit of it) and his Jennifer Morgue playfulness with the James Bond thriller mode. Not really much more than a diversion of a novel I still enjoy his storytelling and inventiveness (though this isn't anywhere near as good in my opinion as the other two). Feels like he's trying to start a new series. Sexbot Bond in Space.
"City at the End of Time" by Greg Bear is completely impossible for me to really like. Very mind bending leaping from the end of time back to some parts in the past that are being destroyed by some all encompassing future danger meets books that do something important but I can't figure out what and godlike intelligences combined with a howling chaos. Huh?
"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is a revisiting of the "Big Brother" concept (extrapolating from 9/11 into a near future San Francisco) but from the standpoint of crowdsourcing revolt through xboxes and hacker kids. Readable and probably good for the boing boing generation (and people who aren't that geeky but want to understand a few off the implications of technology and the "war on terror") as a primer of some sort.
New Music?
The Duke Spirit (retro sounding in some ways but it rocks)
DeVotcka (odd gypsy stuff with some great hooks)
Beck (just plain best album of the year I'm thinking right now)
Girl Talk (DJ mixmaster craziness, I've never heard so many songs blended together from so many sources in one song ever... I love it in small doses)
"Court of the Air" by Stephen Hunt isn't really that much about the aforementioned court but it is a dark page turner set in a steampunk alternative universe (think Dickens meets China Melville). I'd give it pretty high rankings for what it was, a quick adventure featuring evil cross dimensional universe sucking spiders combined with kind hearted mechanical men and a government gone too far.
"Submarine" by Joe Dunthorne is a typical coming of age story about a way too smart kid, his dysfunctional parents, imagination, and adolescence in a small town in England. I started out liking it (sorta reminded me of Black Swan Green or Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) but then it just kept being a bit too cute and clever and never really paid off.
"The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie is a deep dive into history and storytelling. A blend of fact and fiction is one part clash of Mughals versus Medicis and one part delight in telling stories of fantasy and flight.
"Midnight's Children" also by Mr. Rushdie but from way back in the 80's is in some ways the one that put him on the map. I finally got around to reading it. It is crazy good. Science fiction (what if 1001 children born at the stroke of midnight to 1am where somehow suffused with super powers and linked to the birth of India?) combined with autobiography and the modern history of India. I had to reread some pages a few times just to figure out what they meant (though partly I just enjoyed reading the poetry of the prose so much that I wanted to hear it more than once before moving on). If you read one deep sprawling tale this year, read this.
"The Hakawati" by Rabih Alameddine is a story of a family who lived through some very hard times in Lebanon interspersed with fables and fantasies from the ancient world. It is the first book I've read by Rabih, I'll read his others as well.
"Saturn's Children" by Charles Stross is a cross between his Accelerando future (just a bit of it) and his Jennifer Morgue playfulness with the James Bond thriller mode. Not really much more than a diversion of a novel I still enjoy his storytelling and inventiveness (though this isn't anywhere near as good in my opinion as the other two). Feels like he's trying to start a new series. Sexbot Bond in Space.
"City at the End of Time" by Greg Bear is completely impossible for me to really like. Very mind bending leaping from the end of time back to some parts in the past that are being destroyed by some all encompassing future danger meets books that do something important but I can't figure out what and godlike intelligences combined with a howling chaos. Huh?
"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow is a revisiting of the "Big Brother" concept (extrapolating from 9/11 into a near future San Francisco) but from the standpoint of crowdsourcing revolt through xboxes and hacker kids. Readable and probably good for the boing boing generation (and people who aren't that geeky but want to understand a few off the implications of technology and the "war on terror") as a primer of some sort.
New Music?
The Duke Spirit (retro sounding in some ways but it rocks)
DeVotcka (odd gypsy stuff with some great hooks)
Beck (just plain best album of the year I'm thinking right now)
Girl Talk (DJ mixmaster craziness, I've never heard so many songs blended together from so many sources in one song ever... I love it in small doses)
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Books 'n' Stuff February 08
"Matter" by Ian M Banks is a return to his culture universe (a place reminiscent of the UK but after a trillion years of evolution... witty, dry, casually superior to the savages, cultured). I read all of his books the moment they come out. He's created a complete, self-consistent, and at times brutal setting for his characters. Things you can do in the culture? Think about it and start your body shifting from man to woman, lose a leg and regrow it, work because you feel like it, live mostly forever, sublime when you get bored. Things you can do if you're part of special circumstances (understated way to say that you're a part of the culture that is sorta the MI5 or CIA, Peace Corp, Warrior Class)? Shoot laser beams from your fingers, move fast enough to ignite the atmosphere, take over most machines and environments by thinking about it, and generally being a pretty bad a... It is escapism, but hey, once in a while that's what we need, no?
"The Assault On Reason" by Al Gore is a serious indictment of the political system and in some ways the citizenry of America. His claims are brutal and well documented and highlight a decline that has been slowly reducing our ability to talk, think, or act reasonably as a country. Much of it can be attributed to corporations now being treated as citizens (thanks to a supreme court decision from earlier in the century corporations now have freedom of speech and I guess to bear arms too...), the rise of one way communications (TV) focused more on entertaining than enlightening, the move towards constant campaigning instead of governing (instigated by the previous two developments) and the shift from being interested in the best interests of our country to being driven by party ideologies by some less than forthcoming leaders. Is there hope? He thinks so, though we have to hold people accountable, stop focusing more attention on the sensational story du jour (read Anna Nicole Smith, OJ, and the other media created hype machines) than on the fate of our world, and start using two-way methods more deliberately (read internet, public forums, and generally getting off our bums). Depressing, good.
"Brave Story" by Miyuki Miyabe was a long "wizard of oz-style" road movie kinda book, probably aimed at young adults rather than not as young ones. Coming of age fantasy set partly in Japan and partly in an otherworldly place that echoes the best and worst within us.
Other stuff?
Wyclef Jean's new album... Carnival II, is solid, "Once" inspires, Daniel Day Lewis is mesmerizing, and "Be Kind, Rewind" makes me want to go out tomorrow and swede life again. Nuff Said.
"The Assault On Reason" by Al Gore is a serious indictment of the political system and in some ways the citizenry of America. His claims are brutal and well documented and highlight a decline that has been slowly reducing our ability to talk, think, or act reasonably as a country. Much of it can be attributed to corporations now being treated as citizens (thanks to a supreme court decision from earlier in the century corporations now have freedom of speech and I guess to bear arms too...), the rise of one way communications (TV) focused more on entertaining than enlightening, the move towards constant campaigning instead of governing (instigated by the previous two developments) and the shift from being interested in the best interests of our country to being driven by party ideologies by some less than forthcoming leaders. Is there hope? He thinks so, though we have to hold people accountable, stop focusing more attention on the sensational story du jour (read Anna Nicole Smith, OJ, and the other media created hype machines) than on the fate of our world, and start using two-way methods more deliberately (read internet, public forums, and generally getting off our bums). Depressing, good.
"Brave Story" by Miyuki Miyabe was a long "wizard of oz-style" road movie kinda book, probably aimed at young adults rather than not as young ones. Coming of age fantasy set partly in Japan and partly in an otherworldly place that echoes the best and worst within us.
Other stuff?
Wyclef Jean's new album... Carnival II, is solid, "Once" inspires, Daniel Day Lewis is mesmerizing, and "Be Kind, Rewind" makes me want to go out tomorrow and swede life again. Nuff Said.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Books 'n' Stuff January 08
A few of the books and such that I've finished up recently...
"Halting States" by Charles Stross was a great little mini-thriller/detective story/day after tomorrow future/geek/gaming fun house. Basic premise? a bunch of orcs break into an online world and rob the vault, but in reality they maybe are chinese hackers trying to take down the economy in the real world (or substantial parts of it). Not as unlikely as it sounds. Team up a reclusive geek and a sword wielding analyst and add some random english wit and you've got another diverting ride from Mr. Stross. I recommend just about anything he's ever written.
"Nova Swing" by M. John Harrison was a book. Meh. Not bad, I liked some of his other work but this one seemed like just too much for me to get my head into. I finally did and it wasn't bad, but not worth spending money on. Set in a world where some alien artifact, manifested as a sort of dimensional tear in the fabric of things, makes predicting what will happen if you walk down a street hard to do. People (or something like them) start coming out of the tear and others are adventurers who want to go in. Whatever.
"Beautiful Children" by Charles Bock is a richly detailed journey into the seedier side of Las Vegas, adolescence, wasted youth, run away children, lost dreams and crushing helplessness. Well done. Bleak. Kinda reminded me in some parts of Chuck Palahniuk's work (though without the evil giggle burbling out of the edges of the page).
"Firstborn" is another time odyssey book by Arthur C. Clark and Stephen Baxter. Fluffy sorta hard sci-fi. Nothing really to see but distracting if you need that sorta thing.
"Proust was a Neuroscientist" by Jonah Lehrer is an interesting attempt to meld science and art. The author is the editor of Seed magazine which is a pretty nicely crafted art/science journal in itself. In this book he takes a number of artists (Proust, Cezanne, Walt Whitman, Auguste Escoffier, etc.) and explores how their art predated, predicted, explored current advances in science decades ahead of time. I enjoyed some aspects of the book and found others a bit of a stretch. Jonah is a really smart guy and I'll keep an eye out for more from him.
"Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson was a great exploration of Einstein's life and theories. Written to be accessible to a broader audience, Isaacson tries hard to explain some pretty heavy stuff. The biography is based on some recently released personal papers and as such is probably the most complete history of Einstein's life. Great nuggets? He graduated from school and spent 2 years or more trying to get a job and couldn't get anyone to give him the time of day (probably in part because he was jewish and in part because he sorta alienated a few of his professors). Worth reading.
"The Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan was both a memoir (he dated Barbara Walters, was dragged to celebrity parties, and declined Nixon's offer of a job in the white house after seeing Nixon lose it during a high pressure meeting for instance) and economic treatise (his basic theory is that market economies supported by an evenly applied rule of law and strong property rights have done more to raise the standard of living throughout the world than any other form of government AND that they are incredibly resilient to the ebb and flow of the human psyche). If you're interested in the economic implications of the current and future world (on its current trajectory), read it.
"The World To Come" by Dara Horn was a nice surprise. I picked it up on the road without really knowing what to expect and really enjoyed it. The story revolves around a child prodigy, artists from Russia (Chagall figures prominently), generational love stories and the plight of Russian Jews. In a sense its a book of stories about the world to come, many resurrected from lost Russian writers. Lyrical, imaginative, poignant, and captivating.
Other things...
Yeah Juno is actually really well done, and the sound track crackles, Charlie Wilson's War is pitch perfect, funny and deeply sad and I really did not like Sweeney Todd (I really can't stand musicals and almost walked out a few times even though I wanted so much to like it).
"Halting States" by Charles Stross was a great little mini-thriller/detective story/day after tomorrow future/geek/gaming fun house. Basic premise? a bunch of orcs break into an online world and rob the vault, but in reality they maybe are chinese hackers trying to take down the economy in the real world (or substantial parts of it). Not as unlikely as it sounds. Team up a reclusive geek and a sword wielding analyst and add some random english wit and you've got another diverting ride from Mr. Stross. I recommend just about anything he's ever written.
"Nova Swing" by M. John Harrison was a book. Meh. Not bad, I liked some of his other work but this one seemed like just too much for me to get my head into. I finally did and it wasn't bad, but not worth spending money on. Set in a world where some alien artifact, manifested as a sort of dimensional tear in the fabric of things, makes predicting what will happen if you walk down a street hard to do. People (or something like them) start coming out of the tear and others are adventurers who want to go in. Whatever.
"Beautiful Children" by Charles Bock is a richly detailed journey into the seedier side of Las Vegas, adolescence, wasted youth, run away children, lost dreams and crushing helplessness. Well done. Bleak. Kinda reminded me in some parts of Chuck Palahniuk's work (though without the evil giggle burbling out of the edges of the page).
"Firstborn" is another time odyssey book by Arthur C. Clark and Stephen Baxter. Fluffy sorta hard sci-fi. Nothing really to see but distracting if you need that sorta thing.
"Proust was a Neuroscientist" by Jonah Lehrer is an interesting attempt to meld science and art. The author is the editor of Seed magazine which is a pretty nicely crafted art/science journal in itself. In this book he takes a number of artists (Proust, Cezanne, Walt Whitman, Auguste Escoffier, etc.) and explores how their art predated, predicted, explored current advances in science decades ahead of time. I enjoyed some aspects of the book and found others a bit of a stretch. Jonah is a really smart guy and I'll keep an eye out for more from him.
"Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson was a great exploration of Einstein's life and theories. Written to be accessible to a broader audience, Isaacson tries hard to explain some pretty heavy stuff. The biography is based on some recently released personal papers and as such is probably the most complete history of Einstein's life. Great nuggets? He graduated from school and spent 2 years or more trying to get a job and couldn't get anyone to give him the time of day (probably in part because he was jewish and in part because he sorta alienated a few of his professors). Worth reading.
"The Age of Turbulence" by Alan Greenspan was both a memoir (he dated Barbara Walters, was dragged to celebrity parties, and declined Nixon's offer of a job in the white house after seeing Nixon lose it during a high pressure meeting for instance) and economic treatise (his basic theory is that market economies supported by an evenly applied rule of law and strong property rights have done more to raise the standard of living throughout the world than any other form of government AND that they are incredibly resilient to the ebb and flow of the human psyche). If you're interested in the economic implications of the current and future world (on its current trajectory), read it.
"The World To Come" by Dara Horn was a nice surprise. I picked it up on the road without really knowing what to expect and really enjoyed it. The story revolves around a child prodigy, artists from Russia (Chagall figures prominently), generational love stories and the plight of Russian Jews. In a sense its a book of stories about the world to come, many resurrected from lost Russian writers. Lyrical, imaginative, poignant, and captivating.
Other things...
Yeah Juno is actually really well done, and the sound track crackles, Charlie Wilson's War is pitch perfect, funny and deeply sad and I really did not like Sweeney Todd (I really can't stand musicals and almost walked out a few times even though I wanted so much to like it).
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