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Many e-zines include a page or more of reviews of such things as movies, books, television shows, CDs, and so on. Here's a
format I might use for my reviews.
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Books
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atlas is a serious as well as a seriously long book. If you like Heinlein's "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch"
mentality, you will love her philosphy, almost preached to death in these pages. It is quite appealing to those who are not
afraid of and understand the need for hard work. It is also appealing to the compulsively creative who are sure that even
if they were unemployed, they would not be bored and idle.
The danger is in the extreme of the "If a man does not work, neither shall he eat" ethos. Although the Apostle Paul's
words are well taken, he is speaking of the willingly idle and not of the unwillingly idle. Rand seems to leave no room for
inability or compassion. Her ethos is almost so Darwinian as to deny humanity. In her world, the truly human are strong and
aggressive, almost like a productive Fight Club.
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Movies
National Treasure
A successful attempt to beat the DaVinci Code to the punch, using some of the same premises and plot elements. It is
a good thing. Cage convinces us not only of the adventure in which he is embroiled, but of the blatant fiction of his quest.
It is a background music that is fitting to the DaVinci code. Brown's book draws so much on fact that it is difficult to separate
it from the generous portions of unverifiable fiction.
National Treasure is a romp through our nation's values. One keeps wishing that Lara Croft was along to help Cage figure
out his next step. However, he seems to do ok on his own. He and Jolie would probably have competed more than cooperated anyway.
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Music
Three Ships
Jon Anderson
Coming soon
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