LITERAL REMAINS

Wow, it’s July 29th already!  It’s almost friggin’ August!  Christmas will be here before we know it.  Do you ever get cravings for eggnog?  That boiled custard stuff is the bee’s knees.

I intended to do a middle of the year wrap up last month, since June is technically the half way point, but if you’ve read my previous entry then you know I’ve been kind of lazy lately.  Just lately.  Ignore what anyone else may say contrary to that statement.  So, I thought I would go ahead and do it now, because if not now, when?  Am I right?  Yeah, I am.  So here’s a list of some the best books and movies I have read and seen this so far in 2009.

It’s not been a banner year, as of yet, on the book front.  I’ve read some disappointing little tomes, and I’ve read some really bad stabs of literary lameness.  Hopefully, by the end of December, this list will be so difficult to compile I’ll have to beat my head against the wall to narrow it down.  As it stands, I really couldn’t come up with five (5!) books that I considered the cream of the crop.  I had to settle with four.  [clicking on the number next to the name will take you to my original review].

1.  Drood: A Novel by Dan Simmons
2.  Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
3.  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
4.  Elsewhere by William Peter Blatty

Now, with the movies, I have seen some true gems.  If you look through our movie reviews you’ll some of the more well known, mainstream, films, but I like to go after those that fly in under the radar.  Movies that may be little known, but deserve an audience.  The list that follows is mixture of both.

1.  The Midnight Meat Train
2.  Let The Right One In
3.  Quarantine
4.  Splinter
5.  The Hangover

John
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