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calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote2007-06-09 10:09 pm

mini-reviews, one of each

Book: The Balkans: A Short History by Mark Mazower is supposed to be the best short book on the subject. I found it confusing, disordered, and not very attractive to the nonspecialist.

Album: The Beatles: "Love", George & Giles Martin's mashup, is certainly ingenious and full of unexpected renditions, but too much of it sounds like a radio trying to pick up two stations at once.

Movie: Little Miss Sunshine I thought I would probably hate, but it turned out to be the perfect balance between painful for the characters and funny for the viewer, this viewer anyway.

[identity profile] nellorat.livejournal.com 2007-06-10 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
It seems reasonable that a book on the Balkans would be confusing and disordered, but there are some ways in wcih art shouldn't imitate life.

Womzilla, Supergee, and I watched Little Miss Sunshine with my sibs when we were in for my brithday, and everyone really liked it.It's touching and laugh-out-loud funny, both. Also, I like how it celebrates beign what you are without necessarily saying that it's better to be weird or, worse yet, nad not to be weird.