Books
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini (NYT chart position: #1)
NYT description: "A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war."
- A beautiful tale that reminds us that friendship is about more than going to movies or late night chats, it's also about dodging land mines and mortar shells.
NYT description: "A hostage negotiator must face down her unknown stalker."
- This seems fairly cut-and- dried until you learn that the hostage negotiator's one weakness is an inability to handle high-stress situations.
NYT description: "The New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum becomes a suspect when her ex-husband disappears."
- And when the local authorities place a bounty on her head, Plum faces her greatest enemy yet: irony. To overcome this challenge, she must recruit the help of her father, who is a distinguished a professor, his dear friend Colonel Mustard and, of course, her trusty candlestick. Together, they will travel to the conservatory and track down the true killer.
NYT description: "J. P. Beaumont’s investigation of a murder suggests a conspiracy in high places."
- And for dinner, his investigation suggests the fillet mignon with a watercress and fresh spinach salad.
NYT description: "In an alternative British universe, Thursday Next, a special operative in literary detection, must cope with a killer on the loose in the Bookworld."
- The much anticpated sequel to Reading Rainbow (LeVar Burton already signed for film adaptation).
1. The Bourne Ultimatum (August 3-5: #1, $69,283,690)
From the Yahoo description: "Having lost his memory and the one person he loved, he is undeterred by the barrage of bullets and a new generation of highly-trained killers."
- I don't mean to be a party-pooper, but I'm pretty sure what makes bullets effective is that they don't care whether or not you're scared of them.
From the Yahoo description: "A top notch female chef's life is turned upside-down when she must care of her niece after her sister is killed. She now has to adapt to a different lifestyle and uses food as a means to express her roller-coaster life."
- It's the feel good weight gain movie of the year.
From the Yahoo description: "The Earth is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two races of robots, the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which are able to change into a variety of objects, including cars, trucks, planes and other technological creations."
- Give Michael Bay some credit. The film is actually a modern political allegory about partisan politics in the United States, where politicians from both parties are able to transform themselves into large cash donations.
From the Yahoo description: "On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable
- Exactly what kind of "rash" is that "ointment" being used for? This movie sounds kind of gross.
From the Yahoo description: "The year is 1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband to assure their daughter's future social standing."
- Wow, that sounds like a really exciting conflict brewing. Maybe Jane Austen should have written books like that.
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