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		<title>Netflix Review: Lillyhammer Season One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s kind of a no-brainer that Netflix has ventured into the world of original content production &#8212; with a less-than-exciting library of streaming content (huhm, do I watch re-runs of the Office, or a National Geographic Channel prison &#8220;documentary&#8221;?), there is a definite need for added value for subscribers. Original content makes a lot of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2012/02/21/netflix-review-lillyhammer-season-one/</link>
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		<title>Blu-Ray Review: Tiny Furniture by Lena Dunham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in a very weird place when it comes to how I feel about Lena Dunham&#8217;s debut film, Tiny Furniture. On the one hand, I respect here accomplishment &#8212; taking the standard coming of age film and subverting our expectations, de-romanticizing youth and offering an unsentimental look at a young woman&#8217;s immediate post-college days at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2012/02/19/blu-ray-review-tiny-furniture-by-laura-dunham/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Operators by Michael Hastings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may remember how back in 2010 an article in Rolling Stone got General Stanley McChrystal fired from his job running the war in Afghanistan. McChrystal and his team were presented as arrogant, free-wheeling and insubordinate, bashing the President, as well as the civilian leadership. I remember finding very little surprising about how McChrystal was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2012/01/23/book-review-the-operators-by-michael-hastings/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maureen McHugh&#8217;s new collection of stories, After the Apocalypse, is not so much about the literal end of the world, as it is about the metaphorical end we all face. It deals largely with characters who have passed through their own personal ends and are now trying to survive in the wake of the worst [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2012/01/06/book-review-after-the-apocalypse-by-maureen-mchugh/</link>
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		<title>The Demise of Video Rentals and Book Stores is not the Apocalypse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am really getting tired of reading stories like this one from Salon, where the author laments the passing of the old brick and mortar order and eulogizes (and romanticizes) the shop clerk. Woe to that lost class of gatekeepers, who recommended so many books and records and videos to the ignorant masses. Farewell, to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2012/01/03/the-demise-of-video-rentals-and-book-stores-is-not-the-apocalypse/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, I&#8217;ve tried to get through novels in the post-human, post-singularity, &#8220;New Space Opera&#8221; genre of science fiction, but found each book a chore. Not so much for the arcane and convoluted visions of the future presented by the authors, but because of the lack of humanity in the post-human characters. I just had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2011/12/30/book-review-the-quantum-thief-by-hannu-rajaniemi/</link>
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		<title>Blu-Ray Review: Naked by Mike Leigh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first contact with Mike Leigh&#8217;s film Naked came with a series of soundbites that DJ&#8217;s at the University of Maryland&#8217;s college radio station had sampled and turned into station ID&#8217;s. These included several monologues by David Thewlis&#8217; frustrated and angry protagonist, Johnny, including his rants about the coming apocalypse. This prompted me to seek [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2011/12/11/blu-ray-review-naked-by-mike-leigh/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ready Player One has been hailed as this generation&#8217;s Neuromancer and Snow Crash &#8212; though the comparisons may be a bit hyperbolic, it is undoubtedly the cleverest novel about virtual life I&#8217;ve read in awhile. Granted, Ernest Cline isn&#8217;t writing on the same level as William Gibson or Neal Stephenson did in their prime, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2011/11/11/book-review-ready-player-one-by-ernest-cline/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Axis by Robert Charles Wilson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Charles Wilson&#8217;s Spin was an exhilarating novel, perhaps one of the best science fiction novels of recent years. It combined big ideas with a sweeping story and rich, engaging characters. The only other recent novel in the genre I&#8217;ve liked more is Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Ananthem, and that&#8217;s saying quite a bit. There have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2011/10/27/book-review-axis-by-robert-charles-wilson/</link>
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		<title>Blu-Ray Review: Tetro by Francis Ford Coppola</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many years, director Francis Ford Coppola has been threatening a return to what he calls &#8220;personal film making,&#8221; a style of film he hasn&#8217;t worked in since 1974&#8242;s The Conversation. At long last, Coppola returns to personal cinema with Tetro, an intriguing examination of the relationship between fathers and sons. Shot in stunning black-and-white, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jeffzombie.com/2011/08/24/blu-ray-review-tetro-by-francis-ford-coppola/</link>
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