http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/ en-us 2004-08-22T02:27:37-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003888.html I got two movies to watch tonight. "Half-Caste" is a horrible horror movie from South Africa. It is about a leopard-man. The kernel of the premise was good. The writing portrayed a very bigoted American view of the native culture.... AaronBennett 2004-08-22T02:27:37-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003681.html I got this book-on-tape to listen to as I drove to Seton Hill. I was not a big fan of The Bonfire of the Vanities movie, so I didn't read the book. I did not know what to expect from... AaronBennett 2004-06-29T17:50:45-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003611.html Skating on the Edge by d.g.k. goldberg A main character on roller-skates, a world on the edge of reality? From the very first sentence, we know this is not going to be an entirely serious book. It is a very... AaronBennett 2004-06-16T20:32:01-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003593.html Dead Eyes by Stuart Woods. The ending was not unexpected, it came out of nowhere. There were a few people that were hinted at as possible suspects if the main guy was it. Because of the type of novel, you... AaronBennett 2004-06-13T17:54:16-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003453.html I finished Capote's In Cold Blood. It got fairly boring for me at the end. I'm not big into courtroom stuff, especially when I know the outcome. Perhaps it would have better if it wasn't a true story, so... AaronBennett 2004-05-11T17:21:49-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003451.html Ok, I finally hunted down a copy of the movie "Manitou." I remembered seeing it at one of the video stores I used to go to. I found it at the store in Ypsilanti where I lived two years... AaronBennett 2004-05-11T15:02:39-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003173.html I read The Bear Walk by Christina Rencontre this weekend. It was a creative thesis for the author's Master's degree at Northern Michigan University. The elements of actual bearwalking were not that prevalent in the story. Teeple does see... AaronBennett 2004-04-20T14:49:21-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/003071.html Gray Matter & Other Stories - Stephen King I read this a very long time ago. Since my library has very few good books on tape, I decided to re-experience it. I liked all of the stories but it was... AaronBennett 2004-04-12T17:21:45-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002926.html I read (or rather, listened to) Edith Warton's short story collection, The Eyes. I see from this why she became popular. These are good stories with 3D characters. This was a good example of what you can do in... AaronBennett 2004-03-28T15:24:04-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002867.html Take Camus' Stranger, and turn him into a hick farmer. Mix a dash of Humbert from Nabakov's Lolita. It is a good novella, but not great. It seems like an excellent back plot to a novel. If there was something... AaronBennett 2004-03-23T23:03:46-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002807.html A Choir of Ill Chlidren by Tom Piccirilli. Remember this book. I forgot to talk about it in my last post. If you have not read it, go out and get it. It will be coming out in mmp from... AaronBennett 2004-03-20T16:59:03-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002800.html I finished listening to October Country. It was a special treat to hear Bradbury himself reading it. That is the perfect way to get a story, exactly as the author intended. I wish there had been more of Uncle... AaronBennett 2004-03-19T17:27:46-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002687.html I know this is a writing journal, but sometimes life beats so hard on our writing life that the two can't help but merge into a horrid beast of reality. I came home after school today to find half of... AaronBennett 2004-03-10T20:27:21-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002644.html I started drinking last night, just a little rum to start the creative juices flowing so I can get my submission in on time, and events transpired to get me completely wasted. Now, that happens very rarely. I have a... AaronBennett 2004-03-08T12:59:09-05:00 http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AaronBennett/002534.html I watched a really interesting video from the library. It was called "Nightmares," it was apparently done by A&E. It tells the truth behind the writing of Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, and The Hound of the Baskervilles.... AaronBennett 2004-02-29T15:49:31-05:00