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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: August 2015
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Monday, August 31, 2015. Ranking the James Bond Movies. So my son is 10 years old, and over the past year or so, we've been watching some of the James Bond movies together. Many of these I have not seen since I was in high school. We have half a dozen on DVD, so I'll rank those as well as Casino Royale. Which I've watched twice since its release in 2006 and believe I remember well enough to rank. 2 points- Is the plot coherent and logical? Are the stakes high? Top 3 (2 points).
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: Ranking the Avengers Movies
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Saturday, July 26, 2014. Ranking the Avengers Movies. A few weeks ago I ranked the X-Men movies. And promised I would do some more superhero movies in the future. Let's do the Avengers movies, from best to worst. If you recall, the ranking system was arranged so:. The best in the Avengers franchise, and one of the best comic-based movies ever made. Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. Thor 2: The Dark World. Feels like a TV movie. No sense of wonder at all. X-Men 3: Last Stand.
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: July 2015
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Monday, July 27, 2015. What I'm Reading: Roundup. Little Town on the Prairie. With the Banks of Plum Creek. Friday, July 17, 2015. What I'm Reading: Five Dialogues. Is comprised of five short dialogues, each about 20-40 pages, and which all star Plato's teacher Socrates as the main speaker. The dialogues have to do with the trial and execution of Socrates by the city of Athens in 399 BC on the spurious charges of corrupting the youth of the city. You read that for fun? 160;...
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: Ranking the Summer 2015 Marvel Movies
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Ranking the Summer 2015 Marvel Movies. So far I've ranked the Batman movies. The other DC movies. And the non-Marvel and non-DC comic movies. There's only one major franchise of super-hero movies I haven't ranked yet, and that is the Spider-Man franchise. But I'll continue to put that off for a while, while I rank this summer's comic book movies. As ever, my ranking system is. Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. X-Men 2: X-Men United. Hey, a comment!
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: Ranking the Superman Movies
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Sunday, August 3, 2014. Ranking the Superman Movies. All right, we've done the X-Men movies. And the Avengers movies. Let's do the Superman movies. As before, the ranking system is. Superman (1978) (rewatched it recently and found it still excellent). Superman II (I've seen it a number of times over the years and it's one of my favorites). Superman Returns (2006) (not bad, but kind of bland). Man of Steel (Haven't seen). Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier. X-Men 3: Last Stand.
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: Best books of the Bible
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Best books of the Bible. My final post of Lent, a list of the top five books of the Bible! Of course top favorites lists are kind of ridiculous. Boiling down all the artistry and importance of, in this case, books of the Bible, to one dimension is an overly simplifying and even arrogant exercise. So let's get to it! The Acts of the Apostles. The Gospel of John. The First Book of Samuel. Well, this one mainly because my son is named after him. The bo...
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: What I'm Reading: Roundup
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Sunday, June 28, 2015. What I'm Reading: Roundup. Some of my recent reading:. My son read this book in his fourth-grade class this year for a class project, and since the book was lying around I picked it up. I probably haven't read it since I was his age! Is a new comic series written by Cullen Bunn and beautifully, and so, so creepily, drawn/watercolored by Tyler Crook. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ballad of Dani and Eli. What Im Reading: Roundup. All true.) . He inte...
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: What I'm Reading: Nine Princes in Amber
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Wednesday, December 17, 2014. What I'm Reading: Nine Princes in Amber. Series, the Amber. Series by Roger Zelazny is one I enjoyed greatly when I was younger and have decided to revisit. The first rather slim volume, Nine Princes in Amber. Came out in 1970. I first read it in probably the 10th grade and immediately noticed it was different than other fantasy books I'd read. Although it does have kings and magic and such, it eschews the warmed-over Lord of the Rings. What Im Rea...
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog: What I'm Reading: The Hand of Oberon
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The Ballad of Nick's Blog. Saturday, June 20, 2015. What I'm Reading: The Hand of Oberon. I recently finished The Hand of Oberon. By Roger Zelazny, the fourth in the series of Amber novels (see here. For write-ups on previous novels in the series). Last month I also read the third book in the series, Sign of the Unicorn. But did not write it up. Alas, I've been extremely busy lately and have neglected this blog! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ballad of Dani and Eli. What Im Reading: Roundup. He has ...
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