On the film "Expelled"

Without having seen the movie personally, I don't wish to declare it "propaganda" although from what I've heard, that's exactly what it is. I doubt, however, that it qualifies as a documentary. To the curious/open-minded/scientifically sound, I present two links for your exploring pleasure: Seeing Ben Stein's "Expelled" as Propaganda (the title is more inflammatory than the text, which makes an extremely valid point about the association of "atheism" and "evolution" with Nazi concentration camps), and the general index site Expelled Exposed.

Cheers.

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Cerulean Sins, & Incubus Dreams, by Laurell K. Hamilton

Cerulean Sins
by Laurell K. Hamilton
405 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/Romance

Incubus Dreams
by Laurell K. Hamilton
658 pages (hardcover)
Genre: Fiction/Fantasy/Romance

I had originally planned to discuss these two books separately, but I realized that what I have to say--which isn't much--basically applies to both books. I read them very quickly in succession, enjoyed it on a pure fluff level, but can't remember anything about the actual plot content. That should tell you something.

In both novels, I found several careless copyediting errors and choppy prose that could easily have been fixed. The flaws are more visible if you read a lot in one "sitting" (in my case, large chunks of 1000+ hardcover pages over about a day and a half). Notes on character: Anita is so controlling, as well as being an idiot when it comes to Nathaniel. I still <3 Nathaniel, still annoyed at Micah's perfection, still hate Richard's guts. Nothing new. From Wiki-research, apparently Anita is actually--gasp!--celibate in the first four books. Now I'm very curious, because I have yet to read a Hamilton book without gratituous sex. Are her earlier Anita Blake volumes actually urban/paranormal fantasy, rather than very solidly on the romance side?

While my estimation of Hamilton isn't exactly high, I do respect her for her ability to command reader sympathy for her characters. (I just hate Richard because angsty werewolf = BURNING HATRED in my quirky book.) And as fluff romance reading, Hamilton is almost too good--I couldn't put it down while I was in the middle of a book.