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The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown

Lee — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:54:03 +0000

Spoilers below.

Unfortunately, like The Da Vinci Code, its plot twists were quite predictable. The moment after reading about Peter Solomon’s son, Zachary dying and of the intruder who killed Isobel Solomon, you just KNOW that they were the same person! The more of Dan Brown‘s work I read, the more disappointed I become; Angels & Demons, Deception Point and Digital Fortress were all good thrillers, but The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol are just quite unsatisfactory.

Lost by Gregory Maguire

Lee — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:22:24 +0000

I picked this book up as I had heard great things about it’s author, Gregory Maguire and his other works specifically Wicked and Son of a Witch.

Sadly to say I was a bit disappointed. It took ages for the main character and story to get going, the first 100 pages just drag on and on with nothing really important except the obligatory vague back story. Winnie Rudge is a writer who lives in her own characters’ shoes rather than in her own, she is just going through the motions in her own life, and this is how the majority of the book feels. There are very little plot twists and half of what happened I was able to predict before the next chapter started.

Sheryl Crow @ Rexall Place

Lee — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:23:04 +0000

Well I hate to say it, but the best thing I took away from this performance was the navy t-shirt from the merch table.

I was not impressed at all with Sheryl’s performance. First off she could barely walk in the high heels she was wearing, which made her look like she was walking around drugged or drunk. The sound was atrocious. They blasted it trying to fill the not-even-close-to-a-sellout-crowd-in-the-arena. It was just horrible! Add to that, Sheryl tried within the first two songs to get crowd interaction. Wrong! You need to build up your bond with the crowd before you can ask things of them. Plus when you have a less than stellar opening band you have to work extra hard to earn the $60-$100 ticket price.

Flo Mounier @ Bar Wild

Lee — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 05:52:01 +0000

On Thursday I went along with my step-dad and his brother to see Flo Mounier hold a drum clinic. The venue was pretty nice, and I wouldn”t mind going back for more functions and I liked the set up. Back to the clinic, Flo is just amazing. He is crazy fast, and really super talented. Admittedly he needs to do a bit more work on his stage presence and public speaking, but other than that he did rather well. The one super drunk fan up front really loved him, no matter what he did though