what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{4.5/5} “Everybody runs.” John is chief in the precrime unit of the Washington DC police force. Due to the ability of three precogs to see murders in the future, the precrime unit has been able to eliminate all murders for the past six years — the murderers are caught beforehand. Precrime is set to go national […]
{5/5} “If we looked for everyone who tried to kill you, we’d do nothing else.” Michael’s new handler Carla demands that he do jobs for her once in a while — meanwhile, he tries to find out everything he can about her. Fiona decides to stop trying to be Michael’s girlfriend. And Sam’s girlfriend Veronica wants him […]
{4/5} “I fear this quest has set in motion forces we do not yet understand.” Gandalf the Grey comes to the home of Bilbo Baggins to offer him an unexpected opportunity — go on an adventure. A group of dwarves has decided now is the time to reclaim their home, which has been taken over […]
{4.5/5} “Everything will be all right in the end… if it’s not all right then it’s not yet the end.” A group of retirees from Britain, previously unknown to each other, travel to Jaipur, India to live in a hotel. The hotel turns out to be a bit more run down than the brochure indicated. […]
{4.5/5} “This is what happens when people have a you-know-what occur in their lives. They wake up one day and they say, ‘I’m going to quit my job and try something completely different with my life.’ But then they wake up another day and they say to themselves, ‘Thank God my older brother didn’t let […]
{4.5/5} “You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock […]
{4.5/5} “Did someone eat an onion bagel?” Andy, fresh out of school, goes to New York to be a magazine writer. The only job she can get is assistant at a fashion magazine. Even though she doesn’t know anything about fashion she’s whimsically hired by the editor, Miranda, who’s big in the fashion world and […]
{4.5/5} “The human race had encountered only one alien species, ever, and had fought a war of extinction with them. According to a story told by the writer of The Hive Queen under the pseudonym ‘Speaker for the Dead,’ the Formics had not meant to wipe out the human race at all. But Carlotta wasn’t […]
{4.5/5} “In many ways… Venetan culture is a better fit with the Tzenkethi than the Federation. Both civilizations are very stable and achieve that stability through a certain degree of conformism on the part of their members rather than encouraging individualism… Your Federation explorers and we Ferengi entrepreneurs are perhaps somewhat baffling to the Venetans. […]
{4.5/5} “In a career that had taken him from the lowest foot soldier to the supreme commander of the Romulan military forces, the admiral had learned to identify most of the real enemies in the galaxy: ego, arrogance, self-righteousness, a hunger for power, a lack of compassion and perspective, an unwillingness to understand. In his […]