Thanks to Scotman I saw this film. Lola with the blazing red hair gets a desperate call from her boyfriend Mani. Apparently, his 100,000 German Marks (before the Euro) that was due to a very … more
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ColoradoWriter posted a Quick Tip about The Reader.
June 16, 2010
What was your emotional reaction as you read? Why? Slightly dissapointed by the outcome, Kinda sad, not the ending I expected Who would you recommend this reading to and … more
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Scotman posted a Quick Tip about Run Lola Run.
June 07, 2010
Winner of the 1999 Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, Lola is fast (pun intended), action packed and musically moving movie, about a girl whose boyfriend is mixed with the mob and he's lost … more
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Scotman posted a Quick Tip about Run Lola Run.
June 07, 2010
Great seeing this fast-paced German film again. Man, Lola has stamina! Three alternate realities all based on a few seconds' difference can make all the changes in the world. If the light were green rather … more
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zack42wb posted a Quick Tip about The Reader.
June 03, 2010
After hearing about this place over and over again, I finally had to check it out and see for myself what about this 'hot dog' joint everybody was talking about. I mean, everybody has been telling me … more
Pitched at a level slightly beyond a primer, "Einstein und das tote Kaninchen" (Einstein and the Dead Rabbit) could be called a very light mystery for very young German readers. Of course, I … more
Where are all the hipsters flocking to downtown to get their new gourmet hot dog fix? That would be Wurstküche, a gastropub on 3rd St, DT, LA. Exotic sausages, Belgian fries, … more
Herta Muller is a Romanian-born German writer, known for her extremely controversial writings that criticise the Romanian Communist-era and its oppressive dictatorship. Since her books were all originally … more
As a beer lover always searching for the best tasting beer I felt I had to review one of my favorite beer if not my favorite beer. The Paulaner Salvator Doppelbock goes down in my books as one of … more
Having already reviewed the film version of "The Reader" I won't go into much detail about the storyline, other then to say it's pretty much the same basic thing. This is the book that started it … more
For those of us who still grapple with the unfathomable question of the extent of man's inhumanity to man - whether that be past and/or present wars, hate crimes, racism, bigotry - this small novel is … more
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stephaniezhu reviewed Run Lola Run.
December 28, 2008
I first saw Run Lola Run in a social studies class in high school... and let me just say, it blew me away. I can't remember ALL the details of this movie, but here's the quick run down. Lola … more
When Michael was fifteen, he began an affair with a middle-aged woman named Hanna. They shared little beyond the physical relationship; she was not a talker or a thinker as he was, but she did seem to … more
This is an interesting book in that it reads as a simple novel of a young man's first sexual experience with an older woman, and yet we all know it is so much more than that. Like all stories relating … more