Message 686

Yesterday I had breakfast at Heidi's Pies with Reggie, Vanessa, Annie, and Maureen. I finished reading The Economist and Science from last week. In the evening I watched a DVD of the movie Talk of Angels. It was a movie about the start of the Spanish Civil War, and I had the feeling I had seen it before but I could not remember it for sure. It was well done, but I did not care much for it, so I give it only three stars.

I also finished reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons, a book Marty recommended to me after we both read another of his books titled The Terror, which I liked a lot. Hyperion was also the title of a poem by John Keats and this book made a lot of references to him. It was modeled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, but it was mainly a science-fiction/ fantasy-fiction work that mostly did not hang together too well, perhaps because it has a sequel that I have not read.
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