http://theopencritic.com Literate Discourse of Literary Works Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:50:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 en http://theopencritic.com/?p=223 http://theopencritic.com/?p=223#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:50:13 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Book Reviews http://theopencritic.com/?p=223 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=223 http://theopencritic.com/?p=219 http://theopencritic.com/?p=219#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:22:21 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Book Reviews http://theopencritic.com/?p=219 We gotta start by asking the question: What is it with Miike and stainless steel torture spikes. I mean, we’ve all watched hundreds of horror films with classical anti-heroes like Jason and Freddy and Jigsaw, I‘ve never come across a film maker with such a preoccupation with impaling living, pleading for mercy, central characters with 12-inch long pieces of steel. We just don‘t have such a concept in the west. Yet, here‘s a film maker whom one could imagine carries his own set around like Graham Kerr (the galloping gourmet of our youths) might carry a set of decorative carving knives in his tweed jacket pocket.]]> http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=219 http://theopencritic.com/?p=216 http://theopencritic.com/?p=216#comments Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:16:39 +0000 alina110 Contemporary FictionBook ReviewFictionFurynovelpostmodernSalman Rushdie http://theopencritic.com/?p=216 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=216 http://theopencritic.com/?p=21 http://theopencritic.com/?p=21#comments Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:50:32 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Speculative Fiction Youth Fiction Contemporary FictionBook ReviewHis Dark Materialsphilip pullmanThe Golden Compass http://theopencritic.com/?p=21 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=21 http://theopencritic.com/?p=3 http://theopencritic.com/?p=3#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 05:43:55 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Adventure Literature Autobiography Travel LiteratureBook ReviewHeinrich HarrerLhasaSeven Years in Tibettibet http://theopencritic.com/?p=3 Heinrich Harrer arrived in Lhasa unbidden, unwelcome, and on the lam from a British internment camp. Tenacity brought him through the city’s defenses. The size of his heart endeared him to the locals. In anecdote after anecdote we are reminded that he gave as much as he was given. – translation services, medical advice, engineering … At first a novelty in the capital, he soon became indispensable, and later a fixture.]]> http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=3 http://theopencritic.com/?p=214 http://theopencritic.com/?p=214#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:04:23 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Youth FictionBigelow Middle SchoolBook ReviewLiteratureMonsterThe Open CriticWalter Dean Myers http://theopencritic.com/?p=214 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=214 http://theopencritic.com/?p=213 http://theopencritic.com/?p=213#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:58:42 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Youth FictionBigelow Middle SchoolBook ReviewFat Kid Rules the WorldK.L. GoingThe Open CriticYouth Literature http://theopencritic.com/?p=213 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=213 http://theopencritic.com/?p=212 http://theopencritic.com/?p=212#comments Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:56:23 +0000 Moraine Contemporary FictionBest SellerBigelow Middle SchoolBook ReviewLiteratureMark HaddonThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time http://theopencritic.com/?p=212 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=212 http://theopencritic.com/?p=211 http://theopencritic.com/?p=211#comments Mon, 21 May 2007 19:50:35 +0000 Peter Williams Youth Fiction Contemporary FictionBigelow Middle SchoolGregory MaGuireMirror MirrorSnow WhiteThe Open CriticYouth Literature http://theopencritic.com/?p=211 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=211 http://theopencritic.com/?p=210 http://theopencritic.com/?p=210#comments Mon, 21 May 2007 19:48:23 +0000 Trevor Paetkau Youth FictionBigelow Middle SchoolBook ReviewFat Kid Rules the WorldK.L. GoingThe Open CriticYouth Literature http://theopencritic.com/?p=210 http://theopencritic.com/?feed=rss2&p=210