Name: Chris Bancells
Dateline: Maryland
Weblog: runningbowline.com [RSS]
Articles: 24
First Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Last Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008
Currently listing articles 24-1:
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The Great Book Adventure: Don Quixote - Part Two— Don Quixote rides into an awfully familiar mess.
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The Great Book Adventure: Don Quixote - Part One— Don Quixote de la Mancha, more modern than you know.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Three Musketeers - Part Three— It's been called the greatest cloak and sword story ever written. Now I know why.
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Music DVD Review: Jimmy Buffett's Scenes You Know By Heart— Buffett's new concert DVD lacks the 'heart' of his previous work.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Three Musketeers - Part Two— Where are the brothers in this brotherhood of men?
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The Great Book Adventure: The Three Musketeers - Part One— The French can't fight? Don't tell that to The Three Musketeers.
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A Summer Senator— There're no politics with this Senator, only popcorn.
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The Great Book Adventure: Slaughterhouse-Five— Is Slaughterhouse-Five a great book? I'm still trying to figure it out.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part Three— The 21st century could use more Thoreau.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part Two— "Simplify! Simplify!" Is more complex than you think.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part One— Thoreau calls us to simplify and it's one we should heed, now more than ever.
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The Great Book Adventure: Peter Pan - Part Two— Between Captain Hook and Peter Pan is Wendy and a word of caution.
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The Great Book Adventure: Peter Pan - Part One— It turns out the Neverland isn't quite what we expected.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part Three— With Charles Dickens and Bleak House, time is on your side.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part Two— Caught in a web of personalities in which I’m willingly tangled...
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Three Reasons Americans Should Be Watching Soccer— It's on basic cable, it's as competitive as any other bracket tournament, and it's up-tempo.
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Music Review: The Spiderwick Chronicles Soundtrack— James Horner scores The Spiderwick Chronicles in grand orchestral style.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part One
— How great is Charles Dickens? Is Bleak House a masterpiece? The Great Book Adventure continues...
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Music Review: Horace Silver - Live at Newport '58— A recently discovered live recording shows pianist Horace Silver on his way to bebop greatness.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part Three— At the end of it all, is The Picture of Dorian Gray worth reading?
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Watch it! Maryland vs. Duke is Sunday— The Duke Blue Devils come to the Comcast Center for an ACC throwdown with the Terps.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part Two— Dorian Gray falls under Lord Harry's influence, to more than just his picture's detriment.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part One— The Picture of Dorian Gray opens with mixed results.
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Loading the Canon, or The Preamble to the Great Book Adventure— What makes great books great? Is the western canon still valid? Let the adventure begin.
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