Advantages: Very well acted, absorbing, intense, shocking in parts Disadvantages: A little mawkish at the end
of the storyline away, but I'll speak a little about my own feelings on The Prince Of Tides.
I watched this film on the recommendation of a friend, and I was a little apprehensive because my friend's and my own tastes in films, music etc. doesn't always coincide, but when she told me this was about delving into the history of a deeply dysfunctional family, I decided to give it a watch - at the time I was going through some counselling myself, dealing with a few of my own childhood issues, and I thought it may be something I could perhaps identify with.
I settled alone one evening to watch The Prince Of Tides, and as the film rolled on and got into the storyline, my eyes were becoming more firmly glued to the screen. I found one or two parts of it touched a little too close for comfort on a couple of my own childhood experiences, but that was ...
Advantages: Trademark unique narration, "Accurate Fiction" Disadvantages: A little erratic pacing, Not the author's best
After nullifying the latest Persian threat and enjoying a few golden decades of supremacy, Greece did what Greece does: broke out in a ruthless civil war. Athens battled Sparta for the rule of Ancient Greece and the 27-year struggle's physical and spiritual toll was irreparable.
As the momentum of the conflict continually veered from one side to the other, one man's life reflected these, ever-changing, tides of war. Relentless on the battlefield and cunning in politics, Alcibiades' combination of qualities made him that era's most instrumental individual. Through the eyes of two almost ordinary men, Steven Pressfield shows us how close genius is to insanity and true heroism to despiteful treason, as we see Alcibiades coldly changing sides throughout the Peloponnesian War.
***The Author***
Although there fortunately are many ...
Advantages: Results in clean, fresh-smelling laundry Disadvantages: Somewhat costly
For three generations, the women of my family have selected Tide as their laundry detergent. At first, I chose Tide simply because both my mother and grandmother had used it.
Don't minunderstand, Granny didn't always use Tide. A rural woman who mastered many traditional crafts, she often preferred her own "lye soap," which she manufactured from wood ash and animal fat. But when she bothered to use her hard-earned currency to acquire store-bought soap powders, she usually chose Tide. Having failed to learn the secrets of making lye soap, I opted to follow my own mother's path down the aisles of supermarkets toward the bright orange, yellow, and blue packaging of Tide.
****My Apostasies****
It's not that I haven't flirted with other detergents. Despite a rich family legacy of laundry lessons learned, there have been ...
BawBaw 01.05.2003 (04.05.2003)
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