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Fifty Shades of Grey
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E L James
anninsaltlakecity
, May 02, 2012
I gulped down this trilogy in a weekend -- despite the fact that the first novel is a blatant combination of "Twilight" and "Nine and a Half Weeks." Set in Seattle (and Portland), our rich, adopted, moody hero has a secret to be discovered and copper-colored hair; his mother is a doctor. Our lovely heroine who doesn't know she can possibly be desirable is clumsy with a hippie-style mother in need of mothering and a Mexican friend (that's close to Indian, right?) who is in love with her but she can't accept him because she is in love with our hero (but she toys with his affections, much to our hero's chagrin). The sex -- yes, folks, it's "Twilight" on steroids -- is raunchy and graphic but very entertaining if you can stomach detailed bondage scenes -- and the whole romance makes for compulsive, if slightly guilty, reading. I recommend it with reservations for diehard Twilight fans out there -- it isn't for teens, strictly very adult fantasy.
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Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley
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Thomas J. Harvey
anninsaltlakecity
, January 19, 2012
The modernization and urbanization of crowded Eastern cities at the turn of the 20th century drove some to seek out a "wild" American West they saw as a primitive landscape filled with Indians and trading posts while offering railways to get them there and comfortable hotels to stay in upon arrival writes Thomas Harvey in this intriguing look at how the Old West was "made" modern. With absorbing chapters on Zane Grey, John Ford and others who shaped the view of a region that is still sacred to the Navajo, he traces the commercialization of the area up to the current use of Monument Valley scenery in Jeep advertisements while also taking a serious look at the wilderness movement and the issues of the Colorado River dam, Glen Canyon and the legal interests of the Navajo Nation in Rainbow Bridge. This book offers important insight into American cultural psychology and the realization of the sacred and profane in the Four Corners region while being a thoroughly researched but hard-to-put-down read.
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