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Incendiary
$27.98
The movie was interest. Watching this woman deal with her grief and guilt was a bit strange. I would not watch the second time.

Incendiary
$12.95
The majority of the book follows the inner turmoil of the narrator as she comes to grips both with the tremendous sense of innocence lost in the terrorist attack that killed her family, and with the fact that she hadn't much innocence to lose in the first place, as she was cheating on her husband when the attack took place. That terrible dichotomy tortures her and in the end drives her mad.

This novel forces us to re-examine our focus on the effects of terrorism. We tend to think in terms of the physical toll in terms of lives lost, structures damaged, economies affected, but the real stories of loss are about those who are left behind. While the attack described in the novel is awful in its destruction, it is nothing compared to the paranoia, hysteria, and despair that follow among the survivors, and how those individual reactions collectively impact England.

Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of our Times
$14.95
A collection of articulate essays written at different times and on different places and about different experiences. Though the piece on 9/11 was disappointing. It lacks depths of the other essays. The reader gets a glimpse of different places, different people, different politics, and of course how the "incendiary circumstances" have changed/affected/moulded peoples lives across borders. A superb pastime reading indeed !

The Royal Sessions
$16.95
When I first got this CD I was really pumped up, and the first few times I played it, I was pretty darn excited. The story is a great one--an ofay bass player brining back together the crack Stax session players to lay down some cuts in Willie Mitchell's Memphis studio. Whoa!

After some more plays, however, some of the thrill is gone. This is good stuff, but not great stuff. The trumpet playing annoyed me even on the first listen; I surely wish they had decided not to include a trumpet in these sessions.

Still, if you are a fan of the old Memphis sound, then you will want to give The Royal Sessions an audition. It may not be a great recording, but it really is pretty good.