Séighin Ó Ceallaigh

My first book review, and may as well start with the last book that I finished reading, The Road  by Cormac McCarthy. McCarthy sort of made headlines recently, popping up on Twitter using a blue-tick profile, but it turns out that Twitter wrongly assigned the verification symbol. (I'll admit I thought he was dead too, turns out he's just very old) This is the only novel by McCarthy that I've read, purely because I loved the film. I also enjoyed the film version of No Country For Old Men , so that may get added to my 'To Read' list, which always seems to be growing. I may seem a little full of it by kind of dumping on a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, but I'm going to dump a little anyway. The story was great, even better than the movie, but it was the writing style that drove me crazy. Lack of punctuation, no chapter definition, and most of all, no quotation marks. I would find myself half way through a sentence before realising that it was one of the ...

Yes you read that correctly, Rambo III was originally "dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan." It has since been updated to be dedicated to the people of Afghanistan, for obvious reasons. In the film, Rambo joins forces with the Mujahideen to rescue his former commander from the Soviet Army, though there is no mention of the overthrowing of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan's government. Though the film contains fictional characters, one must wonder if any of the rebel fighters were based on the young Saudi Arabian millionaire, prominent Mujahideen fighter, and founder of Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden. The film was released in 1988, the same year when the then 30 year old Bin Laden founded Al-Qaeda and became its leader, a direct result of US Support. The film is a must watch, not for entertainment value, but for the sheer propaganda values throughout. It was in the 1980s when Sylvester Stallone released his first Anti-Soviet propaganda fi...