Friday by Robert A. Heinlein (4/10)

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Even as an audio book, this was a chore to get through. It’s a tale of a future with super human artificial persons (the titular Friday), violent city states, and corporatized family structures. Oh, and lots of cringey sex talk. I suspect Heinlein was a swinger who wanted moral justifications for whatever dark seeded perversions he held. Unfortunately, he writes like a seventh grader and also has a seventh-grade boy’s understanding of women. So dumb.

The Lady Hermit (9/10)

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Cheng Pei Pei is great in the excellent sword fighting movie about a master in hiding who takes on a young apprentice with the hope that she’ll help defeat her arch enemy. It’s beautifully shot and has a nice love triangle sub-plot to appease girly Crouching Tiger fans. The martial arts are not the greatest ever filmed, but it more than makes up for it in gore and crazy miniature effects. Temple of Doom owes much to this movie’s rope bridge scene.