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Posts by Ryan Scott

Football: One Fan's Perspective

By Ryan Scott Jun 27, 2010 2:00 am

I love football. Such an admission is not so strange at this time of year nor given that it is the world's most popular ball game. What's strange is that it combines the two things I care least about ...

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Last Time is the Best Time - Pavement, Akropils Music Club, Prague, 20th May 2010

By Ryan Scott May 24, 2010 1:00 am

It'd been a while since this band had been on the road, and looking around the room, I guessed most of the audience saw them on the the last tour. What was less certain was if they'd seen the band in ...

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Expats

By Ryan Scott Apr 25, 2010 1:00 am

About a month ago, two friends and I saw a documentary called "Alive and Well in Prague." The film followed the lives of four expats, three men and a woman. As expats ourselves, we were a little ...

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Stick or Treat: Easter in the Czech Republic

By Ryan Scott Mar 28, 2010 1:30 am

Nothing prepared me for the Czech Easter tradition - even when I knew about it in advance.  While at university, I worked in a restaurant. One of my colleagues was Czech. During our shift one ...

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Book Review: Point Omega - Don Delillo

By Ryan Scott Mar 19, 2010 7:02 am

If we accept Harold Bloom's view, Don Delillo stands with Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and Thomas Pynchon as having produced a canonical work and being one of the leading American novelists of his ...

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Film Review - Protector

By Ryan Scott Feb 28, 2010 6:00 am

The Czech Republic's contender for Best Foreign Film is a dark and personal look at the country's occupation by Nazi Germany. Eschewing Hollywood's black and white approach, Protector delves into the ...

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An Antipodean Anti-Athlete's Take on the Winter Olympics

By Ryan Scott Feb 20, 2010 12:00 am

I'm probably the last person who should comment on the Winter Olympics. For a start I'm an Australian and Australia has a fairly poor record at the colder games. (This year being something of an ...

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Caught By The Catcher: A Brief Reflection On J.D Salinger

By Ryan Scott Jan 31, 2010 1:00 am

I'm not alone when I say that Salinger's work affected me in a profound way. Reading Catcher in the Rye set the course for my life. It wasn't just that it dealt with being young. There were plenty of ...

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Review - The Original of Laura

By Ryan Scott Dec 27, 2009 5:00 am

What was one of the most eagerly anticipated literary releases of the year, if not the decade, has been one of the most generally disappointing. The posthumous release of The Original of Laura, the ...

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Nabokov on Lolita

By Ryan Scott Dec 27, 2009 5:00 am

If The Original of Laura was not how Nabokov wanted to present himself, here is the chance to hear him in his own words. Note that even in conversation, the index cards were present.   ...

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