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Neolibrarium, a site which specializes in Books, Book Reviews, and pretty much anything having to do with literary works, is in the early stages of a daunting mission: to publish 40 posts (mostly book reviews) over the span of 40 days.
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Have you ever wondered how the TV Show “Legend of the Seeker” compares to the book on which it’s based, Terry Goodkind’s “Wizard’s First Rule”? Well, wonder no more! Here you can find a very good comparison of the TV show and the best-selling book!
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____________________“Legend of the Seeker was even more loosely based on Wizard’s First Rule than the Eragon movie was based on Paolini’s book.”
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Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, 65
Founder, Access International Advisors
Date of Death: Dec. 23
Workers discovered the body of Mr. de La Villehuchet in his firm’s New York office. Mr. de La Villehuchet’s firm oversaw a fund with assets invested by Bernard L. Madoff, according to a person familiar with the situation. An attorney for the firm told detectives that Mr. de La Villehuchet’s firm had lost $1.5 billion in the Madoff scandal.
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Alex Widmer, 52
Chief Executive, Bank Julius Baer
Date of Death: Dec. 3
Overseeing the private bank, Mr. Widmer turned the Zurich firm into a leading bank for wealthy clients. Julius Baer officials said Mr. Widmer’s death wasn’t linked to problems at the bank.
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Chief Operating Officer, Olivant Ltd.
Date of Death: Sept. 25
In late September, Mr. Stephenson drove to a rail station about 30 miles from his London home and stepped onto the tracks as an express train approached. Mr. Stephenson co-founded the investment firm in 2006. Olivant began accumulating a 2.8% stake in UBS and leading a revolt to turn around the Swiss banking giant. The UBS shares were put in a Lehman Brothers Holdings account with a proviso that allowed Lehman to use the assets as collateral. With Lehman in bankruptcy Olivant may never recover the assets.
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Adolf Merckle, 74
Date of Death: Jan. 5
Adolf Merckle, one of Germany’s wealthiest men, committed suicide after his family business empire began unraveling amid mounting debt, his family said Tuesday. Mr. Merckle’s body was discovered Monday night near train tracks outside the southern German city of Ulm in what local police described Tuesday as a “railway accident.” There are no signs that anyone else was to blame, they added in a statement.
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Chief Executive, Sheldon Good & Co.
Date of Death: Jan. 6
Real-estate executive Steven L. Good was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound Monday in his Jaguar in a forest preserve outside Chicago, said the Kane County Sheriff’s Department. A maintenance worker discovered the body of Steven L. Good, 52, of Highland Park, Monday morning behind the wheel of his Jaguar parked in a lot at the Max McGraw Wildlife Preserve in East Dundee.
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Sonja Kohn
President, Bank Medici
Current Status: In hiding.
With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe. Now she has even fewer. Mrs. Kohn has dropped out of sight, leaving the firm she founded, Bank Medici, in the hands of Austrian regulators, who took it over last week. A theory widely repeated by those who know Mrs. Kohn is that she may be afraid of some particularly displeased investors: Russian oligarchs whose money made up a chunk of the $2.1 billion that Bank Medici invested with Mr. Madoff.
“With Russian oligarchs as clients,†said a Viennese banker who knew Mrs. Kohn and her husband socially, “she might have reason to be afraid.â€
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Read a recently posted review of Ender’s Game at NeoLibrarium.com
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Jan
As of this writing, it’s about one week until the release of the 7th and Final (?) book of the Harry Potter Series. Here are my decidedly unscientific and un-researched predictions for Book 7:
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Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix is great, fun, escapist movie. Book purists might not like it, but it would have been impossible to cram the longest book in the Harry Potter series into what is the shortest of the Harry Potter movies so far (137 minutes).
Gone are any quidditch scenes (sorry, King Weasly fans), and much of the background of Luna Lovegood’s father and what he does is lost. Mrs. Weasley’s boggart also disappears, and, surprisingly, so does the locket in the Black household. The ghosts from Hogwarts are also absent (most noticeable by his absense is Peeves), but Kreacher does make an appearance.
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Jan
Quick review:
Overpriced and bland.
For those of you wanting more detail, here it is. The restaurant location is nice, in Addison Circle, though it gives off the vibe of pretending to be more than it is. The restaurant itself is located in a corner of a rotunda surrounding blue structure that perfectly showcases modern art.
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