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Ari

Ari

has 153 followers and is following 139 people

"Old enough to know better. Young enough to do it anyway."

~ Caleb, Invincible - Sherrilyn Kenyon
  • Miami, FL, USA
  • member since August 17, 2009

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  • Chuck H

    Chuck H says

    Things have started nicely, thanks! Last week we were in Hollywood at the Kodak Theatre in watch and enjoy Cirque du Soleil "Iris," what an incredible show and performers! Yesterday afternoon we then visited the Ahmanson Theatre to watch "Fela!" A terrific musical about a Nigerian musician in Africa - Music and Dancing and Singing and Acting was one of a kind!

    posted 4 weeks ago. ( send a note )
  • Chuck H

    Chuck H says

    Merry Christmas Ari - Wishing you nothing but the best for the new year!

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    Hi Ari!

    I tried to send a message to you via Shelfari yesterday. But beginning Saturday I had been finding it IMPOSSIBLE to log onto their site, as I eplain in the message of yesterday which will follow this one. I wrote yesterday's message after thinking I finally suceeded in logging on. But when I clicked POST, the sight once again disappeared from view and the message never posted. I wound up calling Amazon late last night and complaining. Anyway, hope you are well. Here's the message from last night:

    WOW WOW WOW Ari! I can’t believe I actually succeeded in making it through to Shelfari! I tried signing in last night and either I would succeed in making it to my page, and then it would go back to the Shelfari sign-in (because I don’t use the Amazon one). Or I wouldn’t make it to my page at all. Instead the Shelfari sign-in page would just reappear! I was going to try for a few more minutes and if I didn’t succeed I was going to call Amazon customer service and complain. I like Amazon. I find them to be a very customer-friendly company. I’m probably going to call them anyway in the near future to complain about how the people now running Shelari are really screwing it up. I never used to have to sign in EVERY time, and there was only the Shelfari sign-in without Amazon. It’s like they’re trying to discourage use of the Shefari sign-in favor of the Amazon. But my Shelfari sign-in email is Yahoo, and my Amazon account is with my Verizon email. If I sign onto Shelfari using my Amazon account email I will get all of my Shelfari notes and updates on my Verizon email page which I don’t want. I complained to Shelfari about this once, but it didn’t sway them from continuing to run Shelfari like a bunch of bloody imbeciles!

    If you want to see a great movie that will never bore you regardless of how many times you see it (I know of several such films), I saw THE CORE once again Saturday. I’ve been following a sci-fi list I created of all my sci-fi movies and watching them on Saturdays, and history (beginning with westerns) on Sundays. Anyway, THE CORE stars Hillary Swank and I recommend it VERY highly. There is not a weak frame in the entire film from beginning to end.

    Tech problems! The HYPERSPACE website expired and the publisher never informed me! Not only that, but the server (run by a company called FILEBY) seems to be in a state of collapse. So the guy at the publisher who handles these things told me that they are guiding authors to purchase their own domains from the firm that dispenses them. I have to get that url back because I have 2,000+ business cards on which it is printed, and 1,000 flyers! The blogsite is still operational, though. That’s more important.

    After contacting countless literary agents for my other completed novel (which you would probably enjoy, taking place in ancient Rome as it does), an agency finally asked to see the first 50 pages of the work. It’s pathetic! The letter I send agents should gain such a response more than 50% of the time I send it out.

    I have an idea for your work possibilities. Did you ever think of being an independent graphic artist and advertising your talent online and maybe even offline? Build up a clientele! Wouldn’t that be better than getting a job in which you will have to work for someone who will probably be intellectually inferior to you and probably not a great person to work for? What do you think of that idea?

    Take care and be well.

    Stan

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    Hi Ari!

    Yeah ( . . . just like a Brooklynite: YEAH) . . . that happened to me yesterday when I signed into Shelfari. You know, the people that run Shelfari have never learned that "if it ain't broke, don’t fix it." Before they changed Shelfari months ago, I considered it the best run social networking site. Now it’s very cumbersome just to sign in. You never used to have to sign in! Also, they should have just kept Friends, instead of creating Followers and Followed. The simpler the better!

    DR. ZHIVAGO is one of those movies that’s on a pinnacle: i.e., no movie better, but others are on the same level. I recommend it very highly. And the music score is one of the BEST ever written! You will recognize it when you hear it, I think. (Maurice Jarre is the composer . . . he did LAWRENCE OF ARABIA also.)

    Did you ever see the movie DONNIE DARKO? It did not do well at the box office, but it later became very popular. It is an EXTREMELY well made movie and the story is very unique.

    Good luck with the job hunt.

    Stan

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • *Lena*

    *Lena* says

    Glad to hear it. I bought it ages ago but have put it off. Im still trying to get caught up in all the series I have started. This has turned out to be quite the task.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    Hi Ari!

    Hope all is well. Hope you have a successful job hunt . . . I don’t have to tell you that the job market is awful. What was your major? What kind of job are you looking for?

    Things here are much the same. I have a tech problem with Internet Explorer which prohibits people accessing my book's website (though the blogsite is accessible), so I can’t market my book via mail right now. But I'm still working it on the internet. And I'm searching for a literary agent for my unpublished novel (S P Q R). Plus I'm working on a third novel. So I'm busy.

    Watching any movies? Just saw DR. ZHIVAGO Sunday. Part of my traveling through history series, beginning with the old west and working my way up to WW II and beyond.

    Take care of yourself and drop a line when you have a chance.

    Stan

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • *Lena*

    *Lena* says

    Love the new avatar! Let me know what you think of Kiss of Midnight :)

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Chuck H

    Chuck H says

    Good hearing from you! Been quite busy myself . . . and still reading as much as I can. Still working part-time at the local high school and volunteering at several schools as well. Painting with watercolors as much as I can, hiking, and there's just not enough time to do everything that I want to. And you?

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Chuck H

    Chuck H says

    Haven't seen any books posting lately, all is going well? Love the quote!

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    Well, that seems to be an angel with great muscle definition. When Tarzan rescues Jane, or others, men and women, he's like a guardian angel. However, when he fights he is another beast in the jungle.

    Of which book have you not heard? I guess Asimov's books. Everyone has heard of Tarzan. Have you ever read the Tarzan books, or anything of Edgar Rice Burroughs? I can tell you this: once you begin reading a Tarzan book you have a serious problem stopping! Burroughs’ books are like drugs! He has been a great influence on my own writing. As for Isaac Asimov, he and Arthur C. Clarke are probably to two best known writers in sci-fi history. Certainly among the best! Do you like reading sci-fi?

    Sorry about you not reading much now. Hope you get back to it soon. Are you busy with school?

    Stan

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    P.S. That picture you have now does look like Tarzan and Jane! Am I correct?

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    Hi Ari!

    I would love to hear what you think of CLASH I (with Olivier as Zeus). If you ever see it please let me know of your comarison with CLASH II.

    Right now I am reading TARZAN THE UNTAMED! Number 7 in the series. (I'm doing some relaxing reading for a change.) When I'm finshed I'll read a little more Gibbon (Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) and then I plan to read Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION series in order to do some more relaxing! I read the trilogy decades ago, and now I have discovered that Asimov had written a prequel to the first book and two sequels subsequent to the last book. I will read them all.

    How's everything else?

    Stan

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    P.S.

    Did you ever see CLASH OF THE TITANS?????

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Stanley I. B

    Stanley I. B says

    Hi Ari!

    If you are not already a member, you are invited to go to the Facebook Fan Club for my novel HYPERSPACE. Click or copy and paste in the address bar http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#!/pages/Hyperspace/137550308832
    and Like HYPERSPACE! Or to find it, enter HYPERSPACE in the Facebook search bar. It will be the top-most item to appear: the blue book cover. HYPERSPACE is the MOST IMPORTANT novel written in the 20th and 21st centuries because it SHOWS in great pictorial detail what CRIMES are committed against the individual AT BIRTH, how these CRIMES against the individual TWIST personality, and what the severe ramifications are later in the individual’s life. Because mistreatment of people AT BIRTH is widespread, Planet Earth has been and is a place or erratic behavior in the smallest ways (widespread neurosis throughout the population, often approaching and attaining psychosis resulting in suicide); and in the largest ways (psychopathy interspersed throughout the world population all too often expressing itself in the crimes of mass murder, rape, precipitation of war, suicide bombings by religious fanatics who “know” they will go to “heaven,” if they murder “infidels.” Explicit sexuality is present in various parts of this novel. If you feel uncomfortable reading such text, skip over it but remember that it is there, because sexuality is integral to the individual’s psychophysiology and is an essential component to brain trauma release. If you want to see the brain-transformation process in action in the life of one individual from birth onward and thus learn why it is that Planet Earth is a Lunatic Asylum, you are encouraged to procure a copy of HYPERSPACE, the price of which is minimal. Go to the Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or AuthorHouse links at http://www.hyperspacebook.wordpress.com

    Stan

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Jonetta (Ejaygirl)

    Jonetta (Ejaygirl) says

    We've started a new group for the Virgin River series. Come join us!

    http://www.shelfari.com/groups/88301/about

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Chuck H

    Chuck H says

    And half back is fine with me!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Chuck H

    Chuck H says

    Finished "Across the Universe" this afternoon - Book was "Just OK," was certainly written as a YA Sci-Fi. I gave it 3 (too generous!) out of 5 stars!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Patty F

    Patty F says

    I never understood folks who weren't willing to try a new type of book or a new author. I will be checking your shelves for new books since you read so widely.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Patty F

    Patty F says

    You asked about Susan Elizabeth Phiilips' novel, Kiss an Angel. I tried to reply, but had computer problems. Here is the note I wrote:

    This is not my favorite book by Phillips, but since I find her to be smart, humorous and a great writer this is not a major fault. I looked at your page and you seem to like romance and be open to lots of types of books. I think you should try this. If you want to start her wonderful series about the Chicago Stars (a football team) make sure you read It Had to be You. It is wonderful. Hope you enjoy Ms Phillips.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • *Lena*

    *Lena* says

    LoL. It's OK it's not for everyone. I have them all. I just ordered the new one. I love Anita's character. Just the stories in the last couple of books fell short for me.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )

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