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I suck. For years I thought that the entire Star Wars franchise was lame and stupid. I saw Episode III and liked it, but I wasn't over the moon about it. I had no idea what I was missing. I recently went through and watched every Star Wars film from start to finish, from the original all the way through baby Anakin and the emergence of Darth Vader. Amazing. While the original movie was great, it was really The Empire Strikes Back that really surprised me. It was great from start to finish. I found that there was no lameness, no nerdy stupidness to ruin my experience. The acting was great, the effects we great, and I even. Ended the stuff that was obviously added by George Lucas at a later time. Let me take a second to discuss this. I understand that fans (the rabid ones at least) were really pissed that Lucas went back through his films and not only enchanced the effects, but added some crappy cgi... Which was great at the time but not so great in 2012. For me, I liked the cha...

Okay, so everyone (including Elvis Duran in the morning) was talking about the book Fifty Shades of Grey , and I was only mildly interested. Then, it was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly , and they were saying it is the most popular ebook of, like, all time. Who can pass that up? Because I know it was basically a porn novel disguised as erotica, I refused to pay for it... So I downloaded. I am about a quarter of the way through the second book in the trilogy and damn if it isn't a fun read. The author used to write twilight fan fiction, which is nerdy and lame, but it got her a book deal. She writes like Stephanie Meyer in that sort of annoying and not particularly talented way, but also in that same way that actually makes you care about werewolves and vampires that sparkle. This trilogy is the same way. I have no interest in erotica, mostly because they use stupid synonyms for penis and vagina, but I am compelled to read the next kindle page, the next chapter. The characte...