Which Male Authors Flip Your Switch?

After running across an old 2010 blog titled "Hot (and talented authors" by one of my favorite book blog, Maggie Galehouse's Bookish, I just had to revisit this topic.So here's my list, in no particular order:Michael Connelly--he is definitely the strong, silent type!Harlen Coben -- btw, he just has a cool name, right?Stephen King--I know, I know. There is no accounting for taste ...William Goldman--any man that knows the 3 magic words is aces in...

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The Last Airbender (2010) - Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, Noah Ringer

Panned by the critics when it was released, I finally watched The Last Airbender this morning on my streaming Netflix account.The last M. Night Shyamalan movie, Netflix ranked it as the most popular movie of the day.I watched it. And it wasn't half-bad. In fact, it was better than bad. It was pretty good.A take-off of the popular children's animation series Avatar: The Last Airbender, the story is about a world where four countries are at war. Once held together by the peaceful reign of a single avatar that controlled the 4 elements--earth, wind,...

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The Help (2011) - Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spenser

The story of a young girl who returns to her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, she aspires to become a writer.While her friends titter around the bridge table, she begins to ask the town's maids to tell their stories.Civil riots are breaking out in Mississippi, one of the worst states in the country. The maids, afraid for their jobs, their families and their lives, decide to risk all to tell the town's secrets.The movie stars Easy A's Emma...

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