Norbert Haupt
Books, Movies, Art, Paintings and General Musings
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Book Review: Brave New World – by Aldus Huxley
Seemingly every book list of great books has Brave New World on it. The Random House Board’s list here shows it on slot #5. Since I just reviewed that list, I thought I’d give it another chance. I don’t remember how many times in my life I have tried to read this book. This time…
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Book Review: A Painted House – by John Grisham
I read A Painted House decades ago and I recalled that it was the only book by Grisham that was not a legal thriller. There isn’t a lawyer anywhere in the story. I remembered enjoying the book and decided to read it again. The story plays in the late summer and fall of 1952 on ……
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Movie Review: You Can See Everything (2026)
Before I review this movie, I need to give a synopsis of who Elizabeth Holmes is – in case you didn’t know. She is the founder of Theranos, a Silicon Valley medical technology company that promised to revolutionize blood testing. Her story is one of the most notorious corporate…
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Movie Review: Digger (2026)
The most powerful man in the world is not the president of the United States, it’s his handler, the richest man in the world. It is Digger, a Texas oil man who is totally obsessed with his power, his mission, his money and nothing can stop him, not even the impending doom of…
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Movie Review: Somewhere in Time (1980)
Somewhere in Time is one of my all-time favorite movies, and it was from the beginning when it first came out in 1980. It’s a time travel movie. Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is a playwright in Chicago in the 1970ies. He gets a mystery visit from an old woman who puts a…
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Book Review: The Postman Always Rings Twice – by James M. Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice starts with the now famous sentence: “They threw me off the haytruck about noon…” It’s the early 1930ies. Frank Chambers is a 24-year-old drifter who comes north from Mexico and ends up in Glendale, California, just east of Los Angeles. He stops at…
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Book Review: Prodigal Summer – by Barbara Kingsolver
In Zebulon County in southern Appalachia (a fictional location) is near the border of Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Deanna is a reclusive park ranger in her late forties who lives in a log cabin on the mountain. Her job is to maintain order, including fixing trails,…
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Book Review: Whistler – by Ann Patchett
Daphne and her sister Lela are in their early fifties and live in New York City. They are both happy in their careers, successful, and married to loving husbands. Their mother, Abigail was married to their father, Buddy, when they had the two girls. Buddy was a fisherman, in…
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It’s a Free Country, Right?
I could buy myself fatigues, boots, a bullet-proof vest, a gun and a club. I could put on a vest over it with big white letters spelling out POLICE or ICE. It does not really have to look like a uniform. Just thuggish. I could then drive an unmarked white van and remove the…
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Kansas State Capitol
I visited the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka yesterday. It was too late in the day to go in. I heard it was recently renovated and it was beautiful. I have to schedule another time to come back for a proper tour of the inside. Above is a shot of the building from the west ……
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Taking Out Los Angeles and San Diego
The White House has stated that Trump’s comments about Iran “taking out Los Angeles and San Diego” were taken out of context. Here is his exact quote, with context: I want to see a tremendous victory. You want to see a tremendous victory because it verifies all the things we…