choke

I just finished reading the novel 'Choke' by Chuck Palahniuk, he's the guy that wrote the book fight club.
I liked the book so I give it five out of five stars.

This is an interesting website that looks like it was set up by the book publisher for this book.

http://www.randomhouse.com/features/palahniuk/index2.html

This website gives some background and a short summary of the book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choke_(novel)

the departed

On Monday I watched the movie 'the departed'.
I really liked it.
It was about the state police in the boston area working on a case to take down the Irish mob in boston.
The police get Leonardo di Caprio's character to infiltrate the Irish mob but at the same time the Irish mob have Matt Daemon's character infiltrating the police.
Also, near the end of the movie we find out that the police had one more person on the inside with the mob and also the mob had another police officer working for them.
Most of the main characters including di Caprio and Daemon end up waking up dead near the end of the movie.
I would suggest that you rent it.
I rented it from netflix and on tomorrow or friday I should receive the second dvd of the movie so I will rate this movie later on this week.
I'm assuming that the second dvd has a bunch of extras and maybe even a second version of the movie so I am looking forward to seeing the second dvd.
This is a link that is related to the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed
The last name of the irish mob boss is Costello which to me would indicate that he is probably Italian, but in this movie there is bad blood between the Italians and the Irish, and the Irish mob boss (who is played by Jack Nicholson) has no trouble showing his dislike for the Italians.
4-2-2009
I just finished watching the second dvd of the movie 'the departed' and I am giving the set four and a half stars out of five.
The second dvd basically had almost two hours of extras in it but a majority of those two hours was actually a film or movie with the director, Martin Scorcese, talking about and showing clips of all of his movies up to that point.
The rest of the extras involved stuff related to the movie and they were entertaining, I liked them.
But the film with scorcese talking about his previous films, it was called scorceses on scorcese, wasn't really related to the movie the departed...I would of rather of seen some enterviews with the cast about their experience on the movie.
Don't get me wrong, the part scorcese on scorcese was entertaining but I did feel that it was too long and at times boring (and I think I also found his personality to be at least a little annoying), but it just didn't belong on this dvd and I think I've viewed it before when it was attached to another movie or something and I think it was released a couple of years ago as a stand alone dvd.
So I would of given the dvd's of the movie 'the departed' a full five stars but the extra 'scorcese on scorcese' was too long and it didn't belong on this dvd because it doesn't fit with the movie, and I think it was released a couple of years ago as a stand alone dvd.