I bought this book at church. Because that's where you're supposed to buy books with Devil in the title. Especially books that deal with real life serial killers.

Plot: First off the White City isn't a racist city where only white people can live. That kinda threw me at first. The White City is a reference to the World Fair that Chicago hosted in the late 1800s. This book is about the guy who designed the world fair and a serial killer who worked the area around the fair. It starts with Chicago winning the bid to host the fair and ends with the serial killer getting caught. In between we find out really cool stuff like where Midway comes from, the origins of the Ferris Wheel, how the Pledge of Allegiance came to be, and how to kill people and dispose of the evidence so you don't get caught. We also learned that Chicago is better than Paris.

What I thought: First I thought this book was a fiction novel about a devil. The first page cured me of that. So i was a little disappointed. Then I learned the book was about the World's Fair. I became greatly disappointed. Yet I persevered and finished it.

All it all, it was an enhhh book. There wasn't a unified plot, it was the development of two separate people.

Should you read it? Nah. You shouldn't have to read a book to know that Chicago is better than Paris.

Last week Olga and I skipped out of work to spend some quality time with the little people. We decided to go see a movie, because that's the best type of quality family time there is. Before going, we took a vote on which movie we would see. The kids had already seen this, and wanted to see other movies. So we took their votes away and did a recount.

Plot: There is a moon somewhere that contains a really valuable type of rock. So the earthlings move in and start strip mining the moon. There's this one place on the moon that has an incredible amount of this rock. But of course there are some blue humanoids living there. And they don't want to move. That's when the company's mercenaries get involved.

There are also some scientists who do science stuff. But if I wanted to watch science I would have gone to work. Luckily the science people in the movie are doing pretty interesting science, so it was ok.

What I thought: The visuals were insane! It was magic the way some of the scenes were presented and the ability to draw you into the moon's environment. The night sense were wonderful. They also went back and forth from real film to animation. It worked really well.

What I thought about the plot: Enh. Typical Disney/Hollywood stuff. The scientists are good. The military is bad. The Indians aliens are peace loving hippies who are good by definition. The plot pulls at your emotions, but doesn't really offer anything intellectual. My biggest beef is that they use the whole 'nature is good' line. I noticed there weren't any crippled, sick, or mentally ill aliens. I think they got eaten, because in reality, nature isn't good. Nature is hungry.

3D? Actually 4D if you count time as a dimension. But that's not marketable just yet. I'm not really a big fan of 3D stuff in general, but it looks like they're starting to get this right. Not perfect, but as my dad said, "It doesn't get in the way of the movie."

Should you see it? Yes, and pay the extra couple of buck for 3D. It was fun having stuff pop out at you, plus you're supporting R&D for something that could be really cool once they get it figured out. It's like ethics in that sense.