And one can’t help but think that after the fact, in what appears to be a predominantly white town setting, the three black kids in school would have been hauled in for questioning after they appeared on the video camera. Heck, even having a toy gun can be dangerous enough. Let’s just say that in no way would I want to be African American and be breaking into a museum. I grew up in a predominantly minority neighborhood, and believe me, plenty of things change. White gives them “melting pot mixers,” which randomly change their race temporarily. To disguise themselves while doing their little burglary stunts, Mrs. In this book, it comes up in this context. So yes, when he mentions race, it’s not natural to him. It’s almost as if he was a white Mormon kid who grew up in largely middle-class, white surroundings, went to BYU, and.oh, that actually looks a good bit like his biography. This struck me with Fablehaven as well, but not as much. I’ll start with the one thing I didn’t like.
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For example, the Notre Dame tour doesn't actually take you inside the cathedral itself. Yes they are walk tours, but much of the time you will spend standing in various places hearing offbeat stories, which are really interesting in themselves and tied to the history and charm of Paris, but just be aware you will not be covering that much ground and you don't get up close to places like the Eiffel Tower, Louvre, or many of the other places on the tourist map - it just isn't possible in a 90-120 minute period I guess. Perhaps based on the reviews our expectations were unreasonably high, and I would say the one thing that I was slightly disappointed by was that we didn't cover nearly as much ground as we expected to. We had Augustin for the Latin Quarter and Notre Dame tours (on the same day), and Camille for the Right Bank tour the following day on a very, very hot Paris afternoon, the day before Bastille Day. 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They’re all around, as though the village was dropped into the middle of a big fat cushion. Massive, looming bulges of land – mountains, I suppose – have stolen most of the sky. He got us some library books with pictures of fields and hedgerows with little houses dotted around. I straighten Ronnie’s tag and we join the back of the line.ĭad said we’d be able to see for miles and miles in the countryside. We’ve been through three stations today – from Paddington to Cardiff Central to here. I don’t know why it’s not as if it’s going back to London. I watch it pull away and my heart squeezes a bit. The guard blows his whistle and the train hoots back. And what I can see is clear and blue, not the never-ending rain clouds we were told we’d get in Wales. There isn’t as much sky as I thought there’d be. 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The answer to the mystery is somewhere in the world they created together. Now someone or something has murdered Fuller, and seem to be trying to pin the blame on Hall. They believe that their world is the real world of 1937, not just a simulation in a cluster of supercomputers at the thirteenth floor of some future skyscraper. Not merely a computer game, their simulation is a Small, Secluded World where the inhabitants don't know that they are simulated. It had been previously adapted on German television under the name World on a Wire ( Welt am Draht).įor years, Douglas Hall (Bierko) has been working with his friend and mentor, Hannon Fuller (Armin Mueller-Stahl), to create a simulated world. The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 science-fiction crime thriller starring Craig Bierko and Vincent D'Onofrio based on the 1964 novel Simulacron-3 (also known as Counterfeit World), by Daniel F. Some interesting moral questions about pragmatism and violence arise, and no easy answers are given. 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