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Ferris' first book, Then We Came to the End, published in 2007, was a knockout - a comic novel set in an office and told in the first person plural by a watercooler Greek chorus. That device was either a lucky stunt or a carefully calibrated masterstroke. Either way, a sophomore slump wouldn't have been surprising. Even Zadie Smith had The Autograph Man. But Ferris - who's a year older than Smith and approximately as good-looking - has gone the other...
Like his first book, The Unnamed requires that you buy into its premise up front. If your reaction is "Gimme a break," get out now, because Ferris is not going to give you a break. The walking thing isn't played for laughs. (See the top 10 nonfiction books...
...Ferris isn't actually interested in Tim's disorder as such. This isn't a book about neurology. Ferris is interested in the blast radius around the sickness, the damage it does to Tim and his family. The longer it resists a cure or even a diagnosis, the more dense the walking becomes with multiple meanings, until it's a pulsating black hole at the center of the novel. It could stand for depression, mania, lust, rage, any alien element that lives within a marriage and tries to tear it apart. It could stand for the author's compulsion...
Washington, 55, is some kind of deity - a man of God if not the Lord himself - in The Book of Eli, the grand and grimy post-apocalyptic western from the twin auteurs Allen and Albert Hughes. They must have recognized an anomaly in Washington's quarter-century star career: that, like Tom Hanks but not many others, he's been a major movie male without anchoring an action franchise. (He hasn't even made a sequel, though there may soon be one to Inside Man.) A two-time Oscar winner - Best Actor for Training Day, Best Supporting Actor for Glory...
...outside to die, and it was. Marauding punks prey on solitary travelers for water, food and clothing. With all industrial and agricultural sectors in shambles, the fear-market system applies: survival of the meanest. Or, in Eli's case, the purest. He's a good man with a Good Book - a rare extant copy of the Bible, whose possession he will defend with his life. (See the top 10 movies...