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Clare Parrott (294 KP) rated Promised (One Night, #1) in Books
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Apr 20, 2017
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Grinch (194 KP) rated Band of Brothers - Season 1 in TV
May 15, 2017
The characters in this get you hooked - you can imagine being part of it!. (2 more)
Very well written.
Plenty of action as you follow the guys across France, defeating the Nazi regime.
Pretty compelling viewing. Set in World War 2, following the pursuits of 'Easy Company' during the D-Day landings.
Dean (6921 KP) rated Saving Private Ryan (1998) in Movies
Jul 16, 2017 (Updated Feb 17, 2018)
Tom Hanks (2 more)
Huge scale to the film
Intense realistic battle scenes
Amazing world War 2 drama
One of the best War films made, very powerful and intense at times. Probably the most realistic battle scenes to depict the D Day landings. A brilliant performance from Tom Hanks. Not for the faint of heart but a very emotive film showing Spielberg at his best.
Board Game News (72 KP) rated Tyrants of the Underdark in Tabletop Games
Sep 26, 2020
Mixes two different types of games (deckbuilding and area control) in a very streamlined way. (6 more)
The area control mechanics are very well put together.
The "Inner Circle" is a new taking on "trashing" cards.
Easy to grasp and teach.
Lots of different ways to score points.
Awesome theme, especially if you like fantasy and/or D&D.
Scales very well at 2, 3 or 4 players.
Overall a VERY solid game, and a very underrated one at that. One of the best games of 2016, if you ask us, which you should.
Ross (3282 KP) rated Dispel Illusion in Books
Jan 3, 2020
A consistent end to the trilogy
The D&D time-travel series comes to and end with this third book. Here the action is split between a timeline in the 90s following the first two books, with a future narrative of Nick's adult life in the 2000s and 2010s, and finishing up with a retelling of the events of the first book, from "future Nick's" PoV.
I still have issues with the science, multiverse and time-travel execution here as with the first books, but appreciate the way the story was woven together. Some of Lawrence's fantasy books have the different timeline feature and once again he expertly weaves them together so the overall story emerges at a good pace.
At one point, I thought the book was going to go down the Bill & Ted route as a cop-out ("in the future we will come back to this point and leave this key here and voila here it is") but this was actually quite well handled and wasn't the cop-out I feared.
The book benefits from a more stretched timeline as we see significant events from Nick's adult life, rather than dwelling on his teenage years solely. Likewise there is more of a focus on the D&D, which was somewhat lacking in book 2, and with key learnings from that featuring in the real world storyline.
Overall, I think I enjoyed this series, but I have my hang-ups about time-travel and multiverse theories in general. A good bit of escapism, if a little heavy on the pretend science at times.
I still have issues with the science, multiverse and time-travel execution here as with the first books, but appreciate the way the story was woven together. Some of Lawrence's fantasy books have the different timeline feature and once again he expertly weaves them together so the overall story emerges at a good pace.
At one point, I thought the book was going to go down the Bill & Ted route as a cop-out ("in the future we will come back to this point and leave this key here and voila here it is") but this was actually quite well handled and wasn't the cop-out I feared.
The book benefits from a more stretched timeline as we see significant events from Nick's adult life, rather than dwelling on his teenage years solely. Likewise there is more of a focus on the D&D, which was somewhat lacking in book 2, and with key learnings from that featuring in the real world storyline.
Overall, I think I enjoyed this series, but I have my hang-ups about time-travel and multiverse theories in general. A good bit of escapism, if a little heavy on the pretend science at times.