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Super Fans: Music's Most Dedicated: From Dead Heads to Little Monsters
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Big British Bikes of the 50s and 60s: Thunder on the Rocker Road
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Electric Guitars Design and Invention: The Groundbreaking Innovations That Shaped the Modern Instrument
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Electric guitars do not happen by chance. They look and sound and play the way they do by design....
Autumn (3 KP) rated The Time Traveler's Wife in Books
Jan 18, 2018
unlike some other books where the author spouts off obscure literature and poetry and uses unrealistic prose this was very believable. their conversations, their actions, their passions. clare and henry felt like old friends. really amazing.
there was one tiny thing that bothered me though. it was niffenegger's religious comments. they weren't realistic. maybe to someone who grew up in the 60s but not in a post-feminist world. some didn't even make sense.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Shape of Water (2017) in Movies
Feb 19, 2018 (Updated Feb 19, 2018)
Manages to work both as a 60s-set genre movie and more topical comment on issues of tolerance and diversity (just for a change). Quite charming and beautiful on the whole, though the strength of the sex and violence might be an issue for some people. The downtrodden-minorities-stick-it-to-The-Man subtext is a bit on the nose, perhaps, and I'm not sure the third act musical number really works, but on the whole this is a brilliant movie.
Awix (3310 KP) rated Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966) in Movies
Feb 12, 2018
A bit of a slow start, but atmospheric and effective, with some good sequences in the second half. Keir stands in for Peter Cushing with his usual authority and charisma. Christopher Lee isn't in it that much, but is good when he appears - there are differing explanations of just why he doesn't have any dialogue. Everybody's idea of what a Hammer horror movie should be like.