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The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)

7.4 (9 Ratings) Rate It

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The true story of man-eating lions in Tsavo, East Africa in 1896. Col. J.H. Patterson was there to...

True story John Henry Patterson Tsavo man-eating lions

Yannis Philippakis recommended Sounds of Soweto by Various Artists in Music (curated)

"A compilation from South Africa in the 80s of Soweto sound at the time. My mum's from SA and she had it on double cassette and would play it in the car as she drove me to school. It's full of unashamed joy and has a kind of cheesiness to it that I love. There's an innocence to the songs, which is interesting because you can sense the strange American influence in SA music at the time - which is similarly mirroring some current musical trends from abroad. You can hear Prince, a bit of Michael Jackson and American pop, but retranslated through musicians and equipment that they had access to at the time. It's a killer compilation."

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Helen McCrory recommended Therese Raquin in Books (curated)

Therese Raquin

Emile Zola, Helen Edmundson | 2014 | Film & TV

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"I left Africa and childish things, and went to live in Paris, where Thérèse Raquin kept me on the straight and narrow. Read at an impressionable age, it’s a very important moral life lesson about guilt and consequences—without ever having to stick your finger into the pit of hell itself. At the time I was going to the American Library, and looking at the handsome boys who didn’t know I existed because I was a little chubby teenager. The descriptions of Therese sitting there with Laurent, playing dominoes in their house above the shop, and that burning desire for somebody rang very true for a little plump 14-year-old on the banks of the Seine."

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Cori June (3033 KP) rated The Blue Sword (Damar, #1) in Books

Sep 19, 2019

The Blue Sword (Damar, #1)

Robin McKinley | 1987 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

9.3

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The chapter with Luthe and Harry (0 more)

A fast read. Set in the desert there are illusions to Colonization, the main Character Harry, she prefers her nickname to her actual name, is from a place called Home (yes original I know) which resembles if not England than America. She goes to Damar (MiddleEast/ North Africa) to be with her brother after their father dies. and although they never say her age I'd place her closer to 15 than 20. Harry is that awkward wild child that grows into her own. She is a strong female character that is humble and while out of her depth still tries to maintain a type of dignity.