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Jumia Market: Sell & Buy

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Kaymu is becoming Jumia Market! Same service, richer experience, new brand! Welcome to the Jumia...

Zando Online Fashion Shopping - Shoes & Apparel

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**Winners of Best Mobile Shopping Experience & Best Overall Shopping Experience at the Tech &...

Ever Glorious: The Front Line Letters of the Crookenden Brothers, 1936 -46

John Greenacre

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The Crookenden brothers - Henry, Napier and Spencer - were born into a military dynasty. Their...

Mozambique

Philip Briggs

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This new seventh edition of Bradt's Mozambique remains the most established and only standalone...

Tripoli: A History

John Wright

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It has been called a "Noble Possession", abused as "A Nest of Corsairs" and extolled as "The Pearl...

Awix (3310 KP) rated The Passenger (Professione: reporter) (1975) in Movies

Apr 14, 2019 (Updated Apr 14, 2019)

Existential meditation on identity and purpose from Michelangelo Antonionioni. Jaded journalist (Nicholson) finds the man in the next hotel room has died and decides to switch identities with him and make a fresh start (they are in a remote part of Africa and he is a close lookalike, which makes this somewhat plausible). He soon discovers the man whose life he has stolen had secrets of his own, and finds himself hunted by people in search of both his identities.

A film about the desire to be reborn and also to destroy oneself. Or, possibly, just about Jack Nicholson having a somewhat premature mid-life crisis, walking out on his old life and acquiring a rather younger girlfriend (Schneider). Either way, Nicholson is on startlingly restrained and effective form (this was made back when he was a serious leading man), and there are some technically brilliant moments scattered throughout the film. It is always enjoyable to watch, even if it does seem sometimes that it is rather less profound and meaningful than the director thinks it is.

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Phil Leader (619 KP) rated Just in Books

Nov 18, 2019

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Jenny Morton Potts | 2018 | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

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This is a very difficult book to review, only because it covers a lot of ground. The story revolves around Scott Langbrook, a doctor who has volunteered with a charity to help refugees in North Africa. There he falls in love with his team leader but soon discovers that the world she inhabits is very different from his own.

The book delves deep into both their pasts as well as following their stories in the present day. As they get more desperate both their worlds start to unravel and there seems to be no way out.

Covering subjects involving terrorism and people trafficking this is a fairly grim read, and fairly slow at times too. The characters are written well and the plot does take the reader to unexpected places - both good and bad.

However for me the whole didn't quite equal the sum of its parts. Some of the storytelling seemed a little disjointed with jumping between different times without any clear idea of the sequence or timing of events. But that doesn't detract from an intriguing read