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Kevin Phillipson (10011 KP) rated Another Round (2020) in Movies

Jul 15, 2021  
Another Round (2020)
Another Round (2020)
2020 | Comedy, Drama
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7.5 (4 Ratings)
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It's unusual for me to watch a movie with subtitles at the cinema but this is a rare time. Anyway for a movie that deals with alcoholism and the effects on four teachers is excellent with standout performance from mads mikkelsen speaking in Danish which didn't bother me and for once not playing the villain which he seems to do alot of. Overall good movie worthy of its Oscar win this year
  
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Bruce Wagner recommended The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac in Books (curated)

 
The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac
Joyce Johnson | 2013 | Biography, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
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"I was shocked at the truths and magnificence of this biography; I didn’t think she (or anyone) had it in her. Throw all the Beats away: only the misunderstood colossus - Kerouac – remains. Who’s really read him, anyway? It’s all about that buffoon Cassady, and idiotic fanboy quotes… “the only ones for me are the mad ones” – yuck. Read the above for the real Weegee/Whitman ecstatic-horrific experience of genius, alcoholism, fame and the merciful, merciless Spirit that rules us."

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John Berendt recommended Collected Stories in Books (curated)

 
Collected Stories
Collected Stories
Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams | 2012 | Fiction & Poetry
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"Tennessee Williams’s short stories are eclipsed by his plays, but they are by no means outclassed. His ear for dialogue, his eye for character and his dramatic gifts are as powerful in his stories as they are in his plays. Like the plays, the stories are flavored with a connoisseur’s taste for the strange and bizarre, including cannibalism, incest, rape, castration, nymphomania, alcoholism and murder. My favorite among the stories is the fiendish “Desire and the Black Masseur,” but there are many, many runners-up."

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ClareR (5667 KP) rated Dubliners in Books

Oct 28, 2019 (Updated Sep 8, 2020)  
Dubliners
Dubliners
James Joyce, Terence Brown | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.5 (4 Ratings)
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I was sure I’d read Dubliners before - possibly during my English Literature A Level, but I couldn’t remember what the stories were about. They really give the reader a feel of what life must have been like at the turn of the last century in Ireland. They’re not all ‘pretty’ stories either. We see alcoholism (or at least heavy drinking that impacts life and family), poverty, suicide, missed opportunities and hard decisions. So, normal life for a lot of people.
I now wonder if I should go back and reread one of his novels?
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for serialising this book.