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Billion-Dollar Brain

Len Deighton

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The classic spy thriller of lethal computer-age intrigue and a maniac's private cold war, featuring...

David McK (3425 KP) rated The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) in Movies

Jan 27, 2023

2008 re-make/re-imagining of the 1951 original, with Keanu Reeves - who I felt would be perfect for this role - playing the alien Kla'atu.

Unfortunately, the majority of the film is slow and plodding, with no real connection between Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, with a (very young) Jaden Smith playing a kid who just deserves a good slapping, and with the anti-war stance of the original replaced with an environmental message instead (that's neither good nor bad, just an observation).

One that I may watch on TV if nothing else on, but not one I would be going out of my way to look for or even make time to sit down and view.

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The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon and Constance Farrington

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Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the...

Invasion 14: A Novel

Maxence van der Meersch

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Based on personal experience, survivor testimony, and documentary research, Invasion 14 portrays the...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Autumn in Books

Jan 10, 2018

Autumn

Ali Smith | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

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Unusual story yet beautiful prose

Ali Smith has a wonderful way with words, describing a relationship between a young girl and her eccentric older neighbour, which seems to mirror the title of this book. Autumn shows the blossoming and withering of a man, Daniel Gluck, describing his younger years as a respected art critic of sorts, and the beauty he was constantly surrounded by. When he meets the younger Elisabeth Demand, he is already in the process of change, but she continues to help him feel alive, while he has a mentor-like relationship with her.

In between, Smith describes all of the major events plaguing Britain. From protesting the Iraq war, to Brexit doom, the perpetual markers that appear in the background of this constant, unwaning friendship. Can love and art really triumph over war? Smith believes it can.

The main issue with this novel is the fact that it is completely disjointed, and ends on a quite anti-climactic note. Read for the tone and not the story.