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Milleen (47 KP) rated Munich in Books

Nov 14, 2018 (Updated Nov 14, 2018)  
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Munich
Robert Harris | 2017
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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This outstanding novel covers Adolf HitlerÕs meeting with Neville Chamberlain in 1938. The grave shadow of Chamberlain, deeply opposed to another conflict only twenty years after the Great War that had killed a generation of men. Against Hitler, 'the madman' ready to 'smash the Czechs' and blaze through new territories. This meeting in Munich is the focal point of the novel and Harris rewrites real events using two bystanders, one German, one English. Based on fact, Harris skilfully interweaves the lives of Hugh Legat and his English wife, rich, beautiful and unfaithful. Paul Von Hartmann and his lover, a secretary in the German foreign ministry, someone he may not entirely trust. It's Harris' attention to detail that makes this version of history so credible, right down to the description of the swastikas on the taps. A tightly woven thriller mixed with historical fact that will appeal to a lot of readers.
  
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David McK (3425 KP) rated Isard's Revenge (Star Wars: X-Wing, #8) in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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Isard's Revenge (Star Wars: X-Wing, #8)
Michael A. Stackpole | 1999
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
If, by and large, books can be compared to food - the classics being haute cuisine; the terrible books being dog-food - then the X-Wing series of Star Wars books (all written pre-Episode One, and based on the popular LucasArts games) could probably be best described as fast food: enjoyable enough in small doses but you wouldn't want to live on them and not always that memorable.

With regard to this book, which picks up from the end of Timothy Zahn's "The Last Command" (with the ending of that novel shown from a different perspective), it's also more than half way through before the jacket blurb begins to make sense.
  
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Douglas Hart recommended Billy Liar (1963) in Movies (curated)

 
Billy Liar (1963)
Billy Liar (1963)
1963 | Comedy, Drama, Romance
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I came from a small town, with parents whose only wish for my future was a factory job, so this film, and the novel it was based on, felt close to home. My only desire was to somehow escape my surroundings, so when I first watched this movie in my early teens, I found the ending truly agonizing. Beautifully shot in black and white by Denys Coop, who also shot This Sporting Life for Lindsay Anderson that same year."

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