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Rocky (1976)
Rocky (1976)
1976 | Drama, Romance, Sport
The Action (1 more)
Cinematography
Still holds up, Still amazing, still taking punches and never giving up....
This movie is amazing for what it is.... a boxing film about an underdog... it's so masterfully done. There is nothing i can say that hasn't already been said... there is a statue of him in philadelphia and he's FICTIONAL.... I don't think that has ever been done before....

here's some amazing alternate movie posters as well.
  
Emerged (The Life of Anna #5)
Emerged (The Life of Anna #5)
Marissa Honeycutt | 2015 | Erotica, Romance
10
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
WOW is all I can say.. what a perfect ending to a seriously evil, beautiful, heart wrenching, loving, torturous book!? This series will make you feel everything.. from rage to love. I couldn't get enough and as hard as the last four books were to read, this one made it all worth it. LOVED this series- and HIGHLY recommend it to anyone who loves a dark, dark read! Im still just blown away... incredible!
  
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Dominic Monaghan recommended Kes (1969) in Movies (curated)

 
Kes  (1969)
Kes (1969)
1969 | Drama

"What can I say about this movie? One of the more influential films of my childhood, it is a heartbreaking and hilarious tale of a poor young schoolboy who poaches a kestrel as a pet. He has nothing in his life apart from the relationship with his bird. The realism may be the best I’ve witnessed. The lead performance is perfect on every note. I dream of being in a movie this good."

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Chocolat (Chocolat #1)
Chocolat (Chocolat #1)
Joanne Harris | 1999 | Fiction & Poetry
I loved the movie of this book. Of course, there is always a danger when reading a book before you see the movie that the movie will be a disappointment. And sometimes the opposite is also true. In this case, I have to say that for me, the latter was what happened in my case. You can read why in my review here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2013/11/11/tasty-but-not-scrumptious/
  
How to Walk Away
How to Walk Away
Katherine Center | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.6 (9 Ratings)
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story (2 more)
realness
genuine
I wanted more! (0 more)
I Couldn't Put It Down
Let me just start by saying I received an advanced copy of this book thru #shespeaks. I thought it was going to be an average romantic plotted read. It was so much more for me. This book hit home with the realness and struggle a person goes thru after a life changing accident. In 1984 my other was crushed in a car accident, while she was pregnant with my little brother. Her best friend died. They told my mother she would never walk again. She struggled and fought and struggled some more. This book didn't sugar coat how difficult something like this can be. I appreciated this book much more than I can ever say. You can literally go from having everything...and nothing in literally one moment. Building yourself back up is the true victory after something like that happens.
  
The Road (La Strada) (1954)
The Road (La Strada) (1954)
1954 | International, Classics, Drama
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Movie Favorite

"I don’t want to say much about La strada other than that it’s the reason why I am here. When you watch this movie, no matter who you are, you get the sense that this is something special that couldn’t have been made for television or heard as a radio play. It’s not Alain Resnais, it’s very accessible, and yet it has cinematic purity. This is a mark of how depressing the movie business has gotten—we don’t make these kinds of movies anymore, movies where there’s just a natural consensus that they’re good. Where you don’t have to wait for critics to say so, because everybody can feel it."

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Twined Bond (Holly Woods Files, #7)
Emma Hart | 2016
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
omg what can I say, you will definitely need the tissues at the ready with this book. This is the last book in the series and what an emotional read it is. I just couldn't put the book down till id got to the end, which was bitter sweet, in one way I need to get the read to see what happened and in the other I didn't want to end. A perfect ending to a perfect series. I cant wait for more from this author in the future.

Highly recommended
I voluntarily reviewed an advance reader copy of this book

https://obsessedbookreviews.wordpress.com/emma-hart/
  
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis | 2009 | Children
9
8.2 (60 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Characters (1 more)
The story
A revisit from my childhood
I haven't read this book since a child, and I can safely say that I think I may have even enjoyed it more the second time around.

An easy to read but enchanting story about another world, lovable characters, and a very compelling read.


I would definitely recommend this to any child, and to any adult who read it as a child and even those who didn't. Whether or not this is your normal style of book, I think that this is a book that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime 😊
  
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
8.0 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
So it goes...
Like most Vonnegut books you either love Slaughterhouse-Five or simply hate it, I can admit Vonnegut really isn't for everyone but for me his books are hilarious and leave me thinking about them more days after I finish them.

I found Slaughterhouse-Five at the perfect time in my life where I could really appreciate it. I had lost my grandpa not long before and this book really just help me accept it with this quote from the book;


“When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.”



Through the ups and downs of this book, I just found the whole meaning behind "So it goes" to be so beautiful and I know it is something that will always stick with me.