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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Case Against Sugar in Books

Oct 5, 2017  
The Case Against Sugar
The Case Against Sugar
Gary Taubes | 2017 | Health & Fitness
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Detailed look at how sugar is peddled to the masses
It's true, a lot of the arguments seem obvious in this day and age that sugar is bad for you. However, this book explains how for decades, giant corporations such as Coca Cola and well known confectioners, and academics with interests in the sugar foundation attempted to thwart all research surrounding this. For much of the time, sugar was seen as the better evil compared to saturated fat, but actually it has been the number one cause in the rise of diabetes, illnesess related to cancer and even dementia.

It is important to read why sugar has been ignored for so long, and no doubt it'll make you feel guilty for reaching for that chocolate bar, and possibly question if that spoonful in your tea is a good idea.
  
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Nikki G. (48 KP) rated The Fault in Our Stars in Books

Sep 2, 2017  
The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green | 2012 | Children
8
8.2 (185 Ratings)
Book Rating
There was a point where the tears started to drip, faintly, from my eyes, and they didn't stop until I closed the book and lay there for a bit.

I avoided this book for a while because it has been super-hyped, and most of the time, those are the books that do not live up to my expectations. This, however, was pretty solid. Hazel and Augustus have the short of overblown, pretentious conversations I had as a young adult, back when I thought I was so Worldly because I'd read a handful of classics. The only difference, of course, is that I did not have a terminal illness. I appreciate Mr. Green's attempt to bring the sometimes ugly reality that is cancer to the fore. It was also humorous in parts, and sweet. Hit all the right notes for me.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Deadpool (2016) in Movies

Feb 19, 2018  
Deadpool (2016)
Deadpool (2016)
2016 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
7
8.7 (283 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Not the first R-rated superhero movie, nor the first superhero comedy film, nor even the first movie to feature Ryan Reynolds as Wade Wilson, but it does a good job of appearing to do something new and different, and has lots of good jokes. Garrulous mercenary volunteers for special procedure in attempt to fend off terminal illness; basically ends up with cancer as a super-power.

The plot is really very secondary to the style of the film, anyway, which is all about being very irreverent and transgressive towards the perceived conventions of the superhero movie; there's a bit of a straw man argument being made here, but the action is well staged and it is, as mentioned, very funny. Not the future of the genre, no matter what people may say, but a well-crafted piece of entertainment nevertheless.
  
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CKD (37 KP) rated The Runaway Jury in Books

Dec 7, 2018  
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The Runaway Jury
John Grisham | 1996
10
7.7 (7 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is a book about a jury in a tobacco company trial. A widow is suing a tobacco company because her husband died from lung cancer from smoking this company's cigarettes for many years. (No real tobacco companies were named in this book). At first glance, it appears that one juror (#2) is controlling the jury. But is he? Is he acting alone or is he working with someone on the outside? A woman keeps calling a jury consultant and giving information that turns out to be true - could she be working with Juror #2? One side wants/needs a verdict in favor of the tobacco company and the other side wants/needs a verdict in favor of the widow. Who will win?

Was also made into a movie in 2003 staring John Cusack, Gene Hackman and Dustin Hoffman, among others.
  
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Sevda (1 KP) rated A Walk to Remember in Books

Jan 9, 2019  
A Walk to Remember
A Walk to Remember
Nicholas Sparks | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
10
8.0 (20 Ratings)
Book Rating
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Omg I could not put this book down at all from beginning to end. Omg by the time I was done, I was an emotional wreck. Ok this is where I let you know what happens in the end. So don't want to know, then stop right here. Ok so the story is about this boy named Landon who falls in love with this girl named Jamie. Now Jamie is not like the rest of the girls at school. But that doesn't stop andon from falling in love with her. But there is a secret that she kept hidden from him. She was dying from cancer. So to make her biggest wish come true, He proposes to her. You'll need alot of kleenex for this.