Solitaire City Classic
Games and Entertainment
App
No ads or In-App purchases! Play Klondike solitaire, the world's most popular solitaire/patience...
Sound Sleeper - white noise machine for baby sleep
Lifestyle and Health & Fitness
App
As seen on BBC Business News! Help your baby relax and drift gently off to sleep with real sounds...
Sound Sleeper: White Noise
Health & Fitness and Lifestyle
App
Help your baby relax and drift gently off to sleep with real sounds of nature and the city - also...
The Cleansed: A Post-Apocalyptic Saga
Podcast
Equal parts "Mad Max" and "The Stand," this post apocalyptic saga is set in a world 15 years after...
CHILLFILTR (46 KP) rated Tough Love by Molly Moore in Music
Jul 11, 2019
Moore discusses her plan to push her sound a bit closer to Banks and London Grammar; we think she has already found a place between Annie Lennox and Jamie Lidell.
Material Innovation: Architecture
Andrew H. Dent and Leslie Sherr
Book
This new volume in the Material Innovation series focuses on architecture, and features buildings...
Listening for Theatrical Form in Early Modern England
Book
Early modern drama was in fundamental ways an aural art form. How plays should sound and how they...
David McK (3277 KP) rated Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8) in Books
Jan 28, 2019
I have to say, however, that I've found his latest Discworld books to be 'less good' - perhaps a sympton of his sad mental decline? - than what I would term a late-middle period Pratchett (round about 'Lords and Ladies', 'Jingo' and so on). In this one, he returns to Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch - last featured in 'Thud!', who is on holiday in the country-side. Of course, as the blurb makes clear, it is inevitable that this turns into a Busmans holiday ...
The novel did have a few laugh-out-loud moments, but not as many as from one of his best. I also found it to be rather verbose at times, with only really one extended action scene. While some characters - Willikens, in particular - are more fleshed out than before, I also got the distinct feeling that other members of the City Watch were only (temporarily) present as it wouldn't be a City Watch book without them; not to add anything to the story.
While that might make it sound like I didn't enjoy the book, that's simply not true - I did, but just felt that it could have been so much more ...
Carols from King's
Book
The exquisite sound of a lone chorister singing Once in Royal David's City amid the candlelit chapel...
LiveTunes: LIVE Music Player
Music and Entertainment
App
What if you could make any regular song sound like a live concert with the touch of a button? ...