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The Secret History
The Secret History
Donna Tartt | 1993 | Fiction & Poetry
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7.7 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
This is kind of a cult classic. Some people love it, many hate it. One of the reasons I only recommend it to people who's tastes I know and trust will like it--otherwise, I will judge you if you're a hater. (0 more)
Not a cuppa tea for a lot of people. Cliquey and kind of insipid characters that you'll likely find something to hate about, while secretly wishing they'd let you in. (0 more)
Coming of age, why dunnit, college, and flawed characters
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This book has been one of my all-time favorites for years, and one of the few I re-read about every year or two.

A clique of "gifted misfits" find one another and form a clique at a liberal arts school (think Middlebury) on the East Coast. One is dead very early on. The rest of the book unfolds with. their incredibly intertwined, co-dependant, and complex relationships as you slowly learn what happened, why it did, and what's going to go down after.
  
Serenity (2019)
Serenity (2019)
2019 | Drama, Thriller
WHAT did I just watch??????
I am very torn on this film, and I can't decide whether to just rate it as ok or good. The film weirdo inside of me kind of dug it, but I don't think most audiences will.The critics also hate it, but maybe this will be one of those cult classic things.
The trailer gives the general outline, Matthew McConaughey's character is a fisherman, obsessed by this fish, and Anne Hathaway's character asks him to kill her abusive husband, Jason Clarke (who is now being cast in absolutely everything nowadays). BUT, what is actually going on isn't really clear in the beginning. I feel like it gave hints to its twist fairly early.
Who is actually seeking serenity in the film? That's what you'll be thinking about the entire film.
The twist will most likely be a groaner for most people, as this sort of twist isn't really widely liked.
  
    The Apple Harvest

    The Apple Harvest

    Games

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    Sonny and Lambert are making apple pies. Help them collect falling apples with your wheelbarrow...

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
1977 | Horror
9
7.4 (10 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Cannibal Savages
The Hills Have Eyes- is a disturbing psychological survival horror film. Wes did it again.

The plot: Wes Craven's cult classic about cannibalistic mountain folk, including the Carter family, who are on the trail of stranded vacationers in the arid Southwest Californian desert.

Craven based the film's script on the legend of cannibal Sawney Bean, which Craven viewed as illustrating how supposedly civilized people could become savage.

Wes Craven desired to make a non-horror film, following his directorial debut, The Last House on the Left (1972), because he saw the horror genre as constraining. However, he could not find producers interested in financing a project that did not feature bloody violence.

The film was initially given an X rating by the MPAA due to its graphic violence. Due to this, significant material was removed from Fred's death scene, the sequence where Mars and Pluto attack the trailer, and the last confrontation with Papa Jupiter.

Its a excellent movie.