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ClareR (6256 KP) rated Other Names for Love in Books

Jan 28, 2023  
Other Names for Love
Other Names for Love
Taymour Soomro | 2022 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, LGBTQ+
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
This rather enjoyable novel is harder to describe than it is to read, so I’m not going to describe it!
I think at the heart of this is the need of the main character to be accepted for who he is: his personality, his sexuality, his life choices. He doesn’t want to carry on with the family businesses of either farming or politics, and he likes his life in London. This is only reinforced for him when he needs to go back to see his ailing father.

The language is evocative of the places and times, especially when Fahad is living in the countryside. It’s a place that’s barely contained - the jungle wants to reclaim the farmland, much like Fahad wanting to claim his own life.

You can feel how repressed Fahad is by cultural and familial expectations, as much as the oppressive heat seems to smother him as well.

I enjoyed this melancholy read, and look forward to seeing what the author writes next
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Pacific Rim (2013) in Movies

Feb 25, 2018  
Pacific Rim (2013)
Pacific Rim (2013)
2013 | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
7
7.3 (98 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Brave and comparatively rare (these days) attempt to do a blockbuster that isn't a remake nor based on a novel, comic book, toy line, TV show or theme park attraction. Which is not to say this isn't a tremendously derivative movie; clearly inspired by tokosatsu movies, manga, and anime, just with most of the actual Japanese characters replaced by Americans and Australians. (Hmmm, isn't this cultural appropriation?)

Anyway: big monsters lumber out of the sea, get smacked in the mouth by giant robots. Story isn't really anything special, but the background details of this slightly cartoony world are engaging, as are some of the supporting performances. Film subscribes to the prevailing American dogma, which is that giant monster fights must take place at night and preferably in bad weather: apparently this makes them much more believable. The Hong Kong battle is terrific, the others not so much. In the end I think the premise of this movie is really much better than the way it is realised; maybe the sequel will address some of the shortcomings here.
  
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lurkykitty (3 KP) rated The Only Good Indians in Books

Mar 25, 2020 (Updated Mar 25, 2020)  
The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians
Stephen Graham Jones | 2020
10
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Only Good Indians is a well written and superbly crafted horror story. (0 more)
A well written and superbly crafted horror story
The Only Good Indians is a well written and superbly crafted horror story which takes place in the northwestern US and has characters from the Blackfeet and Crow tribes. Four young Blackfeet men embark on a badly planned and illegal elk hunt which results in a violation of tribal values and the desecration of nature. Ten years later, an entity exacts her revenge in a chilling, suspenseful and brutal fashion. The characters are incredibly well developed given the length of the novel, and the reader develops sympathy for them. The reader also empathizes with the perspective of the entity who pursues the four men. This story has great depth in its exploration of themes of cultural identity, tradition, social justice, revenge and respect for the natural world. Horror readers will love this, but I would also recommend this book for readers of fiction in general. I can see why this The Only Good Indians is receiving so much critical acclaim.