Smashbomb

How can you really put your own words about someone else's thoughts, someone else's experiences? How can I say she was wrong or right when she very much never had a chance to find out for herself? It seems like not only was she cheated, but we were cheated as well. We won't ever know if she ever adjusted to life without drugs. We won't even know if life with Joel was all she dreamed. Maybe she meant to do it. Maybe it was a mistake, she relapsed and thought she could handle as much as before if not more. Or maybe it was those who were upset she wasn't pushing anymore or thought she was selling them all out. No one can know and it's heartbreaking. It's a reminder no matter how tempting something is we should leave it alone even if we don't think we'll be another horror story.

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Kitteh Kat (4 KP) rated The Perks of Being a Wallflower in Books

Jun 22, 2017

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Immersive and powerful

This book has been sat on my shelves since September, just waiting for the right moment to be read.
An increasingly powerful book that focuses on the life of outcast high school students that are relatable but not overshadowed by popular teenagers.
Grappling with love; loss and life, a teenager writes letters to a stranger (possibly considered to be the reader) explaining his life and his struggles with starting high school and all the aspects that can come along with it - falling in love, making friends, experimenting with drugs/alcohol/sexuality- as well as a multitude of family issues.
The end of the book is revealing and intense and leaves the reader considering the moral behind the book.

My personal opinion is that I would have loves the story to be longer, as I finished it within an evening and for character introductions to be more stable or descriptive.

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Suswatibasu (1702 KP) rated The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in Books

Sep 16, 2017

Detailed, disturbing, an absolute must-read

An absolutely staggering and essential read about America's new apartheid / caste system, created under the guise of the War on Drugs.

Since the civil rights movements and traced back to its origins from the Jim Crow laws, Michelle Alexander discusses how the prison and judicial system is basically used to force African Americans into an underclass. They are not entitled to jobs, housing, benefits and even voting in some cases, stripping them of human rights well after punishment. As 'criminals' they are vilified by all alike thus continually treated like scum.

For others, it's a situation of arresting African Americans en masse for drug crimes, also committed by their white counterparts but are conveniently ignored.

And police forces around the country are continually given bigger budgets to carry out such arrests to bolster their credentials. It can be seen as a racket in many situations. Disturbing but a must-read.

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated Rough Night (2017) in Movies

Feb 9, 2018

Oh what a night

Four college friends get together to go to Miami for there best friends Jess (Johansen) bachelorette party with the addition of Jess's friend from Australia. Alice (Bell) who is the wild one is Jess's best friend and does not want anyone else to come between them plans a wild weekend with her other friends Blair (kravitz) and Frankie (Glazer) and the addition of Pippa (mckinnion) Well drugs and alcohol get involved along with the person who they think is a stripper and then the unthinkable happens and they have to try and figure out a way out of it. What happens you got to watch

The cast is a who's who in the movie world today. A mixture of action and comedy come together to make this movie. However it is again another movie made of of other movies bits with a higher end cast hoping to make it better. A few really funny scenes but otherwise MEH

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Dean (6927 KP) rated Donkey Punch (2008) in Movies

Jul 21, 2018

Donkey Punch (2008)

2008 | Mystery

7.0

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Severely underrated low budget English horror/thriller! Taking a very modern turn on the horror theme and tackling some very taboo ideas as a group of youngsters decide to live it up on holiday losing all their inhibitions as they drink, take drugs and have sex. During which a sex myth tried out leads to one of them dying. As the others battle their own conscience and morals as well as each other to get out of the mess they are in, only ending up in more extreme violence. A good idea for a film that dares to be different. Some may be put off by the sex scene which borders on porn and by the violence. However it does raise some good issues to make a graphic film. Another good entry in recent English horror films. The DVD has quite a few interviews with the cast, director both after and during the making of. Along with some deleted scenes and commentaries.