Hands on: Locati Architects
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Locati Architects & Interiors was founded in 1989 by its principal, Jerry Locati, in Bozeman,...
The Lost Pages
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It is 1908, and Max Brod is the rising star of Prague's literary world. Everything he desires -...
Ross (3284 KP) rated You Die When You Die in Books
Jan 21, 2020
There follows a brilliant, exciting, funny story of this small clan with mixed abilities (some well trained warriors, some powerful yet cowardly warlocks, some useless wastes of space) travelling across North America, hunted by the magically-enhanced warriors sent to end them, and meeting numerous clans and tribes along the way.
The wonderful merging of plausible pre-history America and a more familiar fantasy setting (prophecies, evil empires, warriors) results in this superb story. The dialogue is witty and funny, the world is familiar yet strange enough to make you think, and the action sequences are fantastically narrated, often from different viewpoints.
The characters are all very well crafted and unique, and their interactions and conflicts really spur this story on.
I would urge anyone keen on fantasy to read this book. While the cover, and title, may suggest it is a brutal slobberknocker of a book, it is actually very clever, funny and thrilling.
I cannot wait to jump in to the next book in this trilogy. Wootah!!!
Awix (3310 KP) rated The War of the Worlds in TV
Dec 2, 2019
Part of a grim tradition where BBC attempts to adapt SF, fantasy and horror classics operate to different standards than when they are tackling Austen or Dickens. If the team who perpetrated War of the Worlds got their hands on Pride and Prejudice, it would end up being a lesbian romance between the Bennets' maid and one of the minor daughters, performed on ice, with a frame story concerning the Boer war. It's not just that it does the book badly, it genuinely doesn't seem interested in it at all. Someone gets a leaden, clumsy speech articulating the subtext of the novel (how to adapt a great book for the hard-of-thinking) but as to what this version of the story is supposed to be about or why we should care at all... It takes real skill and determination to screw up a classic piece of literature quite this badly.
To The Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945
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In 1939, as an art student, Ronald Searle volunteered for the army. Called up in September, he...
Young Jean Lee recommended Le Bonheur (1965) in Movies (curated)
NeverSeconds: The Incredible Story of Martha Payne
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Martha Payne is nine years old. She set up a simple blog neverseconds where she reviewed her school...
Flashlight & Morse Utility
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-Light, Morse and Strobe -Brightness Adjustment -Screen Lock Super fast start of the flashlight!!! ...
The New Politics of Regionalism: Perspectives from Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific
Ulf Engel, Heidrun Zinecker, Frank Mattheis and Antje Dietze
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This edited volume approaches regionalism as one potential pattern in a changing global order. Since...
The Warrior-Prophet
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The first battle against the heathen has been won, but while the Great Names plot and squabble over...