Clara's Legacy
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One September day in New York, Clara Reinecke gives her grandson, Jonathan, a composer and lecturer...
Hawker Hurricane and Sea Hurricane
Martin Derry and Neil Robinson
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When Sidney Camm's masterpiece, the Hawker Hurricane, entered RAF service in late 1937 it quickly...
Optimization by GRASP: Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures
Mauricio G. C. Resende and Celso C. Ribeiro
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This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a...
Invisible City (Rebekah Roberts #1)
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A finalist for the Edgar and Mary Higgins Clark Awards, in her riveting debut Invisible City,...
Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
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If someone called you a 'googlewhack' what would you do? Would you end up playing table tennis with...
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) in Movies
Feb 9, 2018 (Updated Feb 9, 2018)
On one level this does sound like the broadest kind of exploitative schlock, and it's true that the monster suit at the end is utterly crapulous, but this does not take into account the disturbingly dreamy atmosphere conjured up by director Haggard and Marc Wilkinson's score. There's a touch of the genuine gothic in the way something ancient and disturbing erupts into a quietly bucolic world.
Plus, there is a hard edge of gleeful nastiness to this film which is wholly lacking from the movies being made by Tigon's better-known rivals at Hammer and Amicus during the same period. There's a sense in which most Hammer movies feel like costume dramas with a little blood included as a contractual obligation, but Blood on Satan's Claw goes all-out to mess the viewer up - it's not especially frightening as such, but it's a very unsettling, creepy movie that's a worthy successor to an ancient English tradition of supernatural horror stories.
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2173 KP) rated A Batter of Life and Death in Books
Jan 15, 2021
It’s been too long since I read the first book in the series, but I was quickly back in Jules’s world with this fun second in the series. The pacing was a bit off at times, but overall there is an enjoyable mystery with plenty of secrets for Jules to uncover. The suspects are good and do their part to keep us guessing. Jules has some personal stuff she is trying to work through, and I enjoyed seeing the growth in her here. This book really made me want to visit Ashland at some point in the future. We get seven recipes at the end for a wide variety of things. It’s easy to see why this series is so popular. I need to pick up the next soon.
Sara Dippity
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Sometimes the answers we’re looking for can be found right in our backyard. A heartwarming...
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FloSports: Watch Live Sporting Events
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The FloSports app gives die-hard sports fans access to live stream their favorite events from...