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Verner Latskin (74 KP) rated Deadpool (2016) in Movies

Jul 20, 2017

Deadpool (2016)

2016 | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

8.7

(282 Ratings)

Movie Rating

It's a freaking Deadpool movie (4 more)

Deadpool.

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, arguably the reason he was put on this earth

It's fun, really funny, and appropriately shallow where it should be

The modest budget was very good for this film, forcing (allowing?) a focus on character

It could have been funnier still (1 more)

Not enough Deadpool.

A more than promising start to the only superhero franchise I can really get excited about anymore

After ten plus years of overly serious, dour, and sometimes downright depressing movies about silly people who choose to dress in silly outfits when they fight equally ridiculous "bad guys", we finally got Deadpool. Sure, Guardians of the Galaxy was the first one to take itself not so seriously, and it was genuinely great, but nothing beats the small scale stakes of a guy who just wants really good plastic surgery so his girlfriend will still want to f him. Because that's what Deadpool is, and it's great. It could have perhaps, possibly, still been funnier, as there are several scenes that just felt as if they were missing 'something', but that might be largely due to the fact that we don't get to Deadpool being Deadpool until almost half way through - i know a lot of people would disagree, but for me, the only real problem with "Deadpool" is that there isn't enough Deadpool. But what we get is pretty amazing.

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Sheridan (209 KP) rated Horde in Books

Jul 9, 2017

Horde

Ann Aguirre | 2013 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(4 Ratings)

Book Rating

Perfect Finish to a Trilogy

Contains spoilers, click to show

Wow what a brilliant piece of work! This was an incredible end for this brilliant series. Just a warning though if you are reading this series don't read the blurb for this book huge spoilers which kind of wrecked the suspense for me. Overall it was amazing and blew my freaking mind. *Spoiler Alert* I cried several times and when Stalker was killed I almost put it down I couldn't stand it I wanted so desperately for him to find a happy ending. Fade becomes a little less like a wet rag in this one which improved my opinion of him. I became attached to many characters that didn't survive the final battle but in the end it's war and I respect the fact that some of them died because it would've been completely unrealistic if they had all survived and that would have lowered my opinion of the book. I loved how the freaks evolved and came into play at the end it shows real research into realisitic war situations. finally I was shocked and amazed that Stone and Thimble survived and were on the island, great plot twist I was like "get the f**k out!" so that was a fun moment because many books are very predictable and that threw me for six. Amazing amazing work! Read it it'll change the way you see the world. :-)

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Colin Campbell (25 KP) rated Audible – audio books, original series & podcasts in Apps

Apr 30, 2019

Choice of books (2 more)

Frequent 2 for 1 offers

Stephen Fry Narration

Some narrators (1 more)

Some books in a series are missing

Too many books, not enough time...

What can I say about Audible that hasn't been mentioned in other reviews? Probably nothing ?

I live near London and unfortunately the commute is hell, reading makes the commute go faster but with train carriages packed like cattle you can't really turn the pages of a book. This is where Audible comes in, you can unobtrusively listen to books that you may be embarrassed to show others that you are reading (eg The Very Hungry Caterpillar)

This isn't the only thing, you also get the options to listen to Audible specific Audio Shows like Frys English Delights and How Not to F**k up your kids, these are free for subscribers and pro ide a nice 30 minute piece of escapism.

Some Kindle Books come whispersync enabled which gives you an Audible copy of the book, sometimes cheaper than buying the audio book individually.

I also have the Audible app on my Fire Stick and with the sleep timer you can easily fall asleep listening to a well narrated piece of work.

Now the cons...
Not all narrators are actually good to listen to, Unfortunately it would take too much time to get more recorded and taking into account their schedules.
Some series are incomplete and it does not look they will be recorded sometime soon (Julian May, Many Coloured Land)