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Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

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'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been...

David McK (3649 KP) rated Biggles Learns to Fly in Books

Dec 23, 2020

I was going to start this by saying this was the earliest set of the Biggles stories, back in The First World War.

Then I did a bit of research, and discovered that it depends upon how (and what) you are counting as a Biggles story/book - see http://www.biggles.info/

Perhaps, then, it would be better to say that this is the earliest set of any I have read.

Published in 1935, this is (apparently) a collection of 12 separate short stories, all of which are loosely linked together and follows some of Biggles earlier exploits.

I realise I'm not the target audience for these (I'm now too old). I don't care: sometimes it's nice just to re-live your childhood!

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Silence Fallen (Mercy Thompson, #10)

Patricia Briggs

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Coyote shapeshifter Mercy Thompson is attacked and abducted in her home territory. Fighting off a...

David McK (3649 KP) rated The King's Man (2021) in Movies

Feb 12, 2022

The King's Man (2021)

2021 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

7.0

(11 Ratings)

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Much delayed by the pandemic (roughly 2 years), this is the third Kingsman film, abandoning the modern-day setting of the first and second for a World War One era prequel.

Which proves to be a good move, injecting a spot of interest into the movie - I, for one, struggled with the second entry - and allowing a mishmash of history and fact to play out on screen.

This also has a shocking moment about roughly 2/3rds of the way through, during the period of the movie in the trenches that almost feels like it belongs to a different film altogether.

It also has an absolutely bonkers fight scene involving Rasputin: it's a pity, I feel, that he does not have a larger role than he does!