
Shalimar the Clown
Book
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls is knifed to death on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter...

SS-GB
Book
A special edition of Deighton's classic thriller, the first and certainly greatest 'what-if?' novel...

Kingsbane
Book
When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing...

Leaders of the Storm Troops: Volume 1: Oberster SA-Fuhrer, SA-Stabschef and SA-Obergruppenfuhrer (B - J)
Andreas Schultz and Michael D. Miller
Book
How did an Austrian-born misfit who had never risen higher in military service than the rank of...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Wonder Woman (2017) in Movies
Feb 10, 2018 (Updated Feb 10, 2018)
There's something very refreshing about the way laborious franchise concerns are firmly put on the back burner, and all the focus is kept on telling a good, strong story. The decision to change the setting to the First World War (apparently made to avoid comparisons with the first Captain America movie) proves to be a really smart one, giving the film its own tone and atmosphere, and the story is well-paced with great character development. It's now hard to imagine anyone other than Gal Gadot playing Wonder Woman, and even Chris Pine is not too annoying for once.
Watching Wonder Woman feels a bit like travelling back in time to a point when summer blockbusters were less calculated, grasping, and egregiously thick-headed. My advice to DC would be to give the security staff a nice long paid holiday and hope the makers of Wonder Woman come back and do it again.
Piercing the Horizon: The Making of a Twentieth-Century American Space Luminary
Book
We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan-legends of the space age whose names resonate with...

The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Book
In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and...

A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips
Book
The Phillips Curve is world famous amongst economists. The man who invented it was an inventor, an...

The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Podcast
Extraterrestrial invasion, the earth taken over by omniscient intelligences from Mars, the whole of...

When Men & Mountains Meet: Like the Desire for Drink or Drugs, the Craving for Mountains is Not Easily Overcome
Book
'We had climbed a mountain and crossed a pass; been wet, cold, hungry, frightened, and withal happy....