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Awix (3310 KP) rated Mortal Engines in Books

Apr 5, 2019  
Mortal Engines
Mortal Engines
Stanislaw Lem | 1977 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
8
9.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Mostly whimsical science-fantasy from possibly the world's most widely-read author in the genre. The majority of these stories are cybernetic folk-tales about robot kings, knights, princesses, and so on, having various unlikely experiences: the tales are droll but also highly imaginative and witty. Also included are a couple of longer, more serious stories - one about a man hunting a robot, the other about a robot hunting a man - no prejudice here, to paraphrase the translator. Well-written and entertaining, gives a sense of Lem's range as an author.
  
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Quentin Tarantino recommended Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan in Music (curated)

 
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
1975 | Alternative, Folk, Singer-Songwriter
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"This is my favourite album ever. I spent the end of my teenage years and my early twenties listening to old music – rockabilly music, stuff like that. Then I discovered folk music when I was 25, and that led me to Dylan. He totally blew me away with this. It’s like the great album from the second period, y’know? He did that first run of albums in the Sixties, then he started doing his less troublesome albums – and out of that comes Blood On The Tracks. It’s his masterpiece"

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Quentin Tarantino recommended Band of Gold/Contact/Best Of/Reaching Out by Freda Payne in Music (curated)

 
Band of Gold/Contact/Best Of/Reaching Out by Freda Payne
Band of Gold/Contact/Best Of/Reaching Out by Freda Payne
2009 | Rock
(0 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I’m a gigantic music fan. I love fifties rock‘n’roll, Chess, Sun, Motown. All the Merseybeat bands, Sixties girl groups, folk. This is just so cool: it’s a combination of the way it’s produced, the cool pop/R&B sound, and Freda’s voice. Its kinda kitschy in a way – y’know, it’s got a really up-tempo tune – and, the first few times I heard it, I was, like, totally into the coolness of the song. It was only on the third or fourth listen I realised the lyrics were so fucking heartbreaking"

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Whit Stillman recommended Wagon Master (1950) in Movies (curated)

 
Wagon Master (1950)
Wagon Master (1950)
1950 | Western
(0 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Directors going independent to make precisely the film they want was not begun — as we sometimes think — by the latterday Johns (Cassavetes and Sayles). After World War Two John Ford formed an indie with the legendary producer (war hero also) Merian C. Cooper: Wagon Master was the lovely result, a film that seems like folk art. The stirring score and brilliant diagonals of Ford’s composition greatly inspired us in the Barcelona edit room — though I’m not sure if any trace of that influence could be found in our film."

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