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David McK (3632 KP) rated Sierra Bravo (Harriett Walsh #3) in Books

Mar 21, 2021  
Sierra Bravo (Harriett Walsh #3)
Sierra Bravo (Harriett Walsh #3)
Simon Haynes | 2021
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Third entry in Simon Haynes's Harriet Walsh Peace Force books, which sees Peace Force trainee Harriet and her 'sister' Alice off to the nearby city of Chirless, the planet Dismolle's second major city, and in which a major criminal gang has moved back into to offer 'protection'.

Devolving, essentially, into one long drawn out siege, this novel is what I would term a light read - it's perfectly competent (probably miles better than anything I could produce), moves along at a reasonable rate, throws one or two twists in but is also, ultimately, forgettable.

NB that's not to say that I didn't enjoy my time with it - I did - just that I'm not sure if it is a novel I would want to re-read at a later date.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Riders of Justice (2020) in Movies

Jul 24, 2021  
Riders of Justice (2020)
Riders of Justice (2020)
2020 | Action, Comedy, Drama
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Danish revenge thriller. A veteran soldier teams up with a gang of geeks to find the man responsible for his wife's death. Looks like yet another attempt at something like a Liam Neeson movie, but this is much defter and funnier, and more emotionally articulate.

Great performance from Mikkelson, playing the straight man as he is surrounded by comic performances from his various sidekicks - but this is a serious film about grief and how the world works and how people attempt to make sense of this. The director manages to slide the film from farce to thriller to drama without any of the changes in tone jarring in the slightest, even if the plot is a bit reliant on the occasional contrivance. Lots of fun but also undeniably moving.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Down Every Road by Merle Haggard in Music

May 4, 2020  
Down Every Road by Merle Haggard
Down Every Road by Merle Haggard
1996 | Country
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Rating
Rolling Stone's 477th greatest "album" of all time
First off, since when was a 4-disc anthology considered an album?!
If there was a country version of the old "infinite monkeys with typewriters would eventually write Shakespeare" then I think I just listened to it. So many slightly different combinations of guitar and fiddle melodies, yet they never managed to recreate Jonny Cash.
Country really isn't my bag at all and I should never have listened to this.
Prior to this, my only knowledge of Merle Haggard was the Bloodhound Gang lyric "I was lonelier than Kunta Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert that night I strolled on into Uncle Limpy's Hump Palace lookin' for love", which I didn't understand until now. I wish it had stayed that way.