Agatha Raisin and the Witches' Tree
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Toil and trouble in store for Agatha! Cotswolds inhabitants are used to bad weather, but the night...
The Thirteenth Coffin
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A heart-stopping delve into the twisted mind of a serial killer from the creator of the hit BBC...
The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
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Many of the United States most innovative entrepreneurs have been immigrants, from Andrew Carnegie,...
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Before I Let You Go
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The 2:00 a.m. call is the first time Lexie Vidler has heard her sisterβs voice in years. Annie is...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Mutants & Masterminds (3rd Edition) in Tabletop Games
Mar 7, 2018 (Updated Mar 7, 2018)
This is a game which really demands that everyone is on the same page in terms of the tone and style of game they want to play: the character creation system is point-based and it's potentially very easy to create unbalanced, unstoppable combat monsters. Character advancement can also be a little tricky over an extended (20+ session) campaign. Getting to grips with the finer points of the creation system can also be difficult; using a character-building app is an extremely sensible idea.
That said, when a group is sympatico and the GM knows his comic book tropes, this game allows you to play through superhero adventures with an ease and sense of fun like few others. I played in a group running this system on pretty much a weekly basis for 15 months and the individual sessions were almost all great fun; it was long-term problems with the campaign rules that caused the whole thing to grind to a halt.
The Right of Nonuse
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The Right of Nonuse provides a fresh and remarkably different perspective on the real causes of the...
Uncle Fred in the Springtime
P.G. Wodehouse and Martin Jarvis
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Read by Martin Jarvis, this joyous celebration of spring fever is an undisputed comic masterpiece....
Stone The Crows (Wolf Winter #2)
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When the Winter arrives, the Wolves will come down over the walls and eat little boys in their beds....
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LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Your Name (2016) in Movies
Sep 22, 2021
What would your life be like if you were born somewhere else, *someone* else? How much of our lives is predetermined exclusively on such random variables beyond our control, things that we've all imagined changing at one point or another? Just to be upfront, one of my absolute least favorite plots in movies is switching bodies - the plot tends to just halt entirely to provide such rote "lol person does thing they don't usually do lol" or "uh oh... I'm another gender!" jokes before it actually decides to do anything. But between this and 2020's Freaky I'm glad to see they've finally started putting some nuance into these things. Honestly one of the greatest movies I've ever seen - probably the most bracingly beautiful animated movie ever conceived and it's just as impactful narratively. Tackles layers of regressive gender roles, the cruel indiscriminate randomness within human existence, the tumultuousness of adolescence, and along with Shyamalan's ππ―π£π³π¦π’π¬π’π£ππ¦ handles the concept of fate/destiny better than any other film I've seen. That and it's also just so damn hilarious. I initially thought the conclusion was maybe about 10 minutes too long, but afterwards I thought perhaps that was the point - in further distancing it from its preceding events, giving legitimacy to its setting. After a string of disappointments made me remember why I even love movies in the first place.