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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)
2018 | Adventure, Drama
With the title The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot i was not sure what to think going in. This is a nice little gem i would recommend to anyone. I would not watch it again but it was good. It has some interesting ideas and worth viewing. Ehen you think it should be over you find out it is not and i think that is where i did not like it.
Yes this movie does have Hitler and Bigfoot in it.
  
Goodreads: Book Reviews
Goodreads: Book Reviews
Book, Social Networking
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8.8 (453 Ratings)
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I love this app. I can get lost in it. I find a book add it to my list to read then look thru all the other recommendations it gives. End up adding half of those also. I have come across some great authors who I fall totally in love with their every book because it was a book recommended to me by the app. I love have they have now linked it to go to amazon so you can buy it. Made it so much easier! Only down side to me is it doesn't allow for half stars. I wish it would.
  
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Erika (17789 KP) rated Dark Matter in Books

Mar 23, 2019 (Updated Mar 23, 2019)  
Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Blake Crouch | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
Strong opening (1 more)
Strong finish
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When I began this book, I really liked it. What an opening, it was immediately intriguing. I was hooked, then as I went on, it became completely predictable. Almost as though, well, I could have written the book. I liked the concept, but I nearly stopped reading. BUT, I'm glad I did, because it was a good resolution to the novel. Of course, it ended the way you thought it would. I still liked it, and am rating it so high because I loved the beginning and the end.

This would make a super cool movie, and my butt would definitely be in the seat to watch it.
  
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Dean (6927 KP) rated The Rite (2011) in Movies

Feb 10, 2018  
The Rite (2011)
The Rite (2011)
2011 | Drama, Mystery
Ah The Rite.......that seemed to get a few things wrong! It starts a little bit slow, and not particularly interesting. At first it seems to be something that should be taken seriously, based on true events, and it almost has a documentary feel to it. It the latter stages it does finally liven up a bit, largely due to the presence of Anthony Hopkins. Unfortunately some of the action scenes and CGI push it back into the horror realm. If it could stick to one of those paths, serious film or all out horror it would have been much better. Not a bad film but I hoped for something a bit different.
  
Playmobil: The Movie (2019)
Playmobil: The Movie (2019)
2019 | Adventure, Animation
I don't think this movie was as terrible as most of the reviews said it was. It's a kids' movie, about a sibling relationship, and basically, playing with a lot of the Playmobil sets together, as kids do. It was corny and dorky at times, but that's what made it fun. The "acting" was over the top at times, but it was how kids play with the characters. It definitely was silly, but I don't think it was awful. I laughed quite a bit. You just have to accept the play world of children when you watch it. It wasn't the best movie that I've seen, but it was still fun to watch.
  
Epitaph of a Small Winner
Epitaph of a Small Winner
Machado de Assis | 2008 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
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"I just got this in the mail one day. Some stranger in Brazil sent it and wrote, "You'll like this". Because it's a thin book, I read it. If it had been a thick book, I would have discarded it. I was shocked by how charming and amusing it was. I couldn't believe he lived as long ago as he did. You would've thought he wrote it yesterday. It's so modern and so amusing. It's a very, very original piece of work. It rang a bell in me, in the same way that The Catcher in the Rye did. It was about subject matter that I liked and it was treated with great wit, great originality and no sentimentality."

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
1967 | Action, Classics, Drama

"There’s Bonnie and Clyde. That’s a film that kind of started the new wave in the ’70s. That was incredible. I saw that when I was in about the eighth grade, I think. Those characters, and also the history of Bonnie and Clyde, you know… it was something new. I remember, in fact, Bonnie and Clyde came out in either late Spring or early Summer, and then it was pulled. I think it flopped when it came out, and then they brought it back out in the Fall. I mean, I loved it when I first saw it; then they brought it back out in the Fall and it was a huge success."

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Haley Mathiot (9 KP) rated Touch in Books

Apr 27, 2018  
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Touch
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10.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
Touch was crazy. It threw you in at the first sentence. It hung on tight the whole story through. I was amazed at the beauty and ugliness of the thing that was the main character—whatever her…his…it’s name was. I was amazed at all of it. Up until the end when I thought I would cry.

I didn’t want it to end, and when I finally figured out how it would, end I was furious. But I also knew there was literally no other way it could work; and yet it was still so hard to accept.

The mystery, the suspense, the back-story that fed into the current events, it was all enchanting and amazing and well written, and I will 100% read it again, and 100% recommend it to anybody. Claire North, you’re on my Author Watch.

As well as being well written, it was also well performed. I loved the voice chosen for the reader, it was read at a good speed, and it was read well.

Content/Recommendation: Some language. ages 15+
  
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Sam (74 KP) rated Kill The Boyband in Books

Mar 27, 2019  
Kill The Boyband
Kill The Boyband
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I’ve never read a book with dark humour quite like this. It was brilliant. The jokes are definitely inappropriate, and that’s why I loved them so much. It’s unusual to get humour like this in YA so it was definitely worth it. The only bit of humour I wasn’t completely on board with were the sexual harassment jokes, but it did fit the theme of teenage fantasies so I’m not going to complain too much about that.

It is definitely written for the boy band generation, which I somehow sort of managed to avoid. I say ‘sort of’ because I’ve still gone through that phase of obsessing over a band. I just love the way it portrays crazy fan girls.

It could easily be One Direction fanfiction with how bizarre it is, but I’m not complaining about that! It just made it even more funny and painfully relatable.

I started this book expecting not to like it, and I finished loving it! I just wish it had a nicer cover!
  
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Woody Woodmansey recommended track Sweet Thing by David Bowie in Diamond Dogs by David Bowie in Music (curated)

 
Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
Diamond Dogs by David Bowie
1974 | Rock
8.0 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

Sweet Thing by David Bowie

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"I didn’t play on that one either, and also heard it for the first time while listening to the radio. It just has an indescribable feel about it that involves a lot of yucky things from life. You can watch a movie and it will have horrible bits in it, but it will have nice bits in it too, and if you didn’t get through the horrible part of the movie, then the nice bits wouldn’t be as nice. That was one of those songs like that, where it was nice, but it was horrible as well. For me anyway! I could include more from his career later on that I really liked, of course, but certain ones just hit me as a normal member of the public, so I wasn’t going: “Oh this is a Bowie song, I better hear it,” I just heard it and it caught my attention. That just happens sometime, when something is playing in the background and then it just grabs you, while you might be doing something else."

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