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Hana Wilsei (7 KP) rated Coffin Road in Books

Jan 19, 2018 (Updated Jan 19, 2018)  
Coffin Road
Coffin Road
Peter May | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
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The MCs of this book are simply not as likably as Fin MacLeod of The Lewis Trilogy. For most of this book, the MC (the one in 1st person) is unsure of who he is, though it seems obvious that he is related to another MC. As someone who experienced traumatic amnesia, I know that the character's amnesia is well done, but as a reader I didn't like it--it lasted too long. This was a good read, just not as thrilling as his other books.
  
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Cynthia Armistead (17 KP) rated The Rainbow Cadenza: A Novel In Vistata Form in Books

Mar 1, 2018  
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The Rainbow Cadenza: A Novel In Vistata Form
J. Neil Schulman
2
2.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I really wanted to like this book, and after [b:Alongside Night|1955398|J. Neil Schulman's Alongside Night|J. Neil Schulman|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190837684s/1955398.jpg|1958351] I had fairly high expectations. I knew that I agreed with most of his political views as I understood them, so all should have been well.

Unfortunately, it reads as if Schulman had a political point to make and wrote the story around it. The world and the plot are just pasted onto the soapbox. The rationale given for why the population has gotten so skewed so that there are too few women doesn't ring true.
  
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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Just Jorie in Books

Jun 6, 2018  
Just Jorie
Just Jorie
Robin Alexander | 2016 | Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Ok, this is the first audio book I have listened to for pleasure. I loved the story and the characters were amazing. That is what I am basing my review on. The narrator was good as well just I don't like to listen to books, reminds me too much of work. That said the quirkiness of the character and the banter really makes this story. I really did laugh out quite a bit. I do believe I prefer the voices in my own head though. So, whichever you prefer listen or read pick this book up. It is worth it.
  
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Roxanne (13 KP) rated The Man in the Picture in Books

Nov 14, 2018  
The Man in the Picture
The Man in the Picture
Susan Hill | 2007 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I'll admit that this one confused me a little which made me zone in and out every so often, so that would have affected my enjoyment. This was a short creepy read, quite original and well written but I didn't enjoy it as much as I did 'The Woman in Black'. I like a good scare but this just didn't give me the scare I was hoping for, no goosebumps and the story became too predictable towards the end. Perhaps due to it's short length it came across a little flat, however, considering how short it was it was an ok read.
  
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Doug Nichol recommended Five Easy Pieces (1970) in Movies (curated)

 
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Five Easy Pieces (1970)
1970 | Classics, Drama, Musical
8.7 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite Watch

"Both of these films are in the box set America Lost and Found: The BBS Story, which is a masterpiece. It’s too bad companies like BBS don’t exist anymore. These two films capture loneliness and melancholy in a way that affects me deeply, yet they also have humor and beautiful open endings. There are moments in the performances in The Last Picture Show—Cloris Leachman’s final scene with Timothy Bottoms, or Ben Johnson’s scene at the water tank, just to name a few—that are stunning. The film also has incredible mood and feeling, and sometimes that’s more important than anything."

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John Lydon recommended Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band in Music (curated)

 
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
1969 | Blues, Pop, Psychedelic, Rock
7.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"There’s just so much on this: It’s a double album and by the time you finish it—if you can finish it—you can’t remember what you heard at the beginning. I liked that,” he said of Beefheart. “It was anti-music in the most interesting and insane way, like kids learning to play violin—which I was going through at the time. So all the bum notes I was being told off for by the teachers were finally being released by well-known artists. “That was my confirmation. From then on, there was room for everything"

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Patti Smith recommended A Scarcity of Love in Books (curated)

 
A Scarcity of Love
A Scarcity of Love
Anna Kavan | 2009 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
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"Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I approach Land of a Thousand Dances: she’s caught in a haze and then a light, a little teeny light, come through. It could be a leopard, that light, or it could be a spot of blood. It could be anything. But she hooks onto that and spirals out. And she does it within the accessible rhythms of plot, and that’s really exciting. She’s not hung up with being a woman, she just keeps extending herself, keeps telescoping language and plot."

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