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The Doll Factory

Elizabeth Macneal

8.3 (3 Ratings) Rate It

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The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is the intoxicating story of a young woman who aspires to be...

Historical Fiction

Black Mirror - Season 5

6.4 (17 Ratings) Rate It

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DescriptionFeaturing stand-alone dramas -- sharp, suspenseful, satirical tales that explore...

Dracula

Bram Stoker and Ang Lee

8.1 (46 Ratings) Rate It

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Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning...

Classic Literature

David McK (3880 KP) rated Mortal Engines (2018) in Movies

Sep 18, 2021

Mortal Engines (2018)

2018 | Fantasy, Sci-Fi

6.7

(57 Ratings)

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Cyberpunk sci-fi movie that should really have been a series, set in the far future centuries after the cataclysmic sixty-minute war and where there are now two main kinds of settlements: the 'traditional' (here, viewed - at least initially - by the main protaganist as barbaric) and mobile: giant cities (London is one) powered by some form of locomotion, who pursue a philosophy of Municipal Darwinism ie hunt down and consume smaller cities to provide supplies and materials.

The problem, however, is that this movie just tries to pack too much into its runtime; too much if the action from the source book on which it is based, with the result that the characters never really seem to develop all that much and, in some cases, are given short shrift (which is why I feel a series would have been better).

Good effect, though.

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Cyber Count

SL Beaumont

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Has cyber-crime escalated to murder? Forensic accountant Kat Munro puts her traumatic past behind...

thriller crime thriller bookbuzz

Shadows That Speak

Gitte Tamar

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Daniel Manley did not experience a single moment of human kindness when cast out as a child onto the...

horror speculative bookbuzz thriller

David McK (3880 KP) rated Moriarty: The Devil's Game in Books

Sep 22, 2024 (Updated Sep 22, 2024)

Moriarty, the Napoleon of crime.

Sherlock Holms arch-nemesis.

But what if Moriarty was actually an innocent man and Sherlock a ruthless narcissist who just happens to have some very (very) good PR?

That's pretty much the basis for this audio-drama, which starts with Moriarty developing an equation to tell the future' before being framed for the death of his fiancee, sentenced to death himself, meets Col Sebastian Moran in Newgate, escapes from the same and goes on the run in the criminal underworld of Victorian London in an effort to clear his name.

The result, I found, was surprisingly enjoyable, with loads of 'call-backs' to the Arthur Conan Doyle stories point which it is based (albeit from a different point of view) and numerous characters from the same.

I think I'll be listening to season 2 no too far in the future ...