The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem
Frank Kermode and Muriel Spark
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The brevity of Muriel Spark's novels is equaled only by their brilliance. These four novels, each a...
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
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With its jagged, stylised sets, menacing shadows and themes of murder, madness and delirium, Das...
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
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The age of exploration was drawing to a close, yet the mystery of the North Pole remained....
Sarah (7798 KP) rated Peaky Blinders - Season 4 in TV
Sep 22, 2019
The threat faced in this series seems very real, and it brings an entirely sinister feeling to the entire show. The Shelbys have always come across as being bulletproof and able to overcome any obstacles or gangsters in their way, but this series shows an entirely different vulnerable side which is good to watch. As always, there are some wonderful performances in this and some great twists and turns in the plot. I felt like Adrien Brody’s Luca Changretta was a little too stereotypical and over the top, but I’m guessing that was how Italian gangsters were (or perceived to be) during those times, so I won’t hold it against him too much. I do sometimes think that some of the twists and turns get to be a little too much but overall this is a rather wonderful series as a great return to form.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The Great God Pan in Books
Aug 21, 2019
It's slightly amusing to consider that this novella was criticised on first release for its decadence and sexual content - by modern standards it is, on the surface at least, very tame. But that's the nature of the beast in this case - this is a horror story where all the disturbing scenes happen off-stage, which is where the monster stays as well. Everything happens through implication, and is left somewhat to the reader's imagination, a trick which Machen pulls off rather more deftly than some writers who hailed him as an influence. I must be honest and say that the lack of a big reveal and a genuine climax wrong-footed me a bit, but the story is on the whole ingeniously structured and well-written, atmospheric and unsettling.
The Wastelands - Dark Tower III
8.6
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Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers....
Dark Tower The Gunslinger
The Animals at Lockwood Manor
10.0
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Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable . . . August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty...
The First Fall (When Winter Comes #1)
8.0
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The sky is bleeding. The storm has come. A crimson rift washes over the isolated Alaskan town of...
Writing Home
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Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose...
Into the Fire (The Caitlin Chronicles #2)
Daniel Willcocks and Michael Anderle
8.0
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Justice has called, and there’s only one hero left to answer the call… Caitlin may have freed...