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Bysa (2 KP) rated Still Missing in Books

Sep 19, 2018

Still Missing

Chevy Stevens | 2010 | Crime, Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(9 Ratings)

Book Rating

I cannot stop the story from spinning in my mind still. I have been stewing over this read for the past hour or so. I love her storytelling. Her descriptions make you feel like you are truly there and can nearly feel the breeze blowing off the lake into your window... or her writing would make you think you can. I cannot get enough of this writer. I have read Never Knowing and now this one, Still Missing and I am pre-ordering her next book due out in June. I couldn't put this book down. I just love these thrillers.

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Andy K (10823 KP) rated Happy Birthday to Me (1981) in Movies

Oct 28, 2018

Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

1981 | Horror, International

7.0

(6 Ratings)

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Campy 80s goodness

I love movies like this in my basement alone the Saturday night before Halloween!

When a bunch of teenagers start coming up missing, the authorities are baffled. Who could be responsible? It couldn't be the mysterious Virginia could it?

The death scenes are kind of what an 80s version of a Final Destination film would look like I think. The main star is Melissa Sue Anderson who must have wanted to break stereotype while filing Little House on the Prairie s she played the bad girl this time.

Thoroughly enjoyable film.

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David McK (3687 KP) rated Firestorm (Weather Warden, #5) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

I quite enjoyed the first Weather Warden book ("Ill Wind").

The second ("Heat Stroke") was even better

Unfortunately, the third, and then the fourth ("Chill Factor" and "Windfall", respectively) were a bit of a let-down.

Thankfully, this is a return to form: picking up almost exactly from the end of "Windfall", this is faster-moving than it's predecessor, more engaging and more action-packed.

R.E.M. sang it best: "It's the end of the world as we know it ..." (even if, for some inscrutable reason, that track is missing from the authors' own suggestion of what to listen to while reading)

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Micky Barnard (542 KP) rated Nights in Rodanthe in Books

Jan 25, 2019 (Updated Jan 25, 2019)

Nights in Rodanthe

Nicholas Sparks | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

6.5

(8 Ratings)

Book Rating

It was better than the book (1 more)

The casting

Something about it fell a little flat (0 more)

A mindless but okay movie

I liked the casting and watched this because I do like some Nicholas Sparks on occasion. I'd read the book and it was mediocre at best. The film exceeded the book but still there is something significant missing in plot development. The main story in the house has some feeling but the background story as to why Gere's character is in the area lacked realism. It was still a decent movie to pass the time, but not desperately memorable.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Only Built 4 Cuban Linx by Raekwon in Music

May 2, 2020

Rolling Stone's 480th greatest album of all time

This is Raekwon's, real name Raemond Kwon (joke), debut solo album on a brief break from WuTang Klan. I like my hip hop with a good amount of focus on the actual music, and for me this was somewhat missing throughout the album. This means the album is more of a collection of shouts over basic drum beats. Add to this the frequent interludes of people arguing and swearing at each other (seriously how and why do they record these interludes?!) it makes the album a little boring and samey.