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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)
Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1)
Richard Castle | 2009 | Fiction & Poetry
8
7.1 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
3.5 stars.

I liked the authenticity of the police-work Nikki and her team did and I liked the thing she has going with Jameson Rook and look forward to exploring this a little more in the next book.

What I wasn't particularly a fan of was the continual use of Nikki's last name to identify her throughout the book, especially considering New York is experiencing a heat wave at the same time. I kept getting confused.

It didn't take away from the investigation and I would never have guessed who was behind it all.

Looking forward to reading more of the series (mainly for the romance)!
  
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Steve Buscemi recommended Brute Force (1947) in Movies (curated)

 
Brute Force (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
1947 | Classics, Drama, Film-Noir
6.7 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I watched this 1947 stark, black and white, noirish prison drama as part of research for a film I directed called Animal Factory, written by novelist and ex-convict Eddie Bunker. For years I thought director Jules Dassin was a Frenchman working in the U.S. I was surprised to learn he was an American (Russian Jew) from Connecticut who fled the U.S. during the red scare of the fifties. He ended up in Paris and made the wonderful French film Rififi, which added to my confusion. The Naked City (1948) by Dassin is also a classic, shot on gloriously gritty locations in New York City."

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William Finnegan recommended Invisible Man in Books (curated)

 
Invisible Man
Invisible Man
John Callahan, Ralph Ellison | 2001 | Fiction & Poetry
6.0 (5 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Invisible Man has become something of an invisible book. It’s an American masterpiece and a pure, if searing, joy to read. Published in 1952, it dramatizes the doubleness of black life in America in a raucous, outrageous saga, as its unnamed narrator makes the Great Migration north to New York. “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” Its brilliance is distinctly midcentury, though, and Ellison, once a Marxist firebrand, became an arch elitist, doing his book no favors with his disdain for popular struggles around race and inequality. But the vitality of Invisible Man is undiminished, and its most caustic insights into American life still painfully relevant."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Black Rain (1989) in Movies

Apr 17, 2021 (Updated Apr 17, 2021)  
Black Rain (1989)
Black Rain (1989)
1989 | Action, Drama, Thriller
6
7.2 (16 Ratings)
Movie Rating Watch
Cold Case
Black Rain- is a good action film. Micheal Douglas was good in it. Ridley Scott directed it.

The plot: New York City policemen Nick (Michael Douglas) and Charlie (Andy Garcia) witness a murder in a bar and quickly apprehend the assailant. The killer, named Sato (Yusaku Matsuda), is a member of Japan's infamous Yakuza mob, and Nick and Charlie must transport the gangster back to Osaka for his murder trial. There, Sato's fellow gangsters free him from police custody, forcing Nick and Charlie to scour Japan's dangerous underworld of organized crime in search of their fugitive.

Watch it if you want to.