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Nancy Whang recommended Abbey Road by The Beatles in Music (curated)

 
Abbey Road by The Beatles
Abbey Road by The Beatles
1969 | Rock

"It was one of my cassettes but I think that this is my favourite Beatles record. When I was really young my older brother were really into them. There was a very small selection of records in the house so we just listened to those records over and over again. Two of them were The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon, one of my brothers was big Pink Floyd fan. Another was Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms, and Don McLean's American Pie, and the White Album, which led me to other Beatles stuff. But I love Abbey Road because it's so clearly an album, in that there's clearly a first song and a last song and all the songs in the middle are in an order. You couldn't listen to Abbey Road on shuffle and I like that. I think we've lost a lot of that these days. Things end up just being these singles and no one really buys albums anymore. Albums just aren't constructed that way as much anymore; the whole, the complete package, a narrative, an arc. The first copy I got had somehow been fucked up in the manufacturing process or something because side B was on side A. I remember the first time I listened to it I was listening to it out of order and it sounded weird to me, it felt weird. Then when I realised that it was backwards I listened to it again in the correct order and I was like, "oh, I get it". I also feel like the songs on that record, save for 'Octopus's Garden', also have some darkness about them, which I really like."

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Iron Man 2 (2010)
Iron Man 2 (2010)
2010 | Action, Sci-Fi
Iron Man 2 was incredibly over-hyped, simply because of the stunning performance of its predecessor. Sequels are rarely better than the original and this is a fine example of that. Jon Favreau lost his way a little with this one as we get to see an immensely dislikable Tony Stark frolic his way through the first half.

Whiplash, the film’s main villain, is catastrophically underdeveloped and one of the MCU’s worst, despite an entertaining performance from Mickey Rourke. Thankfully, the special effects are good and the finale, while derivative, is fun and very well filmed.

https://moviemetropolis.net/2018/04/21/the-entire-marvel-cinematic-universe-ranked/
  
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Uwe Boll recommended Apocalypse Now (1979) in Movies (curated)

 
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
1979 | Action, Drama, War

"One of my all-time favorites is Apocalypse Now, because it shows the craziness of war, and you have the feeling that the shooting also was a big adventure. And this is what I like. What is lost, if you see war movies today — not like Pearl Harbor, that’s one of the worst movies of all time — but like Mel Gibson‘s Once We Were Warriors or Soldiers or whatever (2002’s We Were Soldiers), all that stuff, you feel it’s all fake. You feel they go in the evenings to their hotel rooms and it’s all good. But in Apocalypse Now, you feel like these guys were f—ed!"

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Welcome to Night Vale
Welcome to Night Vale
Comedy
10
8.7 (36 Ratings)
Podcast Rating
The characters (2 more)
The voice actors
Pretty much everything.
The Weather (0 more)
For the weirdos
I don't even really remember how I first heard about Welcome to Night Vale but from the first time I listened I knew this was something I was going to love and damn was I right.
 
 I really don't even know how to sum up the show it's so unique and so much fun that is easy to get lost in the episodes that I sat for hours just listening to one episode after another. The characters are just so damn likable that you feel yourself grow really attached to them and waiting for the next episode was hell because you just wanted to know what would happen next.

The only thing I didn't enjoy most of the time was the weather which is just a song but freaking hell so many of the songs are just so bad and I honestly can't even give a genre to.
  
Jordyn (A Daemon Hunter, #1)
Jordyn (A Daemon Hunter, #1)
Tiffany King | 2013 | Paranormal, Romance
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
DNF @ 25%. Maybe that was a little soon to DNF, but I'd been struggling with it for the last 15% or so.

I liked the beginning, how she went after the demons and just being within metres of her makes them combust. And Emrys' introduction was kinda fun.

I think it was just everything else. We didn't seem to get much information on anything else though, or I was having that much trouble with the style and plot that it just didn't register, and I just lost interest.

I found Jordyn quite annoying/immature and Emrys wasn't really in it that much for me to get an opinion on him...

Admittedly it was a freebie and had been on my kindle for a long time...and I only really tried to read it now as part of an a-z challenge in one of my groups.

It just wasn't really up my alley at all.
  
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Liliannar (58 KP) rated Desperation in Books

May 29, 2018  
Desperation
Desperation
Stephen King | 1996 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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7.9 (30 Ratings)
Book Rating
This book was slow to get me interested, but once I finally got to care about the characters I was quite interested. There is a great underlying story. My biggest problem with the book was the not so hidden religious theme that hit it pretty heavily. The concept of Tak being trapped in the Earth made sense with the story. Even having a main character who was heavily influenced by God made sense. There was quite a bit however that just didn't. The entire concept of David seeing the writer in his vision lost me. I couldn't quite get into where I cared about that. As with some of his other stories it really boiled down to good God vs. Bad God / Evil / Bad Forces. It's never quite the devil, but you get the idea of good vs. evil pretty clearly.
I haven't yet decided if I will read the related book Regulators.

I listened to this one through Audible and unfortunately King made a not so great narrator to the point it detracted from the story. I think i would have preferred to actually read this one.
  
Under My Skin
Under My Skin
Lisa Unger | 2018 | Thriller
10
6.3 (3 Ratings)
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Fabulous book - sucked me in from page one! Left with too many unanswered questions after her husband's murder, Poppy has been self-medicating and trying to regain some memory of what happened to her in those missing days following his funeral. A daily struggle, trying to tell what is real and what isn't, who she can and can't trust, having suddenly lost the man she loves. Highly recommend title; kept me on edge and I was heartbroken (yet hopeful) when the truth finally came out.