Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology
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This collection of classic garden writing celebrates the garden as a place of solace in a busy...
The Yield: Kafka's Atheological Reformation
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The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time,...
Devil Said Bang
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The fourth eagerly awaited Sandman Slim novel from Richard Kadrey While ruling the denizens of...
Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Dead Island: The Book in Books
Jul 21, 2020
Dead Island: The Book is the novelisation of the video game of the same name (Dead Island).
The first couple of chapters introduce us to the four main protagonists of the game: Sam B, Logan and Purna meet on the plane one the way to Banoi and Xian Mei is the receptionist who books them in to the hotel. The we are treated to the first of many scenes that will be familiar the anyone who has played the game, a concert with Sam B as the main act, followed up by a zombie outbreak.
The story follows the four main protagonists and the people they meet as they travel around the island in search for help, a cure or a way off the island. On their way they must work out who they can trust and how to deal with those they can't.
Dead Island the book almost follows the first game but not riptide so the ending is slightly different, there also seemed to be more guns but that may just be because the narrative is more compressed in the novel as there are a lot less side quests.
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology
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A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Moana (2016) in Movies
Nov 3, 2020
Another overly-familiar, word-for-word rehash of *all* the exact same clichΓ©s from the Disney Machine with no real profundity or nuance to back up the convention. I mean even the title character the movie is named after has about as much depth as a piece of blank construction paper. That being said however, this is - what I can only describe as - terminally cute. In spite of all its heavily trod Disney-fying and formulaic cheese it's just so damn irresistible: eye-watering in how visually breathtaking it is with a handful of lively bops from Lin-Manuel Miranda who - politics aside - rarely ever misses a beat in the musical department. Treads water (no pun intended) for the first part with all the parroting of like 10 other movies from the company practically verbatim until the charming Maui shows up, who still represents the same sorts of tropes but complete with a clever design gimmick via the moving tattoos and gargantuan, blocky proportions; plus come on he's voiced by Dwayne Johnson - you can't *not* love him. The last half hour is more or less a wondrous technical showcase for peddling this beautiful, paradise-like animation and let me tell you it's a sight to see. Very funny too. Should hate it but don't, well done. π‘π°π°π΅π°π±πͺπ’ smokes it, though.
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Tamarillo Tart (Southern Lights #2)
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CASSIDY MARTIN is a country boy through and through. He loves his horses, his Lord of the Rings...
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The Memory Theater
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From the award-winning fantasy author of Amatka and Jagannath --a fantastical tour-de-force about...
Cooking Fever
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