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BobbiesDustyPages (1259 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books

Jul 21, 2017

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry

8.9

(161 Ratings)

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A little to much '80s information dumping (0 more)

So Totally Awesome

At this point I've read this book four times and can see myself reading it another ten times and I would still find it such a breath of fresh air.

The plot is interesting and fun and honestly you gets so invested in the story and it wonderful characters that it's almost impossible to put the book down.

On top of all the '80 nostalgia you have a truly wonderful and heartfelt story where you can't help with root for the underdog Wade throught the whole thing.

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Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated Swing Time in Books

Jul 24, 2017

Swing Time

Zadie Smith | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

(1 Ratings)

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Soul-moving realism

This is probably my favourite Zadie Smith novel, deeply touching with characters bursting to life out of the pages. Hitting on themes of racial identity and pop culture, it is a brilliant contemporary take on what young adults are currently experiencing. From cultural appropriation to the effects of globalisation all summed up in the relationship of one young woman and her peers.

Her relationship with her mother is one of generational divide while with her friend Tracy is one of class divide. The protagonist's character is the epitome of confusion and attempting to find a place in the world. Well worth the praise.

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The Craggus (360 KP) rated The Muppet Movie (1979) in Movies

Jun 5, 2019

The Muppet Movie (1979)

1979 | Family, Musical

8.4

(18 Ratings)

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It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to raise the curtain on The Muppet Movie's 40th Anniversary tonight!

If you were born between the 1970s and 1990s, it’s almost impossible to imagine a world without “The Muppets”. From “Sesame Street” to “The Muppet Show”, they formed one of the cornerstones of childhood pop culture and while they have endured, they’ve yet to recapture the dizzying heights of their late 1970s/ 1980s dominance. That’s thanks in large part to the irresistible amiability and boundless charm of this, their first full-length movie, released in the UK 40 years ago today...

FULL REVIEW: http://bit.ly/CraggusTheMuppetMovie

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The Cracked Podcast

6.3 (4 Ratings) Rate It

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The Cracked Podcast is an extension of the editorial team discussions that shape the brilliant...

JAG and The Rabbi

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Podcast

JAG and The Rabbi take a look at sports, technology, pop culture, news, and more through a Jewish...

Gift: The Art of David Flores

David Flores

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GIFT: The Art of David Flores is an in-depth review of Flores' career in the arts from skateboard...

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

7.8 (11 Ratings) Rate It

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In 1988, a groundbreaking new group revolutionizes music and pop culture, changing and influencing...

Keegan McHargue recommended Eating Raoul (1982) in Movies (curated)

Eating Raoul (1982)

1982 | Comedy, Crime

(0 Ratings)

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"This is just one of those movies that leaves you feeling queasy all over. Eating Raoul plays on all the stereotypical shock/schlock clichés typical of so-called B culture, which at the time (the early 1980s) was also being probed by Paul Bartel’s fellow Angelenos Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw (and perhaps further up the coast by the Kuchar brothers), who were also fascinated with and inspired by the prudish 1950s. Is there a moral here? Does there need to be? Why, exactly, is this film in the Criterion Collection? All questions better to put out of your mind when you pop it in."

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