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A Fatal Frame of Mind (Psych, #4)
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Shawn and Gus get involved in a murder at the Santa Barbara art museum and wind up on the run with Gus' old art professor. Lots of fun, as you'd expect from the franchise, but the art history lessons got a little long winded, leaving the climax way too rushed.

Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-review-psych-fatal-frame-of-mind.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
  
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Joyce Carol Oates recommended Version Control in Books (curated)

 
Version Control
Version Control
Dexter Palmer | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
7.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"Version Control is perhaps the strangest fictional work of appropriated voices and subjects. It’s set in a surreal near future — or several near futures — as well as in several pasts. Though issues of race play virtually no role in the stories, one character, an African-American physicist, recalls dropping out of a writing course because the professor thought he should be mining his heritage instead of inventing science fiction."

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Tunde Adebimpe recommended Alphaville (1965) in Movies (curated)

 
Alphaville (1965)
Alphaville (1965)
1965 | Mystery, Sci-Fi
8.3 (3 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"Lo-fi sci-fi detective noir from 1965. Special agent Lemmy Caution is sent on a secret mission to Alphaville, a city run by an evil professor who’s built a supercomputer that specializes in mind control and strips the city’s inhabitants of all real emotion. No real special effects or futuristic props. So lean. So clean. Also, any time someone can potentially destroy a supercomputer with a poem, I’m down."

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X-Men: First Class (2011)
X-Men: First Class (2011)
2011 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
This is definitely my favorite X-Men movie, though, I am total trash for anything with James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. They both did well as Professor X and Magneto. Personally, vengeful Magneto is my favorite Magneto. I liked the vibe, and the story line. Hugh Jackman's cameo was hilarious. Kevin Bacon was excellent as the villain. The only thing I can live without is another film where they don't give Mystique clothing.
  
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Katherine McIntyre (105 KP) Mar 5, 2018

Looove that movie!

BP
Backstage Pass (Sinners on Tour, #1)
6
8.0 (4 Ratings)
Book Rating
I don't quite know what to think about this book. Sinners reminded me an awful lot of Avenged Sevenfold at times throughout but in terms of plot there wasn't really much if one.

It was predominantly sex - in many different forms - with a bit of difference thrown in every now and again. The whole book was basically sex, even Myrna was a professor of human sexuality.

I'd have given it more stars if it was more of a story.
  
Inferno (Film Tie In)
Inferno (Film Tie In)
Dan Brown | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Yes, I've read all of Dan Brown's books (including this one)

No, I've never really got the love for them all.

The latest of his novels to receive a film tie-in, with Tom Hanks reprising his role as Harvard symbologist Professor Robert Langdon, this time in a race against time to decipher the clues that will lead him to the source of a biological weapon that is set to explode and release a deadly plague into the world.
  
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ClareR (5589 KP) rated Ghost Wall in Books

Feb 11, 2019  
Ghost Wall
Ghost Wall
Sarah Moss | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
A disturbing look at family dynamics.
This novella really packs a punch. Its uncomfortable subject matter is presented in an uncomfortable setting. Slivie, her checkout assistant mum and bus driver dad, spend their summer holidays recreating life in Iron Age Britain, along with an archaeology professor and some of his students. Silvie's dad is a very keen, knowledgable amateur archaeologist, and is well respected by the professor. However, he is an unhappy man. He seems to hate the way he lives, and takes his frustrations (physically) out on his wife and daughter. I actually thought Silvie was far younger than it transpired that she was, purely because of the way her father spoke to and treated her.
The book becomes darker as it goes on, as we see more of Silvie's dads' outdated ideas of masculinity and a woman's station in life, and the conclusion is simply stunning.
This is well worth a read in my opinion.
Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my copy of this book to read and fairly review.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) in Movies

Mar 4, 2018 (Updated Mar 4, 2018)  
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
1955 | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
7
6.8 (4 Ratings)
Movie Rating
The original Hammer horror movie; the studio did actually know how to spell 'experiment', but the title refers to the 'X' certificate that all self-respecting horror films had at the time this was made. Astronaut comes back from space a changed man; the rest of his crew mysteriously vanished - just what went on out there? Professor Q must figure it out before the mutation afflicting the astronaut reaches its final form.

Actually really, really tame as a horror movie by modern standards, obviously, but also of great historical interest as the birth of a legend in British cinema. One can't help suspecting the TV show was a lot more thoughtful, but this still works pretty well as an SF movie, and an influential one at that, and the juxtaposition of B-movie SF ideas and images with post-war Britain is interesting. Imported American star Brian Donlevy is not very good as Professor Q (original writer Nigel Kneale claimed he was on the sauce all the time); Richard Wordsworth is mesmerising as the doomed astronaut.
  
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
1967 | Horror, Sci-Fi
9
7.7 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
The best of the Quatermass films keeps all the unsettling ideas of Nigel Kneale's original TV scripts and adds Hammer's talent for coming up with smart casting and polished production values. Weird projectile turns up buried under London; the authorities initially assume it's an unexploded bomb from the Second World War, but the presence of fossil ape skeletons in and around the object indicates otherwise, as does a history of hauntings in the area going back hundreds of years. Professor Quatermass begins to suspect that this is a relic of a highly unusual alien invasion that happened before man had even evolved...

Pretty much a perfect fusion of horror and science fiction, giving a convincing extraterrestrial rationale for various paranormal and demonic phenomena; thoughtful and disturbing rather than actually scary. Andrew Keir rocks the joint as Professor Q but is well-supported by everyone else. The sequence in which London is transformed in the final reel is also very well done. Sets the standard for intelligent British SF movies; rather influential in its own way, too.
  
Professor Daddy: A Small Town Age Play Romance
Professor Daddy: A Small Town Age Play Romance
Rene Webb | 2023 | Contemporary, Romance
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
PROFESSOR DADDY is the first book in the Cocktails and Colouring series, and we are introduced to a group of friends who like being littles. None of them has a Daddy although none of them would mind! In fact, Daddies are closer than they realise.

I enjoyed this story and found it to be a light read. Nothing delved too deeply, whether it was the connection between our main two, their DD/lg relationship, or indeed, even the stalker. I was left with unanswered questions at the end that I really would have preferred to be answered.

Saying that, I look forward to returning to this series for the next book. Maybe my questions will be answered there. Professor Daddy is a sweet read and I would definitely recommend it, especially for those who are dipping in their toes!

** same worded review will appear elsewhere **

* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book; the comments here are my honest opinion. *

Merissa
Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
May 17, 2023