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Ian McCulloch recommended The Best Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen in Music (curated)

 
The Best Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
The Best Of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
1975 | Folk, Metal, Pop, Rock
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I stand by ‘Suzanne’ as having the best lyric and melody of all time – it’s unbelievable, the guy’s a genius. All of the songs on the album are standout tracks. Bowie got me looking out the window and imagining the world of Ziggy Stardust, but what Cohen does is he turns me into him. I’d seen Bird On The Wire in a little cinema when I was 14, and went out and bought all his albums. It’s kind of like I’m with Suzanne or whoever. I don’t really like story-telling songs, but his lyrics are so simple and poetic; religious and laconic. It’s genius the way he writes lyrics, spinning things on their head, and by the fourth line you have to read it again and again. He flips it round - it’s what I do a lot. I always thought of him as the King of Hearts - Lou would be the King of Spades, the Velvets would be the Clubs, Bowie would be the Queen of Diamonds and Leonard would be the Hearts."

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Alice (117 KP) rated Circe in Books

Mar 3, 2021  
Circe
Circe
Madeline Miller | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
8.9 (17 Ratings)
Book Rating
I NEVER should have underestimated queen Madeline Miller. The Song of Achilles was the book that made me fall in love with reading and I think Circe has just gone and done the same. I started this back in December and then never picked it up again but I decided to start again from the start and it only took me a week to read. This book is a mammoth of a book. I'm usually a pretty quick reader but this requires thought and effort, something I clearly didn't have a lot of back in December.

I think my biggest issue with this book was that initially, I didn't connect with Circe much as a character (at least not as much as I connected with Patroclus) but as I read on and I journeyed with Circe, I grew with Circe and I began to see so much of myself in Circe.

screaming below...

<spoiler> SHE WAITED THOUSANDS OF YEARS TO FIND SOMEONE WHO LOVED HER AND SHE GAVE UP HER DIVINITY TO BE WITH HIM I AM A MESS</spoiler>
  
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William Friedkin recommended The Night of the Hunter (1955) in Movies (curated)

 
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
1955 | Drama, Mystery
9.0 (5 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I was twenty years old when I first saw it. It terrified me then, and still does.
 The preacher, played by Robert Mitchum, is the most frightening
 psychopath I’ve ever seen depicted. This is the only film directed by Charles Laughton, and its haunting, over-the-top storytelling is reminiscent of Laughton’s own character portrayals. The poetic, expressionistic images are by Stanley Cortez, a true American master who I fortunately came to know many years before his death. Stanley photographed, among others, The Magnificent Ambersons and The Three Faces of Eve, in which his lighting is equally unique. The disturbing orchestral score is by Walter Schumann, who also wrote the Dragnet theme and whose music underlines and drives the horror the way Bernard Herrmann’s does in Psycho. This is one of James Agee’s rare screenplays—another was The African Queen—and it captures America in the Depression as
 well as did his book, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, with photographs by Walker Evans. The film’s story is an American equivalent of the Brothers Grimm."

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David McK (3623 KP) rated Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10) in Books

Apr 18, 2021  
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
Small Favor (The Dresden Files, #10)
Jim Butcher | 2008 | Fiction & Poetry
7
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
In this, the 10th volume of the Dresden files, Jim Butcher brings the Knights of the Cross (particularly Michael Carpenter) - first introduced in Grave Peril, and their other-worldly foe, the Order of the Denarians - first introduced in Death Masks - back to the fore, via a favour owed to Mab, Queen of the Winter Court of faerie (first introduced in Summer Knight)

I think it's fair to say that one of the defining characteristics of this novel is the notion of family, and of friendship: when does one stop, and the other start? As it relies on previous events and (some) knowledge of the characters involved, this isn't really a good jumping-on point for anybody new to the series. For those who have read the previous, I actually felt this was one of the weaker novels: I just couldn't really get into this one as much as some of the others (but, without saying more, also think it will be interesting to see how Michael's role in the series progresses ...).