Our Common Seas: Coasts in Crisis
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Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked...
Ross (3284 KP) rated Emperor of Thorns in Books
Sep 13, 2017
Again, the pace at which events of the past are revealed and their implications for the present timeline emerge is just right, allowing enough to be worked out in advance by the eager reader.
I didn't much like the present timeline story, it really was just a long dragged out roadtrip and didn't add much to the overall plot. Luckily enough focus was given to Jorg's adventures through the radioactive fallout zones and Afrique that this didn't detract from enjoyment too much.
Once more, the introduction of elements of the distant past (our future) was a risk worth taking for the author, as it helps explain so much of the mysterious yet familiar world we are travelling through.
The ending felt slightly rushed for me and the final encounter should really have been given much more attention, but I was happy enough with the conclusion and intend to revisit this world for the Red Queen's War trilogy in due course.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Funnier than Psycho...more chilling than Jeeves Takes Charge...shorter than War and Peace...The Long...
The Dead Lake
Andrew Bromfield and Hamid Ismailov
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LONG-LISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE 2015 ------- LONG-LISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL...
Rock Engineering Risk
John A. Hudson and Xia-Ting Feng
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This book provides a new, necessary and valuable approach to the consideration of risk in...
The Bulletproof Diet
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When his excess fat started causing brain fog and food cravings sapped his energy and willpower,...
Digital Geiger Counter - Prank Radiation Detector
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Digital Geiger Counter is the best "fake geiger counter" prank on the iTunes App Store. Tilt and...
Dark Titan Journey: Sanctioned Catastrophe
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The ultimate prepper's adventure--The Journey begins here. Nathan Owens was just topping up his tank...
Radium and the Secret of Life
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Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians,...
David McK (3414 KP) rated Spider-Man (2002) in Movies
Oct 3, 2021
So that's back before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a thing (Iron Man was '08).
It's also not long after the twin Towers disaster, which - I believe - had to be edited out of this film.
This was also the first big-screen take on Spider-Man, with a mainly 20 something cast all playing characters in their late teens, headlined by Tobey Maguire as Peter Parker/Spider-Man and by Kirsten Dunst's redhead Mary-Jane Watson.
The early portions of this movie basically retells Spider-Mans origins story (although, here, Parker is bitten by a Genetically modified Spider instead of a Radioactive one and does not need web-shooters: they come out of his actual wrists), complete with the death of Uncle Ben who gets to utter the immortal lines to Parker that 'with great power comes great responsibility'.
Yes, Stan Lee makes a 'blink and you'll miss it' cameo.
Yes, the soundtrack owes a fair deal to that of 1989s 'Batman'
Yes, the Green Goblin costume does look a bit like a Power Rangers reject.
Yes, the film still holds up nearly 20 year later: there's a reason that 'upside-down' kiss is now iconic!
(Oh, and TK Simmons J Jonah Jameson? *Chef's Kiss*.)