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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Moving Pictures in Books

Aug 11, 2017  
Moving Pictures
Moving Pictures
Terry Pratchett | 2005 | Fiction & Poetry
7
8.0 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
Discworld Spin on the Birth of Film
I'm a massive film geek, so I love this purely on the fact that it's about the introduction of Film and cinema - with a uniquely Discworld take of course. Like Going Postal, it's always great to read Terry Pratchett's take on a revolution or invention as it's always funny and unique. My main issue however with this book is that I think the characters may be a little weak. In most of the Discworld books, there is usually a loveable and strong main character or supporting character but Moving Pictures appears to be lacking in this area. Victor isn't a bad character, he just isn't strong or interesting enough to be the main protagonist. Gaspode and the Librarian were my favourite supporting characters although they sadly weren't around enough. Fortunately the story was good enough to carry itself, but you do notice the lack of strong characters.
  
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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) rated Guillotine in Tabletop Games

Oct 5, 2018  
Guillotine
Guillotine
1998 | Card Game, Humor, Napoleonic
9
8.1 (12 Ratings)
Tabletop Game Rating
Simple, Easy, Elegant, Dark Humor (1 more)
Theme works perfectly even if it's a bit distasteful
A great travel card game.
This game is a must when we travel. It plays elegantly two players, and even better with more players making it slightly more chaotic. The whole game is using the cards in your hand to manipulate the line in order to collect the most powerful heads from the guillotine during the french revolution. This game is super easy to teach: Here's your cards, read what they do.... each turn you can play one of them to change the line. After playing your card (or not) you get to collect the next "head" in line.

   For something this simple there really shouldn't be as much depth to this game, but it does have some good strategy, and really is a good time. Plus it's quick, we play a game in about 15 minutes.... perfect for having a drink on a balcony overlooking the ocean, and working on the line.
  
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David McK (3557 KP) rated The Philosophy Book in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
TP
The Philosophy Book
Will Buckingham | 2011
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
With over 2000 years of history, no book could seek to cover each and every aspect of philosophical thought.

What this does, instead, is to give a broad overview of the main works of the main thinkers (SOcrates, Plato, Descartes, Karl Marx, etc) of any particular era, with the book itself split into 6 main sections, as follows:

1) The Ancient World (700 BCE - 250 CE)
2) The Medieval World (250 - 1500)
3) Renaissance and the Age of Reason (1500 - 1750)
4) The Age of Revolution (1750 - 1900)
5) The Modern World (1900 -1950)
6) Contemporary Philosophy (1950 - present)

Nicely illustrated throughout, and with a little bit of history on the thinker themselves, this is a good intro for anybody interested in the subject. (Speaking personally, the closer the philosophy got to contemporary years, the less interesting I found it - I was more interested in the likes of Plato, Socrates and Descartes, for instance, than in Jacques Derrida).
  
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Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated Alia Tero: The Many Lives of Darren Datita in Books

Feb 23, 2020  
Alia Tero: The Many Lives of Darren Datita
Alia Tero: The Many Lives of Darren Datita
Lull Mengesha, Scott Spotson | 2017 | Dystopia, Science Fiction/Fantasy
7
6.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
The concept of this books was interesting. It’s the future. There are different “zones” people get moved to each rotation. At each zone they get different roles. The purpose I suppose is so people aren’t settled and therefore cannot plan or rebel the system. Reproduction is pretty regimented and planned. Throughout most of this book I thought we were following the main character through his different rotations and the various roles this has given him, bin man, orderly, dad. Towards the end he starts a revolution so he doesn’t have to rotate anymore and can be with the woman he loves. How he reaches this point it fairly interesting, but I feel like there could have been more of a build up to it. It seemed like a thing a lot of people were thinking about and his luck enabled him to put a plan in place. I don’t know, it felt like something was missing from the narrative.