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Ok finally played this one. If century spice road feels like splendor to you. This will be a better version. Now you move around a board “sailing” island to island setting up markets with trading posts. You have to set up combos in order and also claim them before other people. But moving more than one space costs you resources so it has to be worth it. There is very little blocking so it’s mostly just a racing game. Around making conversions and trades. Working toward a goal and beating the other players to it. I liked it.

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The Marinated Meeple (1853 KP) Aug 5, 2018

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Akward (448 KP) Aug 5, 2018

Even though it's nothing like Catan, the art/hexes/water make me feel like it's Catan

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Otway93 (580 KP) rated Clockwise (1986) in Movies

Oct 21, 2019 (Updated Oct 21, 2019)

Clockwise (1986)

1986 | Action, Comedy

6.7

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Excellent, but hasn't aged well.

Not one of John Cleese's best films, but a good one nonetheless.

Clockwise is a very typical road-trip comedy, but from before everybody was doing it.

The plot can be summed up as A-B, hijinx along the way etc., as I said: very typical. But as this is John Cleese it stands apart from the typical road trip comedy, with classic British humour (not for everyone, but I love it), and a protagonist not unlike Cleese's Basil Fawlty character.

Unfortunately the film hasn't aged well, most of the predicaments could be easily solved with modern technology, and the film certainly shows its age.

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Electric Vehicle Batteries: Moving from Research Towards Innovation: Reports of the PPP European Green Vehicles Initiative

Emma Briec and Beate Muller

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This edited volume presents research results of the PPP European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI),...

Nick Cave recommended Here I am in Books (curated)

Here I am

Jonathan Safran Foer | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

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"“I fled through Jonathan Safran Foer’s Here I Am and halfway through I was in tears and again a bit further on, more tears – as a father, as a son and as a husband. The last book that did this was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and in some way this book is not dissimilar – there is a family in crisis and there is an apocalypse – but The Road is all darkness with brief spasms of light, and although Here I Am is also a deeply melancholy book about a doomed family, it is wickedly funny, so that you are laughing too, as it all goes to hell. A book with an enormous and furious heart. I loved it.” -NC"

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Susie Bright recommended Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) in Movies (curated)

Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

1971 | Classics, Drama

7.5

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"Color me gone, baby. I wouldn’t have seen this movie at twelve. I wouldn’t have understood anyone who didn’t have a mission, a point. But at nineteen, my face was gravel from “points.” I was ready for a whole lot of steel nothing, an empty road at high speeds, an existential needle guiding my arms. I knew little or nothing about automobiles, but I fell in love with this road trip, and made a couple myself, LA to Detroit, Tijuana to Spokane, no sleep, all little white pills and mud coffee. I never saw anyone as beautiful as James Taylor and Dennis Wilson passing me on the left, but I was ready to follow."

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Brother and Sister in Books

Oct 7, 2020

When Nathalie is interviewed about how being adopted effected her life, although initially she denies that it made any difference to her, she suddenly discovers a need to find her birth parents, and insists that her brother David (also adopted) do the same. This takes them down a road that neither of them were ever prepared to travel, and yet, are both, inexplicably drawn towards.

With "Brother and Sister" Joanna Trollope gives us a parallel study in human nature, but she does so with such simple artistry that you'll find yourself compelled to read this straight through. You can read my full review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2013/11/09/adopted-siblings-road-to-discovery/