Evil Under the Sun
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Set at the Jolly Roger, a posh vacation resort for the rich and famous on the southern coast of...
The Tomorrow People - Season 1
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Movie
When a plea bargain allows one of his family's murderers to go free, Clyde Shelton takes justice...
Hostel Part II (2007)
Movie Watch
Beth (Lauren German), Lorna (Heather Matarazzo) and Whitney (Bijou Phillips), three young American...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) in Movies
Feb 13, 2018
Peaceful alien yokels known as the Akira (told you so) are menaced by galactic despot on a tight timetable; farm boy is dispatched to recruit space mercenaries to help fend him off when he comes back. Ropy model-work courtesy of a young James Cameron is the film's biggest weakness (the best special effect is probably Sybil Danning's costume); rousing score from a young James Horner is a major plus. Robert Vaughn's performance here is just as good as the one in The Magnificent One - makes sense, as it's essentially the same one. Film has a lovely adventurous tone about it, isn't afraid to treat the audience with intelligence; much better than many other more prestigious sci-fi films of this period.
Secret Days: Codebreaking in Bletchley Park
Book
'Briggs is an engaging and amiable guide though the mysteries of wartime cryptography ...a...
Becs (244 KP) rated The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4) in Books
Aug 4, 2019
TRIGGER WARNINGS: death, murder, talk of suicide
Review:
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd follows detective Hercule Poirot as he investigates the murder of Roger Ackroyd. Ackroyd was murdered in his study that was locked, but not before he received a letter from the person that was blackmailing the widow he was having an affair with. This same widow was being blackmailed and rumors spread about her murdering her own husband. She ends up committing suicide because of these rumors and blackmailing.
King's Abbot is full of suspects but it's up to Hercule Poirot to figure out who is guilty of murdering Roger Ackroyd. He is aided by the village doctor and narrator of the story, James Sheppard and his sister, Caroline Sheppard.
I really wanted to love this novel, as it seemed really interesting. It didn't get interesting until the very ending and I wouldn't recommend reading this book first if you've never read an Agatha Christie novel. This was the first ever novel I've read by Agatha Christie and I'm just not really bothered to read any more novels by Agatha Christie.
The story was somewhat interesting, but the execution wasn't there. I wasn't able to guess the killer, so that was a fun little plot twist. But the ending came abruptly and the overall story lacked. It lacked that punch that most mysteries have. There was hardly any development and background for both the story and the characters.
I listened to the audiobook version of this so I wasn't sure if there wasn't any grammatical and/or spelling errors. The narrator was a bit monotone but was otherwise a decent speaker. I forced myself through this, when all I wanted to do was DNF it. It lacked, was confusing, and was rather boring. I did not enjoy this and was disappointed with the overall story.
"The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me."
Fedegraphica: A Graphic Biography of the Genius of Roger Federer
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Go Tell the Bees that I am Gone
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Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them...
Miss Palmer's Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
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In 1847, seventeen-year-old Miss Ellen Palmer had the world at her feet. A debutante at the start of...