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Caribbean (Cuba, Dominican, Puerto Rico, Haiti) offline map, guide, weather, hotels. Free GPS navigation.

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100% Offline Map & Guide. Over 2 million hikers use our apps! off.GUIDE is a mobile app that helps...

Universal Translator

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Universal Translator is the revolutionary translator which allows you to chat with someone who do...

The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories

Nikolay Gogol

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Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and...

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Use this cool talking translator to instantly translate any typed or spoken text into any of 88...

Annie Chanse (15 KP) rated Poe in Books

Dec 19, 2017

Poe

J. Lincoln Fenn | 2013 | Horror, Science Fiction/Fantasy

9.0

(2 Ratings)

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I really liked this book quite a bit FOR THE MOST PART. It was incredibly well-written, and it was quite unique. It was paranormal, but not cheesy, pg-13 YA paranormal. This combined Russian history and demons and seraphs and Rasputin and love and demented siblings and Bohemian artist types and etc. etc. etc. It was a lot of fun. However, the ending was a bit less than satisfying. I'm not sure if there is going to be a second book... by the way it ended, I'm assuming there will be, but I wasn't EXPECTING a second book, and as such, the ending really disappointed me. It didn't tie up the main freaking plot point or several of the smaller ones. That just bugs me to no end. However, it still was a really good book. Or at least, it WILL BE, as long as there is a second book to help me finish up the story the author started in this one. :-D

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Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated A Dog's Heart in Books

Sep 2, 2017

Fabulous Russian tale about human ethics

What a fantastic satirical book. Think about crossing Frankenstein with My Fair Lady, and then setting it in Soviet Russia. This book is about how human beings are essentially more enslaved to systems than a dog is. A doctor decides to do a science experiment, putting the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into a stray dog to see the results. Instead they end up with a man wolf, who is rude and obnoxious, and demands the same rights as a human being. No sooner is he a man, he is forced to be registered and take part in rebuilding the nation after tsarist Russia. However, as a man he's still treated as a lowly pauper or a dog by the doctor. So who is more free - the dog having to raid bins to search for scraps or the one owned by the doctor and the government? Fabulous little tale.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Most Dangerous Game (1932) in Movies

Mar 25, 2020

The Most Dangerous Game (1932)

1932 | Classics, Drama, Horror

8.0

(6 Ratings)

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(Can't see that movie about people being hunted for entertainment as all the cinemas are shut, so went for this instead (the daddy of the genre).) Much mimicked pulp adventure movie. Big-game hunter survives a shipwreck but pitches up on the private island of an insane Russian aristo who hunts people for sport.

Slots very nicely into the development of early-30s genre cinema - the premise vaguely recalls Dracula, while many of the key personnel would go on to make King Kong the following year. Still stands up well as an adventure movie in many ways; above average script, some rousing set pieces, and an enjoyably extravagant performance from Leslie Banks as the bad guy. The short running time does count against it though (the hunt only gets underway in the final third of the movie). One of the progenitors of the modern action blockbuster, and a fine movie in its own right.