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Selected Poems and Songs

Robert Burns and Robert P. Irvine

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'The Poetic Genius of my Country...bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Dog Soldiers (2002) in Movies

Feb 12, 2018

Dog Soldiers (2002)

2002 | Action, Horror

8.2

(26 Ratings)

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Raucous and highly derivative low-budget werewolf movie. Director Neil Marshall went on to bigger and somewhat better movies, but this is a decent calling card.

A group of British squaddies on a training exercise run into a pack of werewolves in the Scottish highlands (as happens all the time, I expect); they take refuge in a remote farmhouse. What follows is largely composed of bits lifted from Evil Dead and Assault on Precinct 13, done with a great deal of enthusiasm by all concerned. Part of the fun of this kind of movie is being able to guess what's going to happen next; you may well be able to do so even if you haven't seen the same films that Marshall has. Well-staged gory action; rather impressive werewolf suits considering the low budget.

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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) rated Mary's the Name in Books

Jun 21, 2019

Mary's the Name

Ross Sayers | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

9.0

(1 Ratings)

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Wee Mary is a great character. (0 more)

Predictable plot. Should be young adult novel. (0 more)

Good book from a new author

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This was my first book of the year and it didn't disappoint. Mary is a great wee character that the reader is drawn to from page 1. This is a novel about an innocent child and a corrupt granddad - a diamond of a man who loves his granddaughter dearly. The author did a great job of writing from Mary's point of view when the character is so young. My only criticism would be the explaining of Scottish words - trust your reader. Otherwise, it was great. The plot was brilliant and I even had a gasp, right in the middle, but I won't spoil it for anyone. Well done Ross, looking forward to the next one.

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James Koppert (2698 KP) rated Where the World Ends in Books

Nov 3, 2019 (Updated Nov 3, 2019)

Where the World Ends

Geraldine McCaughrean | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics, Thriller

5.7

(3 Ratings)

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McCaughrean does an incredible job here. She heard a true story of a group of boys and men in the 1800s who go to a 'stack' to farm birds. The stack is a juttering jagged rock rising from the cold Scottish seas, a nasty place to be, so they plan to stay for a few days and then they hope to be collected. Although they weren't. McCaughrean then tried to imagine what happened to them next and what we get is an incredible well imagined narrative of hardship and survival filled with hope and love and triumph and turmoil. One of those novels which gives you a piece of history which was unknown and hard to imagine and at the same time makes you ask yourself what you would do in the same situation.