Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals: The Idyllic Club Grounds That Will Never Again Host the World's Best Players
Book
Following the huge success of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds, Chris Arnot goes in search of the...
Mapping the Pitch Football Formations Through the Ages
Book
This book takes an informal and entertaining look at some of the most influential football coaches...
The St Ives Artists: A Biography of Place and Time
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St Ives is unique in the story of modern art in Britain - and perhaps anywhere in the world. No...
Are We There Yet?: Enid Blyton's Complete Family Series Collection
Book
Join, Enid Blyton, one of the world's best storytellers on six fun-filled family holiday adventures!...
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume eight
Book
A town is held hostage by an unholy bargain made by some of the inhabitants; a party game on...
Local Girl Missing
Book
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SISTERS - ONE OF THE BEST SELLING DEBUTS OF 2015 - COMES A TENSE...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2593 KP) rated A Treasure to Die For in Books
Jun 16, 2021 (Updated Jun 16, 2021)
The book took me a little while to get into. Alex plays a big part in the story, and some of the chapters are even from her point of view. I wasn’t sure how I felt about that or her character at the beginning, but she grew on me. I also had trouble keeping the suspects straight early on since sometimes they were mentioned by first name and other times last name. That, too, became less of an issue as the book progressed. I did like the series regulars, and there are hints at some secrets from the past that I’m curious to learn more about. The main mystery was strong with lots of lies for Rick to look past to find the truth. Being a bed and breakfast, we get a couple of delicious sounding breakfast bread recipes at the end. Hopefully, I can book a return visit to this bed and breakfast soon.
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Humanoids from the Deep (1980) in Movies
Oct 13, 2020
It has a lot of issues - it's pacing is off for a start. A lot of the narrative focuses on a new fishing cannery in the seaside community of Noyo, a plot point that of course turns out to be completely irrelevant. It has some absurdly choppy editing - it has scenes that take place at the same time, in the same location, from different character perspectives, that inexplicably take place at different times of day. The big final scene has a sudden shot of an earlier part of the movie for no apparent reason other than saving money and time.
The same scene also has horrendously obvious looped sound editing. It's incredibly messy.
And yet, its still way more entertaining than it deserves to be. The mutant fish monster things look ridiculous of course, but it's the kind of hammy and gratuitous man-in-a-rubber-suit creature horror you just don't see these days.
There's plenty of gore and the usual Roger Corman endorsed nudity that sold these kind of films.
It has a respectable cast as well, including Doug McClure, Vic Morrow, Ann Turkel and Anthony Pena. It's a far cry from the copious amounts of teenagers usually associated with the genre during this era, and lends the film a sense of class amongst all the silliness.
Humanoids from the Deep is a film not to be taken seriously. That way, it's a pretty good time despite it's many flaws, and is an entertaining enough creature feature.
Rising Craft - A Game for Sandbox Building
Games and Entertainment
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On Sale. Original $6.99. Rising Craft is a sandbox building game that gives players limitless...
ClareR (6253 KP) rated Red Clocks in Books
Mar 18, 2018 (Updated Mar 18, 2018)
I loved the flow of the language in this novel, I loved the personalities of the characters who were shown to be both loving and spiteful, selfish and generous and strong and weak. Finally, I loved how Zumas has chosen a topic that is all too current in her own country and many others around the world. This is a great book, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if it won awards. It has been criticised for riding on the coat tails of The Handmaids Tale, but I really don't think that this is the case. It is a great piece of work in its own right. This is a topic, though, that is very much on people's minds. And rightly so.
I've seen some very mixed reviews about this novel: it seems to attract extremes of hatred/ love, and I'm not overly surprised. I think the best thing to do, is to probably go and read it!
Many thanks to Netgalley and the publisher, Little, Brown and Company for the opportunity to read this!
