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Veronica Pena (690 KP) rated Rear Window (1954) in Movies

Apr 22, 2020  
Rear Window (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
1954 | Classics, Drama, Mystery
5
8.3 (23 Ratings)
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big let down.
I had such high hopes for this film. I saw the trailer, I've seen clips, I really thought, "This is the Alfred Hitchcock film that is going to restore my belief in his abilities." And alas. I was let down immensely. This film moves at a snail pace with a shit ending. I don't know how else to put it. I just hated every minute of it. I literally had to stop watching on multiple occasions because it was bad and I couldn't bear to hold on and wait for something to happen. Again, Hitchcock's blatant savior complex and overall hatred for women is obvious through this film and it's just gross. It doesn't sit well, it doesn't age well, and I just don't like him.

Yikes.
  
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Erika Kehlet (21 KP) rated Woman Without Fear in Books

Feb 21, 2018  
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Woman Without Fear
Jean-Philippe Touzeau | 2015
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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***I won a copy of this book in a First to Read giveaway on Goodreads***

The story is about a shy woman named Trinity Silverman who, for reasons that are never fully explained, suffers from constant fear and anxiety. Despite this, her job is to go to trade conferences, and give presentations trying to sell her firm's financial software. Her companion when she travels is a snail named Speedy that she keeps in a small Plexiglas box. On one such business trip to Las Vegas, she meets a man in the hotel bar who works for a pharmaceutical company. He offers her some pills that he has developed, promising that they will take away all of her fears.

I had a few issues with this book. Conversations were sometimes strange, but it was originally written in French and translated into English, so that could be the reason for the odd dialog. I also had a problem with the way Trinity befriended a hotel maid who allowed her to dig through the garbage to retrieve the her lost pills. I didn't find their interaction and fast friendship at all believable. Most of all though, I was surprised at the amount of time spent on the snail who is not even mentioned in the book blurb. This was the first time I had ever read a novel told (at least in part) from a snail's point of view.

It ended abruptly, and somewhat confusingly, but it was only part 1 of the story. There are 4 more books, but the author's style and the unusual subject matter just didn't grab my interest enough to make me want to keep reading to find out what happens.
  
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Sara Cox (1845 KP) rated The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in Books

Aug 5, 2020  
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Suzanne Collins | 2020 | Young Adult (YA)
6
7.8 (4 Ratings)
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I was really looking forward to this book when I heard the synopsis. A prequel to The Hunger Game. The development of Snow and Panam. There were two speeds in this book: snail paced and space rocket. It was really nice that the author linked in aspects of the subsequent books and their origins, for example the Hanging Tree song and where the name Katnis came from. And I thought the origins of Coriolanus Snow was really interesting, but throughout the book I found it difficult to see how these series of events turned him into the character we see in The Hunger Games. If anything the events should have led to his character being a rebel and the reason described in this narrative seemed lazy. This could have been brilliant but for me as there was no clear character development to the Snow we see in The Hunger Game, it killed it for me