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"Any collection of John Cheever’s short stories. I’m not a big fan of much of what passes itself off as literary fiction, finding it to be insipid, self-indulgent, plotless, and pointless. However, Cheever could write about everyday life and make it fascinating. His psychological insights are deft, never heavy-handed, and sometimes, as in his story “The Enormous Radio,” he veers into some really strange territory."

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William Fichtner recommended The Deer Hunter (1978) in Movies (curated)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

1978 | Drama, War

8.3

(23 Ratings)

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"Deer Hunter — the human experience was just so pointed; their journeys were so difficult, as life is sometimes. I remember after seeing it, walking down the street — I actually went with a girl on a date and saw The Deer Hunter, and we left the theater and walked for like an hour and nobody said anything; we were just kind of stunned about that."

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Chloe (778 KP) rated Mother Loves Me in Books

Mar 24, 2021 (Updated Mar 28, 2021)

Mother Loves Me

Abby Davies | 2020 | Thriller

6.0

(1 Ratings)

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Clever story (2 more)

Thrilling

Haunting

Rushed (1 more)

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Rushed but thrilling

This is thrilling and a real page turner but it did feel rushed in places. I like the main character and found the use of the term mother quite haunting.

Sometimes the dialogue felt repetitive and was used over the top when building tension.

Having said that, I couldn't put it down and enjoyed the story.

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Donald Glover recommended American Dad! - Season 1 in TV (curated)

"I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but American Dad is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there. Sometimes it's really subtle - there is one with a black leprechaun [O'Shamus McPherson] where a mosquito bites him and he says, "Ugh, they love me". It was such a weird joke, like something my uncle would say."

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Jason Williamson recommended track Patience by Guns N' Roses in Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses in Music (curated)

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Patience by Guns N' Roses

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"Brilliant melody. Lovely, swishy swashy song. Again, the lyrics are a bit cheesy, and sometimes you get the impression with Axl Rose that there's a really American 80s high school drama thing going on. All my mates were sucked into those Molly Ringwald films. We were all brought up on them, and some of the lyrics remind me of that. It's a really good tune."

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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) created a post

Oct 6, 2020

I was thinking of taking a break from movie reviews due to my local Cineworld closing thursday. When I joined smashbomb two years ago it was to share my love of movies and now due to covid 19 I feel sometimes what's the point anymore. Don't worry I'm not leaving which I would never doo there's plenty of reviews still to come from me .