
Stone of Tears (Sword of Truth, #2)
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In Wizard's First Rule, Richard Cypher's world was turned upside down. Once a simple woods guide,...

The Periodic Table
Primo Levi and Raymond Rosenthal
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Primo Levi's The Periodic Table is a collection of short stories that elegantly interlace the...

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated #Alive (2020) in Movies
Oct 17, 2020
#Alive is defiantly a film of 3 parts, the first part focuses solely on Oh Joon-woo and his attempts at survival alone in his apartment as he struggles to cope with the zombies, running out of food and the lose of his family. The portrayal of Isolation and loneliness is very well done, leading up to what could almost be a very short film.
Then Oh Joon-woo meets Kim Yoo-bin, another survivor who lives in the apartments across the street from him. The isolation continues as the two find ways to communicate and survive but now there is hope.
The two are eventually forced from their apartments and have to meet up and move up as they try to find somewhere safe to survive.
#Alive is a film without a big main cast and this helps the sense of isolation and loneliness which is only increased by the fact that they spend most of the film separated by a street full of the undead.
Surprisingly #Alive manages to avoid becoming a love story. Normally when you have two survivors who meet in films like this they fall for each other and, at least part of the film is taken up by their relationship. However #Alive doesn't do this, Oh Joon-woo and Kim Yoo-bin obviously become friends but they are too busy surviving but their relationship doesn't overtake the main point of the film, survival.
There are moments of tension and relief in the film and they work well making #Alive a different type of film than a lot of other zombie films, including the other Korean zombie blockbuster, Train to Busan.

Death Road to Canada
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Big new update, featuring a lot of new content! Includes new music, weapons, locations, characters,...
Virtual Villagers 3
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Villagers: The Secret City is the third chapter in the award-winning Virtual Villagers series from...

Virtual Villagers 5 for iPad
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Virtual Villagers: New Believers is the fifth chapter in the award-winning Virtual Villagers series...

ABC – Live TV & Full Episodes
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Catch up on the latest episodes* of your favorite ABC shows, watch on-the-go, and stream live** TV -...

Virtual Villagers 3 for iPad
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Virtual Villagers: The Secret City is the third chapter in the award-winning Virtual Villagers...

Virtual Villagers 4
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Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life is the fourth chapter in the award-winning Virtual Villagers...

ClareR (5950 KP) rated The Glass Hotel in Books
Aug 27, 2021
However, this book isn’t just about Ponzi schemes. It’s a character driven book, and there are a fair few of them.
Vincent was a fascinating character - she starts her life in a remote village in Canada, only reachable by boat. When it looks like she’s losing her way, she gets a job at a hotel and meets Jonathan Alkaitis - the organiser of the Ponzi scheme. Vincent is completely unconcerned at where the money she spends is coming from, she just spends it, lives in their luxury apartments, living the life she never had as a child. When that money is gone, Vincent moves on - she’s a survivor, and I really like that about her.
I couldn’t believe the length of Alkaitis’ prison sentence - I’m assuming 140 years or more is normal for a fraud of this scale. He doesn’t cope well. He has visions, sees ghosts of the people whose lives he destroyed. This was really eerie: were they real? Was it his imagination?
Leon Prevant shows what happens to a lot of older people when they have no income: he becomes one of the nomadic people, travelling in a camper-van from job to job. No savings, no home. The fear as they get older, of illness or infirmity.
So yes, I really enjoyed this. I liked that it’s completely different to Station 11, and I’m very glad I read it!