Lisa Yuskavage recommended A Bend in the River in Books (curated)
Kevin Phillipson (10017 KP) rated Escape From Alcatraz (1979) in Movies
Jan 8, 2023 (Updated Jan 8, 2023)
Descender, Vol. 4: Orbital Mechanics
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Tim-21, Telsa and Quon finally escape the Machine Moon and head out on a quest to find the ancient...
robots space future
Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Crawl (2019) in Movies
Jul 30, 2019
Crawl is a classic creature feature and really works, the small cast helps portray the looming danger and the combination of the alligators and rising flood waters make the threat very believable and the yappy dog is used to enhance the tension as you find yourself waiting for it to be eaten.
And that’s it, Crawl has a simple premise, a simple story and is an hour and half of tension, jump scares, people being eaten and, oh yes one yappy dog.
The Borderlands: The Complete Trilogy
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Dale longs to escape the school bullies who torment her for being different. But when a dark...
Young Adult Fantasy
Colin Campbell (25 KP) rated Suicide Squad (2016) in Movies
Apr 28, 2019
Rather than watching it expecting happy shiny marvel and the dark Justice League stories approach with an open mind. You will be pleasantly surprised
David McK (3396 KP) rated First Sword (Roman Arena, #3) in Books
Jan 30, 2019
Unlike the last entry, however, Macro plays more of a role in this story, which is set in and around the running of a lanista (Gladiator 'school') rather than in an Arena. Again, the culmination of the novel is a fight between two Gladiators: this time, though, they are fighting in the grounds of the lanista (one for survival, the other to escape) rather than in the Arena for the amusement of the mob ...
Against a Dark Background
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Sharrow was once the leader of a personality-attuned combat team in one of the sporadic little...
The Last Shadow
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Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series...
Politics of the Asylum
Book
Nathan Finewax is a cleaner in a hospital steadily falling apart, working on a ward where staff...