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Southern Today (21 KP) rated Ready Player One in Books

Nov 7, 2017  
Ready Player One
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry
9
8.9 (161 Ratings)
Book Rating
Ernest Cline has written something, alright.

If you are not into geeky things, just turn back now. I enjoyed this book for all the references, but the storyline itself was meh.

The writing was excellent as well, but, set in a dystopian not-so-distant future where everyone turns to OASIS, a simulation, to escape the reality of the world… Not a fan. Why don’t they try to fix it?

The main character, Wade, is on a quest (along with everyone else) to find the Easter egg that the creator of OASIS left in game after he died. The winner? Gets his fortune and the company that made the game.

Yeah, there is a prize for you! If you enjoyed Monty Python, read this book. If you are into all the geeky things, read this book. It is an interesting journey and one that I did enjoy.
  
    Cold Blood

    Cold Blood

    Andy McNab

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    Out on the ice, polar nears aren't the only natural born killers. Nick Stone is suffering. The two...

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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Aoléon The Martian Girl (Part 3) in Books

Apr 9, 2019  
Aoléon The Martian Girl (Part 3)
Aoléon The Martian Girl (Part 3)
Brent LeVasseur | 2019
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I know children love action and adventures. Well this book sure has it. I truly know it got a space in it as well. It wonderful. Pictures are done well. They seem to capture you to look at them. Aoleon and Gilbert find themselves trapped when Aoleon is taking her pilot exam.

They start there adventure when they are spying on Luminon. Can they warn her father about Galact saboteur can do any damage. What happens next is just the beginning for their adventure and it live treating. They seem to find something in the moon above Mars. Gilbert leans to sky-board. There more trouble ahead. They seem to have been found or they were being tracked.

They get back to Aoleon home and find it ransacked by who know who. They find Uri who had hidden from them. These people who were there took her mother and father. She tell her sister to stay with her Grandma. Pax shows up and tell him that Aoleon an Gilbert will need to escape while they can and need to go somewhere where they can get the help. Will they escape? You will need to read to find out.
  
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tanuki (2 KP) rated Duolingo in Apps

Feb 24, 2019  
Duolingo
Duolingo
Education, Social Networking
8
8.4 (60 Ratings)
App Rating
I preferred the old way
Duolingo's core system is still one of the best out there. It gets users conjugating and constructing sentences, often quite silly ones, to ensure they're truly understand how the language works rather than just parroting stock phrases. You won't escape your grammar lessons here. However last year they altered the progression from simple 'levels' to a kind of open-ended system of simply ranking up in the same skill over and over again. I had already completed the Spanish tree (and had honestly moved on from Duolingo, attending conversation classes and meetups), so perhaps I was just unable to readjust backwards to the new system. New users may enjoy it.

It is still by far the best, simplest and cheapest (ie: free) way to try a new language and start getting to grips with the basics.
  
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Lindsay (1717 KP) rated Out from the Underworld in Books

Feb 15, 2018 (Updated Apr 9, 2019)  
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Out from the Underworld
Heather Siegel | 2015
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The story starts out by having Heather with her daughter and visiting her father. Heather starts the story of her childhood from when her mother left them. The story is painful but intruding at the same time.

We get the authors view of things through her eyes. We also learn about how she and her sister Jazz needs to deal with grieving. We learn about her life in foster care with her brother and sister. Heather has a hard time with her mother's loss.

We see what happens when their father has to make his decision. The siblings have a bond together. We also learn about their father background and the family history. I learned that the siblings had a strong bond with each other. They can not seem to understand why their father does not want to escape the basement.