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Sam (74 KP) rated The School For Good and Evil in Books

Mar 27, 2019  
The School For Good and Evil
The School For Good and Evil
Soman Chainani | 2014 | Children, Young Adult (YA)
6
7.2 (9 Ratings)
Book Rating
I started off really confused as to what the genre was supposed to be. The cover seemed YA, but the plot was more MG. It seemed to be trying to be both at the same time which was a bit confusing.

I liked that it was a new take on fairytales that I hadn’t read before and it definitely made it stand out to me – five years on and I still haven’t read anything quite like it, which is quite an achievement.

It’s full of action from the beginning, but I feel like it may have taken it too far and there was actually too much plot. Sophie and Agatha had to escape a few too many times and in places it just felt like the plot was going around in circles to bulk out what was already quite a heavy plot.

I’m not sure that I would read this one again, and I never actually read any of the other books in the series because I just didn’t get myself invested enough in the story.
  
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drapedindarkness (1 KP) rated Hellraiser (1987) in Movies

Jan 20, 2018  
Hellraiser (1987)
Hellraiser (1987)
1987 | Horror
9
7.9 (58 Ratings)
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Bringing the most iconic horror character in Pinhead to the attention of the masses. (0 more)
Some of the special effects look a little less special these days, but baring in mind its vintage these are forgivable flaws. (0 more)
Classic British Horror with a deviant slant
We'll tear your soul apart. With these words my mind was made up.

Move over Freddy, stand aside Jason because there is a new literal hellraiser and he cannot stand to see such a waste of good suffering.

Despite a very limited screentime, the Cenobites with their defacto leader Pinhead are at once both utterly terrifying and completely entrancing, they defy you to look away or even dislike them, they are beyond good and evil and are neither villain nor hero, what they are is absolutely right, you cannot cheat them or escape them.

I don't need to summarise the plot or detail anything about the other characters, they are really only there as window dressing for the real draw, the Cenobites, Chatterer, She, Butterball and Pinhead invite you to join them and you must not say no!
  
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    A special edition of Julian Barnes' first novel with an introduction from the author and previously...

    Pendulum

    Pendulum

    Adam Hamdy

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    James Patterson has hailed Adam Hamdy's PENDULUM as 'one of the best thrillers of the year' saying...

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Darren Hayman recommended Strawberries by The Damned in Music (curated)

 
Strawberries by The Damned
Strawberries by The Damned
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"The Damned were the first music that I felt I owned. The band you found on your own. The group that your friends don't know. ‘Hayman likes punk music! Ha-ha, what an idiot.’ But the Damned were a terrible punk band; they were too silly, too stupid. I don't like debut albums, all that mindless, directionless energy. I don't like bands at the end of their careers either; the Damned especially do not seem to be able to grow old gracefully. I like bands when they’re in transition. When they try and escape what made them and start to grow into what they always should have been. The Damned were a pop band, and this is their Revolver, not as obvious as their more significant record ‘Phantasmagoria’. They haven't quite ironed out the kinks, and they all hate Captain Sensible who is about to leave them to become a failed star. Strawberries has more tunes than an Elephant Six album. They never play any songs from it now."

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