EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security: Technology, Externalization and Accountability
Raphael Bossong and Helena Carrapico
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This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee...
Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling: Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data
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Shipping flows - maritime 'footprints' - remain underexplored in the existing literature despite the...
Erika (17788 KP) rated Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) in Movies
Aug 26, 2017
Hey, it was a better movie than Suicide Squad.
Spanish Colonial Style: Santa Barbara and the Architecture of James Osborne Craig and Mary Mclaughlin Craig
Pamela Skewes-Cox and Robert Sweeney
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An ode to the classic Spanish-style houses of Santa Barbara. Spanish Colonial Style celebrates an...
In Bed with Dr Sue
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Straight Talk on Twisted Subjects™ Now that we have your attention its time you heard more from Dr...
JT (287 KP) rated The Book of Eli (2010) in Movies
Mar 10, 2020
A story based around religion is not always going to be for everyone but if anything the cast is a shining light in an otherwise scrappy film.
Gary Oldman plays the true archetypal villain, looking like a cowboy but sounding like a biblical reverend, he truly knows how to play the bad guy. Washington gives an equally decent performance but is some way off his best.
The cinematography is stunning and the desolate landscape depicts a true reflection of the aftermath of nuclear war. It’s grainy and gritty but needed to pack more of a punch. The brief action and fight scenes are well choreographed and the twist in tale at the end should be enough raise a few questions in the car park.
The First Forty-Nine Stories
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From Ernest Hemingway's Preface: 'There are many kinds of stories in this book. I hope you will find...
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Invited to Nightmute, Alaska, to head a murder case, a veteran LAPD detective (Al Pacino) finds his...
Nikki Allegretti (6 KP) rated A Court of Wings and Ruin in Books
Oct 13, 2017
The first reason: it was rushed. This story would have been 100 times better if she had taken her time and split it into two books. I absolutely adore SJM's writing and her initials are inked on my body forever, so it's not like I'm bashing her writing. I love her. It was just rushed. There were things that would have been better to have been spread out.
The second reason: unnecessary deaths and unnecessary revivals. I won't go into details on that because I don't want to spoil anything specific.
The third reason: this one hurts me the most. I've seen the movie Troy about 432451542 times. (Yes exaggerations.) There were lines from Troy that were paraphrased in this book and that bothers me. It is one thing to get inspired by a movie, it's another to paraphrase it. I will show my work.
-in the meeting with the high lords, Tamlin says something along the lines of ..leave in the middle of the night...blah blah...but Feyre says "The sun was shining when I left you."
--in the movie, Troy, Helen's husband says something along the lines of I see no prince I see someone who would take a man's wife in the middle of the night. Paris responds with "the sun was shining when your wife left you."
My other example:
-Mor and Feyre are standing on a hill watching a battle and Mor is pacing and says "get the men back into lines"
--in Troy, Achilles is on a hill watching a battle and he says "get them back into lines" while Odysseus yells "Get the men back into lines."
It's all small things that would go unnoticed if you didn't watch the movie 53751432 times. So it just bothered me, a lot. I'll still read her work. I'll still love her, but those two scenes bothered me to no end