Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2346 KP) rated The 17th Suspect in Books
May 15, 2018
Fans of the series will be pleased with the latest outing. There are plenty of twists and turns to keep them reading, and the cases are both compelling. Of course, the usual weaknesses are there, including Cindy and Claire being under used and all the characters being thin. Additionally, I thought the discussion of Yuki’s case was much more graphic than it truly needed to be.
Baroque Visual Rhetoric
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Intricate, expressive, given to grandeur and even excess, Baroque art as a style is inseparable from...
Fever Dream
Megan McDowell and Samanta Schwebelin
6.0
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a...
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
8.3
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Author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) tells this tale of two men in search of fame and...
David McK (3562 KP) rated The Truman Show (1998) in Movies
Sep 6, 2019 (Updated Mar 14, 2021)
Peter Weir's incredibly prescient satire drama (released, as it was, even pre Big Brother), in which Jim Carrey shows he can actually act, by putting in - for me - what is probably his best performance as Truman Burbank, the unwitting and unknowing star of a 24/7 reality TV show that is now in its 30th year and that is viewed by millions around the globe.
In effect, a bit of an update on the old Descartes 'how do we know what is real?' question: as far as Truman is concerned, this *is* reality, until a series of accidents and events leads him to start to question everything and everyone in his life, leading to the emotional finale (does he ever meet the girl again? What comes next for the world's most recognizable man?).
Ross (3284 KP) rated The Boys Volume 2: Get Some in Books
Aug 27, 2019
The first arc follows Butcher and Hughie trying to find out how a young gay man met his death, and has hilarious moments, mainly surrounding the Batman-esque Tek-Knight.
The second arc sees the team take a trip to Russia and uncover a plot to overthrow the government.
Both stories have the same feel of the first arc, but they feel like something of a distraction, and not much is done to build up the tension with The Seven (other than starting to uncover the CIA's reluctance to take Vought-American down).
Private Eye
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This is a detective series set in 1950's Hollywood. Jack Cleary is a (virtuous) cop and his virtue...
The Looming Tower
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THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NEW TV SERIES This is the definitive account...
W is for Wasted (Kinsey Millhone, #23)
8.3
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Private investigator Kinsey Millhone finds shocking connections between two seemingly unrelated...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2346 KP) rated Tulle Death Do Us Part in Books
Nov 4, 2023
It's been seven years since we last visited these characters, and I hadn’t realized how much I missed them until I was reading this book. Yes, there is plenty of context given so if you are new to the series or haven’t read them recently, you’ll be in Poly’s world in no time. While I was happy to see the characters again, I really appreciated the growth that came out of the story. The mystery unfolds a little differently than a typical cozy, but that’s not a complaint since I was hooked the entire way through. There were a couple of small timeline issues, although they were minor overall. The worst made me chuckle. There’s a fun shout out to one of the author’s other series in the pages. Old fans will be happy to be back in Poly’s world, and new fans will be quickly hooked.