Ranger Handbook & Study Guide
Reference and Education
App
What this app IS: 1. This app cleverly presents the Ranger Handbook in two formats, as a study...
Organisation: Philosophy, Structure and Morality
Book
A central aim of this paper is synthesis between conflicting rational and contextual views of the...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019) in Movies
May 7, 2020
In all honesty, the first 25 minutes or so are actually half decent. The plot revolves around four friends getting stuck in an underwater Mayan ruin whilst cave diving. This setting is effective, providing a claustrophobic backdrop for the characters to be stalked by a great white shark. There are countless shots of sheer blackness, and it's relatively unsettling now and again.
Of course there's a hastily introduced plot kicker not long after - the shark is in fact blind, and hunts using sound, and here is where the movies big gaping issues lie....
The ladies figure this detail out immediately, but then proceed to constantly scream and shout for the test of the runtime. Not only can they hear each other talking clear as day UNDERWATER, but their incessant warbling had me rooting for the shark before long. What starts as a fairly tense underwater thriller, devolves into Hollywood silliness in a matter of minutes, complete with a set of characters that lack any relatability or likable qualities.
The sharks themselves look ok when shrouded in darkness (there are a few creepy shots, and a few fairly good jump scares), but up close, the poor CGI is easily exposed.
It's not a terrible, but you're not missing out if you give this one a pass.
Introduction to Engineering: A Project-Based Experience in Engineering Methods
Martiqua L. Post, Steven A. Brandt and D. Neal Barlow
Book
Introduction to Engineering is a project-based learning experience for engineering students, who are...
Grades for Parents and Students
Education and Productivity
App
Grades is the best way to check and calculate your grades if your school uses the Aeries student...
Remote DMX
Productivity
App
Remote DMX for iPhone™ is a small app, equal to the app Remote DMX Free for MacBook™, to test or...
What You Need to Know About Pernicious Anaemia and Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Book
Are you constantly exhausted? Does sleep not refresh you? Is your balance not what it was? Do you...
The Man I Became
David Colmer and Peter Verhelst
Book
Warning: This story is narrated by a gorilla. He is plucked from the jungle. He learns to chat and...
ClareR (5681 KP) rated The Memory of Animals in Books
Jun 8, 2023
This is a pandemic novel - but not our pandemic, not Covid. This is a dropsy-type disease, where those infected swell up, their brains swell up too, they forget - and more often than not, they die.
Neffy (Nefeli) and a group of young people volunteer to be vaccinated against, and then infected by, the virus. Something goes wrong, and it looks as though Neffy and four other test volunteers are the only ones who are alive and well. But they can’t leave the building they’re in and the food is running out.
Neffy is a Marine Biologist, an Aquarist, and my favourite parts were her letters to ‘H’ as well as her flashbacks to childhood and pre-pandemic.
This isn’t *just* a speculative, science fiction book, it’s a story about the human condition, about the human drive to survive against the odds, regret, loss, grief, memory, love and above all, hope.
I could go on and on about this. I would never have expected a novel like this from Claire Fuller after reading her previous novels, but that’s what makes it even better. I actually read this twice (unheard of for me, actually). I finished it and immediately started reading again.
So yes, I would most definitely strongly recommend this book!