Severed Heads, Broken Hearts
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If you've managed to survive disaster, what happens when it strikes again? Ezra Faulkner believes...
Word Search Puzzles
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Best new FREE word search puzzle game in 2017! Challenge your brain with addictive & fun puzzles!...
Warhammer Quest: Blackstone Fortress
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As vast and dark as a sunless void, the Blackstone Fortress is a creation far beyond the ken of any...
Burned (Pretty Little Liars, #12)
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It's spring break, and the pretty little liars are trading in Rosewood for a cruise vacation. ...
City of Brass
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The gameplay video released to coincide with the announcement clearly shows the protagonist wielding...
Girl at Sea
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Sometimes you have to get lost . . . The Girl: Clio Ford, seventeen, wants to spend the summer...
Star Wars Omnibus: Adventures
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Star Wars headliners Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Darth Vader, and others feature in six tales of...
Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Turtle Boy (Timmy Quinn #1) in Books
Sep 4, 2023
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The Turtle Boy ( Timmy Quinn 1)
By kealan Patrick Burke
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School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond a pond playground rumor says may hide turtles the size of Buicks everything changes. For it soon becomes apparent that dark secrets abound in the little community, secrets which come cupped in the hands of the dead, and in a heartbeat, Timmy and Petes summer of wonder becomes a season of terror, betrayal and murder.
This was really good! Well written you became involved with the story and the characters. Really good quick read.
Fables & Lies: A WWII Novel Based on a True Story
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WWII Berlin. Freyja Bremer, a patriotic museum assistant, marries Kaspar Voigt, an ambitious SS...
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RəX Regent (349 KP) rated The Goonies (1985) in Movies
Feb 25, 2019
Named after the Goon Docks of which they inhabit, a group of kids, after finding a treasure map, decide that this is their last chance to save the town, which is to knocked down in favour of a Country Club. This leads them on an adventure through the booby-trapped underground catacombs of the town, as they follow the map to One Eyed Willie's treasure.
They get mixed up with the Fratelli's, a matriarchal crime family who get wind of the treasure and follows them into the caves.
The first ting that struck me about this, is after all these years what that it was still fun, enjoyable and even though I might not bother watching by myself, I would defiantly enjoy seeing again with the right audience. The raucous nature of a group of children together in a room is captured so expertly here, with a young Sean Austin, now famous for his portrayal of Samwise Gamgee in the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, holding the pack together; but the chaos is portrayed perfectly.
The language is good here too, with casual swearing amongst the kids, meaning that this must be one of the rare family films to truly capture the interplay between tweenage and teenage kids. Overall, this is a classic for all the right reasons, with the story by Steven Spielberg with only goes to further reinforce his status as one of Hollywood's greatest visionaries and a sharp, tight screenplay by Chris Columbus, who penned Gremlins the previous year and went on to direct the first two, but the weakest two Harry Potter movies.
There is also the questionable issue of the way that the Fratelli's treat Chunk. When you think about it he is threatened with torture after being kidnapped and spending time with the murdered corpse of two 'Feds' who have been shot in the head, murdered in cold blood.
I love this, treating the horror in a mature way, allowing it to used as humour but in a way to playfully scare kids, which it does. It is fun, but I do wonder where the PC brigade would let some of these plot points go in to a child friendly romp in 2011? I hope so, as it is the combination of elements that made this film what it is today.