Scotland's Mountain Ridges: Scrambling, Mountaineering and Climbing - the Best Routes for Summer and Winter
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A guidebook to the rich mix of summer scrambling, rock climbing and winter mountaineering on...
Alex Cross, Run (Alex Cross, #20)
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Kill Alex Cross was "Patterson at the top of his game" (Washington Post). Alex Cross, Run is even...
Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Daughter of Smoke and Bone, #3)
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By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on...
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta
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A Dead Hand is a dark tale of crime in Calcutta, by Paul Theroux. Jerry Delfont is a travel writer...
Anansi Boys
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From bestselling storytelling legend Neil Gaiman, author of American Gods and The Ocean at the End...
Goebbels
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Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler's most loyal acolytes. But how did this club-footed son of a...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Frankenweenie (2012) in Movies
Oct 31, 2020
The plot: Young Victor Frankenstein (Charlie Tahan) is a science nerd and outsider at school, but he does have one good friend: his dog, Sparky. But then, tragedy strikes, and Sparky shuffles off this mortal coil. Victor is heartbroken, but his science teacher (Martin Landau) gives him an idea of how to jolt old Sparky back to life. The experiment is successful, and all goes well, until Victor's fellow students steal his secret and use it to resurrect other dead animals -- with monstrous consequences.
It is a feature-length remake of Burton's 1984 short film of the same name and is also both a parody of and homage to the 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's book of the same name.
This is the final horror film released under the Disney banner until Ready Or Not on August 21, 2019 from Fox Searchlight Pictures, which was bought by Disney in 2019.
The voice cast includes four actors who worked with Burton on previous films: Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands); Martin Short (Mars Attacks!); Catherine O'Hara (Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas); and Martin Landau (Ed Wood and Sleepy Hollow), along with some new voice actors, such as Charlie Tahan and Atticus Shaffer.
Its a dark humor twisted film.
Merissa (12698 KP) rated Wintersfall (Gen-Heirs: The Guardians of Sziveria #1) in Books
Aug 5, 2021
Following the murder of her mother and sister, Katria joins a government team on the understanding that an investigation will take place to find out who killed them. Fast forward three years and Katria has grown into a more than capable agent. With one fail to their name, the team is called back to Haven City and the intrigue really starts!
This was a great, twisted story with an amazing cast of characters, both main and supporting. I found it slightly difficult to get my head around the hierarchy and hated having to keep switching back and forth to the explanation given at the beginning of the book. In the end, I gave up and just read it as was.
The story isn't completed, by any stretch of the imagination. The focus may be moving from Katria and Sean but, make no mistake, there is so much more to come. I don't think we've even scratched the surface yet.
A great story that I thoroughly enjoyed and can't wait to read more. Absolutely recommended by me.
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Merissa
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