Woman's Hour: Words from Wise, Witty and Wonderful Women
Alison Maloney and Jenni Murray
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For the last 70 years, the guests of Woman's Hour have been entertaining listeners with their...
David McK (3633 KP) rated Biggles: The Camels Are Coming in Books
Jan 3, 2021
Thankfully, Amazon doesn't know (or care).
I've just re-read this for the first time in something like 30 odd years, and it's amazing how well it actually holds together all those years later.
Like 'Biggles Learns To Fly' (which I also re-read recently), this is more a collection of short stories with little in the real way of any over-arching plot: vignettes which, if the author is to be believed (and I've no reason not to) are all based on true stories that either happened to him or that he heard about during his earliest flying days in the latter stages of World War One.
While the character of Biggles may not be as popular or as well-known today as during the years in which the stories were written (the 1930 through to the 1990s), there's a reason why they have endured as long as they have ...
Best of Fear by Primal Fear
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“Best of Fear“, as the name implies, is a new best of compilation from German heavy metal...
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Thick as Thieves
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Twenty years ago, four men attempted to pull off the ultimate heist, almost walking away with half a...
Princess Sudoku Lite
Games and Education
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Sudoku for girls, with pictures of princesses, princes and royal animals! In the Sudoku game (more...
Five Unforgivable Things
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Over twenty years ago, Kate’s dream came true. After years of struggling, she was finally pregnant...
David McK (3633 KP) rated Jurassic World (2015) in Movies
Aug 16, 2020 (Updated Jun 21, 2022)
In both the real world and the fictional world of this movie.
Set back in the original location of Isla Sorna, this imagines that John Hammond's park has been open to the public for over 20 years: to a public that has largely grown inured to the Dinosaurs and demands a new attraction every 2 years or so.
Enter the genetically engineered hybrid Indominus Rex, which (of course) causes chaos when it gets free of its paddock...
This movie definitely takes its cue from the original film, complete with a pair of siblings lost in the wilderness as the Dino's run amok! For some reason, the effects also seem less impressive than the earlier film (perhaps just because we've gotten used to them? Yes, just like the visitors to the island...), which mixed animatronics with its Special Effects, to great effect.
Eruption
James Patterson and Michael Crichton
5.0
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A history-making once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii....
From Blind Man to Ironman
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Haseeb Ahmad started to lose his sight at 10 years old. He knew his eyesight wasn't normal, but the...