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ClareR (6238 KP) rated Loot in Books

Apr 14, 2024  
Loot
Loot
Tania James | 2024 | Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
An immersive historical fiction novel set in India. Loot by Tania James begins in Mysore in the 1790s, and a young woodcarver called Abbas is summoned to the palace of Tipu Sultan to help a French clockmaker, Lucien du Leze build a clockwork tiger.

And so starts a series of events that will see the end of Tipu Sultans reign, Abbas’ journey to France and his subsequent quest to find and recover the tiger for himself. It’s a tale full of adventure, danger and romance. I really enjoyed it!
  
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David McK (3801 KP) rated Nautilus in TV

Jan 6, 2025  
Nautilus
Nautilus
2024 |
5
5.0 (1 Ratings)
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Jules Verne, "20,000 leagues under the sea"

I've read it (it was slow).

I never realised until I heard somebody say as such in this, that Nemo is Latin for nobody.

Anyway, this is a 10-part adventure/drama miniseries that follows the crew of the Nautilus from before the Jules Verne story, in which Nemo is already an established character, from the creation of the Nautilus itself by prisoners of the East India Mercantile Company (of which Nemo is one), it's theft by the same and the chase across the oceans that follows.
  
Plane (2023)
Plane (2023)
2023 | Action
6
7.1 (9 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Gerard Butler action/adventure films.

So pretty much what you'd expect, really.

here, he plays a pilot who is forced to crash-land his plane on a remote and war-torn island after it is hit by lightning (on New Years Eve, whilst travelling home to see his daughter), with his passengers then taken hostage by the rebels on said island and with Butler then having to find a way to rescue them, in company with a prisoner who was being transported on board his plane, wanted for murder.

Solid if unspectacular.