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Tonya (52 KP) rated The Librarians - Season 4 in TV

Dec 23, 2017

Funny, likeable Characters (2 more)

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Failing attempt at character development (0 more)

Quirky, humerous, but a bit ridiculous this season

First of all, my family loves watching the librarians. But this season is off to a less than captivating start. Four episodes in and each one has tried to tell us a bit more about the past of one of the main characters and in my opinion it has fallen flat. While the character info has been interesting, using it as the foundation for the episode has led to a ridiculously week storyline. I much preferred seasons past based on history or mythology where the character info was the bonus. Jenkins as usual saves the day and I will keep watching.

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Chris Hooker (419 KP) rated Johnny Graphic and the Etheric Bomb in Books

Jan 12, 2018

Johnny Graphic and the Etheric Bomb

D.R. Martin | 2012 | Children, Paranormal, Young Adult (YA)

10.0

(1 Ratings)

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[Johnny Graphic and the Etheric Bomb] by [D.R. Martin] was an incredible adventure. In the classic sense of serial adventures from the 1940's the young cub photographer, who happens to see ghosts and is 12 yrs old, has to save the world from a horrible new bomb. Along with his sister, Melanie and other friends, they travel the world to solve the mystery and stop destruction.

As a teacher who just spent the past three weeks teaching about the making of the atomic bomb this book seemed to parallel that with a 'ghostly' twist. (I know bad pun.) I will be looking forward to reading book two. Also did I mention besides ghosts there are zombies. Highly recommended.

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Mark Halpern (153 KP) rated Forrest Gump (1994) in Movies

Feb 3, 2018

Forrest Gump (1994)

1994 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

8.7

(94 Ratings)

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EPIC

Tom Hanks plays Forrest Gump plays a young man who is very slow but, smart growing up in the south during the 60's with his mom (Field). His life through school, the Vietnam war where he befriends his LT (Sinise), his lust for the love of his life Jenny (wright), to coming home and becoming the shrimp king of the world and just on more historical adventures.

The movie is kind of set to Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" as a ton of these historical events take place during this movie in which forrest has some connection with. The movie aslo has one of the best 60's soundtracks set to it of all time.

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Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2570 KP) rated Once Upon the End (Half Upon a Time, #3) in Books

Mar 9, 2018

The trilogy comes to an end as Jack completes his training for his new master and sets out on a mysterious quest of his own. Meanwhile, May is living with her wicked step-mother and Phillip is wishing for more adventures. Will these three reunite to overthrow the Evil Queen? If you've enjoyed the first two, you'll love how the series ends. There's more humor and more twists and suspense. I always had a hard time putting it down. And if you haven't read the series? Don't start here, but read all three of them.

My full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2013/05/book-review-once-upon-end-by-james.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.

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Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated The Incredibles 2 (2018) in Movies

Jun 17, 2019

The Incredibles 2 (2018)

2018 | Action, Animation, Comedy

8.2

(177 Ratings)

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Incredibles 2: Groundhog day

Contains spoilers, click to show

Starting right from where the 1st movie left off, the incredibles quickly defeat the underminer and superheroes are cool again, or at least, welcome again)

With mrs incredible missing the superhero excitement, she its contacted by a mysterious person offering new adventures.
Bob is now a stay at home dad, whilst dash and violet continue to attend school....

Things quickly change when the mysterious client who hired mrs incredible is revealed as the evil genius....

To save a little time, this is the exact same plot at the first one, with mrs incredible in the driver's seat this Time around.

Same graphics, darker tone but with the fun bonus of the father/super baby shenanigans.

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David McK (3801 KP) rated King of Ithaca (Adventures of Odysseus, #1) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

While, reading the synopsis, this seems like the type of book I would enjoy, I have to say: I actually found this to be quite a dry read.

The first in a planned series of books ('The Adventures of Odysseus'), this one deals with the pre Trojan-war days, with (at the start of the novel) Odysseus not yet King of Ithaca. Centring primarily on one of Odysseus companions rather than Odysseus himself, this does have plenty of intrigue and action, but I (unfortunately) found none of those to be that stirring.

Not a patch on David Gemmell's Troy series ('Lord of the Silver Bow', Shield of Thunder' and 'Fall of Kings') of books.