The Whiskeys of Ireland
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This beautifully produced book, with full-colour photographs throughout, will tell you everything...
I, Spy
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Have you ever wanted to be your own private eye? Have you ever wanted to track down long-lost...
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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When asked to talk to students at Broome Community College in upstate New York in the spring of...
The Little Book of Sex Secrets: Red Hot Confessions, Fantasies, Techniques & Discoveries
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Most of us keep our most sizzling sexploits and erotic fantasies to ourselves. Not so Nicole Bailey,...
Ancient America: Fifty Archaeological Sites to See for Yourself
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Presenting "the real deal" of American antiquity-as opposed to the hyped fare of many cable TV...
Artisan/Practitioners and the Rise of the New Sciences, 1400-1600
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This book provides the historical background for a central issue in the history of science: the...
Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Hawkeye vs. Deadpool in Books
Nov 30, 2020
What followed was a train wreck, the kind that there is no accident insurance in the world that could've helped this mess! Sophmoric writing, humor that wasn't humorous enough to call it "humor" (!), and characterizations that, if owned the characters of Clint Barton and Kate Bishop, should have made Matt Fraction unbelievably disappointed!
And dear God, when did Black Cat become such a lame-ass character? Okay, granted she was bat-**** crazy, but here? She was acting like some criminal mastermind (with two scoops of crazy!).
The only thing that helped me give this drek at least one star? The art talent of Matteo Lolli! That was about the only this book got right: the way the characters are supposed to look!
Look, when it went up for the sale price of $2.99 on Comixology, I thought it would be justokay, but not this bad! One of those rare situations where I should've heeded the negative reviews I'd seen for this book!
*** NOT Recommended! ***
Awix (3310 KP) rated Jason and the Argonauts (1963) in Movies
Oct 5, 2019 (Updated Oct 5, 2019)
The script is, to be honest, all over the place: it's episodic, the writers seem to have been making it up as they went (the most memorable character wanders out of the movie half way through), and Jason doesn't actually complete the mission he sets himself at the start (maybe they were hoping for a sequel). However, for a bad movie this has some of the most wonderful special effects ever put on celluloid, namely Ray Harryhausen's brilliant hand-crafted animation. Any amount of stodgy non-acting and dubious costume design would be a small price to pay for sequences like the ones with the bronze titan Talos, the Hydra, or the mob of skeletons at the end (the skeleton battle is such a breathtaking achievement it should really be playing on loop in art galleries around the world). They don't make them like this any more. Even the bad bits are kind of bad in a good way.
Advances in Sheep Welfare
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Advances in Sheep Welfare examines the recent advances made in sheep welfare assessment, handling...
National Geographic Illustrated Guide to Nature: From Your Back Door to the Great Outdoors
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Bursting with beautiful images and completely authoritative text, this comprehensive nature field...