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David McK (3562 KP) rated Aliens: Alien Harvest in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
AA
Aliens: Alien Harvest
Robert Sheckley | 1995
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Based, apparently, on a dark horse comic of the same name and released before Alien: Resurrection, this book is really only a light read that adds nothing new or exciting to the whole Alien concept: if anything, some of it detracts from that concept (eg the Alien hive easily being penetrated by a small group of characters).

I think I bought it in a sale years ago for round about £2.50 (that's the price written on the inside cover): I'm quite glad that I didn't pay full price for it, which would have felt like a major waste of money!
  
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George Saunders recommended The Bluest Eye in Books (curated)

 
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison | 1970 | Fiction & Poetry
7.6 (5 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"The first time I read this book it transported me back to my early Catholic days on the South Side of Chicago, when the nuns put forth a model of Christ as a kind of superhero, whose superpower was love, defined as his ability to look with affection at anyone and everyone, no exceptions. Morrison models that capability here in this great novel, and reminds us that the first move in any assessment of a person or notion should be sympathy, based on the reality of our grand mutual suffering."

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