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Yoko Ono recommended Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Books (curated)

 
Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Plundering Appalachia: The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining
Tom Butler | 2009 | Art, Photography & Fashion, Essays
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"Once our valleys were green… now they look like the bomb-destroyed cities we created in Iraq. Buy this book and see what is quietly being done to middle America because of a few people’s greed."

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Dean (6926 KP) rated Oppenheimer (2023) in Movies

Aug 7, 2023  
Oppenheimer (2023)
Oppenheimer (2023)
2023 | Biography, Drama, History
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8.8 (6 Ratings)
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Well what a great film about a fascinating story of the development of the atomic bomb. It looks and sounds great as you expect from Christopher Nolan. I'm sure there will be Oscar's a plenty especially for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr.
Obviously it is almost 3 hours long but doesn't really drag, as well as the bomb building it also covers political elements after the World War 2. It's very intriguing and definitely worth catching on the big screen.
  
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ClareR (5716 KP) rated Light Perpetual in Books

Mar 13, 2021  
Light Perpetual
Light Perpetual
Francis Spufford | 2021 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics
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6.5 (2 Ratings)
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Light Perpetual is a wonderful book that takes us on a journey of the alternative lives of five southeast London children. Alec, Ben, Vernon, Jo and Val are all queueing in Woolworths when a German bomb hits. This first chapter about the bomb dropping was stunning. I didn’t think I could read pretty much a whole chapter about the way that a bomb impacts and then explodes AND enjoy it - but it was mesmerising. Then, something changes, and it’s as if the bomb never happens. We are taken on an alternative future, alternative lives for the five children. It’s as if the bomb had never dropped. Life goes on, and these five young children are able to live their lives as teenagers, adults, and in to old age. And what varied lives they lead. Not only do we see what becomes of them, but we experience a significant chunk of the twentieth century with all of the huge changes and the impact on the people that lived through these times.

I loved everything about this book, and I can’t believe that I haven’t read any Francis Spufford before. I shall have to rectify that. In the meantime, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this - it’s just my kind of book.
Many thanks to The Pigeonhole for helping me out with my NetGalley list once again (it happens a lot!), and to Francis Spufford for reading along with us.
  
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Salman Rushdie recommended Riddley Walker in Books (curated)

 
Riddley Walker
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban | 2012 | Contemporary, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9.5 (2 Ratings)
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"This unjustly forgotten 1980 novel is unlike anything else: Its portrait of a world after a nuclear holocaust — the explosion of the “1 Big 1″ — is written in language that’s brilliantly fractured, as if a bomb has exploded there as well."

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