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Summer Day's Dream

J.B. Priestley

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"""I spent more than half my life, when I ought to have been enjoying myself, arguing and planning...

The Men Who Breached the Dams

Alan W. Cooper

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Alan Cooper writes about an operation which at the time and ever since has captured the imagination...

The Empty Space

Geetanjali Shree and Geetanjali Menon

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When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are killed. The Empty Space begins with...

Calling Dr. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece

George Case

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Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is one of the...

Executive Decision (1996)

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A 747 travelling from Athens to Washington DC is hijaked by a group of terrorists. They claim it's...

Hostage Thriller plane

The Icecreamists: Boutique Ice Creams and Other Guilty Pleasures to Make and Enjoy at Home

Matt O'Connor

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Infamous creators of the Sex Bomb and Baby Googoo - The Icecreamists are passionate about ice cream...

How to Survive an Atomic Attack: A Cold War Manual

John Christopher and Department of Defense

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Official US government advice on how to survive an atomic attack - including full instructions on...

Lenard (726 KP) rated The Goldfinch (2019) in Movies

Sep 23, 2019

I read the book so this story of loss and longing cut down inside of me. On the way to a meeting with the principal at his upper crust private school, Theo and his mother visit the Met. Unfortunately, a bomb inside the museum turns Theo's life upside down as his mother is killed and he steals a beautiful painting. This rash decision will affect the rest of his life.

The movie has a lot of pretension trying to maintain the loyalty to the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. It also moves glacierly and is hard to sit through if you can't follow everything. The frame of the film is full of artistic art direction and spectular cinematography. A lot of care went into the production, but very little thought was given to "juice" the story into something that nonreaders could enjoy.