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Paul Schneider recommended The Night of the Hunter (1955) in Movies (curated)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

1955 | Drama, Mystery

9.0

(5 Ratings)

Movie Favorite

"My favorite genre: movies that are for children that are not for children at all. (And when Mike Patton, with Fantômas, covered one of its songs on the band’s 2001 album, The Director’s Cut, an even darker veil was pulled over the film.) This film sends me back to summer nights down South, running through the woods long after the dinner bell rang. I’d freeze on the line between our glowing yellow porch light in front and the deeper woods behind. The compact blackness of those deeper woods terrified me, but it hypnotized me more. The Night of the Hunter’s river sequence and the title sequence of To Kill a Mockingbird are the truest portrayals of childhood that have ever been captured on film."

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The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Five Quarters Of The Orange in Books

Oct 5, 2020

This is the story of Framboise – no, not a bottle of raspberry liqueur (thank heavens), but rather the woman by that name from a farm on the river Loire in the French village of Les Laveuses. This is partially the story of Framboise’s troubled childhood with her brother (named Casis), sister (Reine-Claude) and especially her unwell and widowed mother (who was, of course, an amazing cook) during the years of WWII and Nazi occupied France. It is also the story of her no less troubling old age – accounted from the time she returns to the village in her ‘retirement’, in order to open a creperie. You can read the rest of my review here. https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2015/02/22/the-last-squeeze-is-the-sweetest/

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David McK (3600 KP) rated Biggles Learns to Fly in Books

Dec 23, 2020

I was going to start this by saying this was the earliest set of the Biggles stories, back in The First World War.

Then I did a bit of research, and discovered that it depends upon how (and what) you are counting as a Biggles story/book - see http://www.biggles.info/

Perhaps, then, it would be better to say that this is the earliest set of any I have read.

Published in 1935, this is (apparently) a collection of 12 separate short stories, all of which are loosely linked together and follows some of Biggles earlier exploits.

I realise I'm not the target audience for these (I'm now too old). I don't care: sometimes it's nice just to re-live your childhood!

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Hello, Sunshine

Laura Dave

6.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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Sunshine Mackenzie is living the dream—she’s a culinary star with millions of fans, a line of #1...

Eleanor (1463 KP) rated The Shadows in Books

Jul 29, 2020

The Shadows

Alex North | 2020 | Thriller

9.0

(3 Ratings)

Book Rating

A thriller with some real chills. Returning to his home town for the first time in 25 years Paul is still haunted by the murder that occurred there in his childhood and with a copycat about he's not the only one finding it hard to forget the town's horrific past.

This is not a tale for the weak-stomached with some truly gory and creepy imagery. It's both well written by Alex North and the audiobook was a great listen (narrated by Hannah Arterton and John Heffernan.)

I did find the ending slightly anti-climatic but I think part of it was the build-up was just so good.

Thanks to Macmillan Audio, the author, and NetGalley for the copy.