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"I had heard about this book for many years before I read it. Ostensibly it is the autobiography of a former alcoholic who chronicles his struggles living rough on the streets of London in a vivid and unique style, but it is more than that. It is the story of determination and rebirth, the tale of a chess champion who overcomes a savage childhood to live again. A powerful book indeed."

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Penny Arcade recommended The Little Prince in Books (curated)

"The Little Prince will be on many peoples best loved book lists. I first read this at 14 and the anarchic wisdom of this book with it's delicate philosophy of the outsider influenced my own thinking about the pitfalls of trading childhood wonder for adulthood,but most of all it taught me about accepting other's differences and the fragile nature of relationship. "That which is essential is invisible to the eye"

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Tracey Thorn recommended The Magic Faraway Tree in Books (curated)

The Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton | 2016 | Children

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"The books that make up The Faraway Tree series are the books of my childhood, the most vivid early memories I have of stories and reading. My mum read them aloud to me and my sister, and the characters in them were as real to me as the next door neighbors. The actual faraway tree was a tall oak at the end of our garden. I truly believed that."

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Jason Williamson recommended track Yesterdays by Guns N' Roses in Use Your Illusion by Guns N' Roses in Music (curated)

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Yesterdays by Guns N' Roses

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"The Use Your Illusions were quite overproduced. You could see why Izzy Stradlin had a problem with them. He wanted to do the 16-track thing, and Axl Rose was having none of it. It's quite an emotional song. Axl Rose clearly had mental issues, and Yesterdays is one of those songs that captures that sadness. Anyone with issues related to childhood problems or trauma can connect with that."

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Kelly MacDonald recommended The Heart is a Lonely Hunter in Books (curated)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers, Kasia Boddy | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry

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"Just the title would be enough for me to love this book. I love reading about the South and the motley band of characters that McCullers has drawn; I have a soft spot for the tomboy, Mick Kelly. She’s feisty and feral. There’s a description of her and a bunch of scrappy kids playing at a building site, and that was my childhood; we were never out of those places."

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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated The Banana Splits Movie (2019) in Movies

Sep 11, 2019

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Just finished watching on blu ray it's okay not great but great concept making the splits go rouge and start killing people. Shame about some of the acting in the movie bad. There are some good kills thru out the movie. In the end best place for the movie straight to dvd. Nostalgia wise reminds me of my childhood watching the TV show