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Our Ancient Wars: Rethinking War Through the Classics

Victor Caston and Silke-Maria Weineck

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Many famous texts from classical antiquity-by historians like Thucydides, tragedians like Sophocles...

Vietnam: A History

Mike Lepine

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A special edition hardcover book and DVD set with more than three hours of rarely seen American...

Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated The Fishermen in Books

Oct 10, 2017 (Updated Oct 10, 2017)

The Fishermen

Jon Gray, Chigozie Obioma | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

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A heartbreaking elegy to Nigeria's lost promise

A beautiful and deeply tragic story exploring a family's secrets based in Nigeria. The novel follows four brothers in a small Nigerian village who are given a violent prophecy which shakes their family to the core.

Like most classic African novels in the Achebe-Ngugi tradition, The Fishermen mixes the traditional English novel form with the oral storytelling tradition, dramatising the conflict between the traditional and the modern. It is rather depressing but poignant.

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starwarsluvr (236 KP) rated Eve of Darkness (Marked, #1) in Books

Jan 30, 2018

I was expecting a lot better then it was, however it wasn't a bad book just got confusing and the characters kind of annoyed me. I did love cain and abel I will admit and Eve rocked but their trio conflict annoyed me. I felt like neither man seriously wanted to be with her and it was just a game to them. I enjoyed it but found myself fighting to make it through to the end and glad that it was over.

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Andrew Koltuniuk (762 KP) rated The Ultimate Legacy (2015) in Movies

Jun 19, 2018

A lot of the Cinematography (3 more)

The dialogue

The Writing

No conflict

Really? Another one?

So.... I loved the first film in this series "The Ultimate Gift". But this film is just bad. It tried to take the first one and copycat it without any of the drama, charisma or fun. This movie was boring. The main character was too nice and anything that he said to be mean felt out of character. The movie felt like a lazy cash grab.

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Iron Fist (Star Wars: X-Wing, #6) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

hmmm ...

Having dealth with the creation of Wraith Squadron and their subsequent first mission in the previous installment of the X-Wing series, <i>Iron Fist</i> continues to tell the story of Wraith Squadron, and of the hunt for Warlord Zsinj.

This time, the members of that X-Wing fighter unit must pose as pirates in order to infiltrate the warlord's fleet. Cue more scenes of space dog-fighting, inter-pilot conflict, and the requisite loose ends for the sequel ...