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Betty Fussell recommended Metamorphoses in Books (curated)

Metamorphoses

Ovid | 2004 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(1 Ratings)

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"“Of shapes transformed to bodies strange” — Ovid’s theme is Shakespeare in a nutshell. As a theater fanatic, I discovered Ovid in my 40s when I wrote my PhD thesis on Renaissance Tragicomedy. For me, the root of drama and language is the invisible made visible in the shape-changing of sex, love, life and death. Not to mention food."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Beyond The Reach (2015) in Movies

May 4, 2021

Beyond The Reach (2015)

2015 | Mystery

9.0

(1 Ratings)

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Nowhere to Go

Beyond The Reach- is a excellent survival of the fitnest film. Micheal Douglas is excellent in this film.

The plot: In the Mojave Desert, a naked and unarmed hunting guide (Jeremy Irvine) runs from a wealthy hunter (Michael Douglas) who wants to ensure his silence in the death of an old man.

Highly recordmend.

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Steven Pinker recommended Atrocities in Books (curated)

Atrocities

Matthew White | 2013 | History & Politics, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences, Reference, Science & Mathematics

(0 Ratings)

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"This chronicle of history’s hundred deadliest wars and massacres, including death tolls, is a good way to settle bets (who was worse, Genghis Khan or Hitler?), brush up your history, and marvel at the cruelty and stupidity of our species. It was a useful source when I wrote “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined.”"

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Ottessa Moshfegh recommended Sorry to Disrupt the Peace in Books (curated)

Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

Patty Yumi Cottrell | 2017 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"Oh, Patty. I miss you! Her debut novel moved me really deeply. It's so personally written, although it is also a dry dissection of an experience with death, also of a brother. Having lost my own brother recently, Patty's book, along with “Fourteen Stories,” reminds me that there is a way out of grief, which is creativity."

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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) in Movies

Oct 11, 2019 (Updated Oct 11, 2019)

Part 2

This is still a great part, the ending is really good. I would highly reccordmend the comic book and also this film.

The Plot: Batman comes out of retirement and gets help from a teenage sidekick. He faces off against the Joker and Two-Face before a battle to the death begins against Superman.