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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
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Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets...
Retelling the Stories of Our Lives: Everyday Narrative Therapy to Draw Inspiration and Transform Experience
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Our lives and their pathways are not fixed in stone; instead they are shaped by story. The ways in...
The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer
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'So impossibly funny, clever, demented, charming and altogether wonderful that I was a convert...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Dead Ringers (1988) in Movies
Sep 15, 2020 (Updated Sep 15, 2020)
Whats The Difference Between Us
Dead Ringers- is a decent movie, its the last movie david cronenberg did in the 80's. So his 80's streak ending on a low ball/a dispointment. I really liked Jeremy Irons he was really good. And the psychological espect was good as well. Other than that it was a okay movie.
The Plot: Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly (also Irons). Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire (Geneviève Bujold), but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
In his DVD commentary, Irons claims that Robert De Niro declined playing the Mantles due to his unease with the subject matter and portraying gynecologists, while William Hurt decided to reject the parts because "it is hard enough to play one role".
Irons was given two different dressing rooms with two sets of costumes for playing his two characters. However, given the fact that he said "the whole point of the story is you should sometimes be confused as to which is which", he chose to use only one of the rooms and combine different costume items intended for different characters. Irons also developed an "internal way" to portray each character, employing the Alexander technique for "different energy points", giving each character his own appearance.
Like i said before the psychological espect is good in this. Jeremy Irons was excellent. I wouldnt really recordmend this film, rather davids other 80's films instead.
The Plot: Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly (also Irons). Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire (Geneviève Bujold), but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.
In his DVD commentary, Irons claims that Robert De Niro declined playing the Mantles due to his unease with the subject matter and portraying gynecologists, while William Hurt decided to reject the parts because "it is hard enough to play one role".
Irons was given two different dressing rooms with two sets of costumes for playing his two characters. However, given the fact that he said "the whole point of the story is you should sometimes be confused as to which is which", he chose to use only one of the rooms and combine different costume items intended for different characters. Irons also developed an "internal way" to portray each character, employing the Alexander technique for "different energy points", giving each character his own appearance.
Like i said before the psychological espect is good in this. Jeremy Irons was excellent. I wouldnt really recordmend this film, rather davids other 80's films instead.
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Nikki G. (48 KP) rated The Fault in Our Stars in Books
Sep 2, 2017
There was a point where the tears started to drip, faintly, from my eyes, and they didn't stop until I closed the book and lay there for a bit.
I avoided this book for a while because it has been super-hyped, and most of the time, those are the books that do not live up to my expectations. This, however, was pretty solid. Hazel and Augustus have the short of overblown, pretentious conversations I had as a young adult, back when I thought I was so Worldly because I'd read a handful of classics. The only difference, of course, is that I did not have a terminal illness. I appreciate Mr. Green's attempt to bring the sometimes ugly reality that is cancer to the fore. It was also humorous in parts, and sweet. Hit all the right notes for me.
I avoided this book for a while because it has been super-hyped, and most of the time, those are the books that do not live up to my expectations. This, however, was pretty solid. Hazel and Augustus have the short of overblown, pretentious conversations I had as a young adult, back when I thought I was so Worldly because I'd read a handful of classics. The only difference, of course, is that I did not have a terminal illness. I appreciate Mr. Green's attempt to bring the sometimes ugly reality that is cancer to the fore. It was also humorous in parts, and sweet. Hit all the right notes for me.
Kat S. (3 KP) rated The Mummy (2017) in Movies
Feb 5, 2018
The "witty" banter was not. The jokes were flat when they were trying to make things a little lighter and the story development was more about how many explosions and fights can we put in this movie than actually developing a story. There were a few moments that caught me and I was impressed but it had to do with the effects like the eyes not the overall movie.
The mummies used reminded me more of zombies. The only difference is that mummies go poof into dust and zombies go squish into goo when disposed of.
The ending was decently done, but the build up to it was slapdash at best. I really wouldn't watch this movie again.
The mummies used reminded me more of zombies. The only difference is that mummies go poof into dust and zombies go squish into goo when disposed of.
The ending was decently done, but the build up to it was slapdash at best. I really wouldn't watch this movie again.
Ivana A. | Diary of Difference (1171 KP) rated Spotify Music in Apps
Jul 11, 2018
Spotify
I love Spotify, and I only have the free version, as my playlists are so good updated, that I can still listen to everything I want, even when the only was is for the songs to shuffle.
If I am using it on the phone, there are ads every 15 minutes, even though it should be every 60 minutes. And I can only forward a song 6 times per hours.
The same free version, but on my PC - ads just pop up, and I can close them, which don't disturb my music at all, and also I can shuffle and play any song from my playlists that I want.
This being said - why the inconsistency? And what is the point of buying the premium?
If I am using it on the phone, there are ads every 15 minutes, even though it should be every 60 minutes. And I can only forward a song 6 times per hours.
The same free version, but on my PC - ads just pop up, and I can close them, which don't disturb my music at all, and also I can shuffle and play any song from my playlists that I want.
This being said - why the inconsistency? And what is the point of buying the premium?
Bysa (2 KP) rated The Wife Between Us in Books
Sep 19, 2018
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this book is exactly like The Last Mrs. Parrish. it was all I could think as I read it. the only difference was a small plot deviation, and I mean so small it was miniscule enough to not even mention. it was an ok read but to compare it to Girl on the Train or Gone Girl is a big misrepresentation, it wasn't of the same ilk or of the same caliber.
The Last Mrs Parrish came out the end of last year, this book The wife between us was released this year in January. I'm not saying one is a copy of the other because clearly they would've been in editing and publication queues around the same time, but it's highly coincidental how alike the books are.
the Last Mrs. Parrish was better crafted and executed masterfully.
this book is exactly like The Last Mrs. Parrish. it was all I could think as I read it. the only difference was a small plot deviation, and I mean so small it was miniscule enough to not even mention. it was an ok read but to compare it to Girl on the Train or Gone Girl is a big misrepresentation, it wasn't of the same ilk or of the same caliber.
The Last Mrs Parrish came out the end of last year, this book The wife between us was released this year in January. I'm not saying one is a copy of the other because clearly they would've been in editing and publication queues around the same time, but it's highly coincidental how alike the books are.
the Last Mrs. Parrish was better crafted and executed masterfully.
Confederate Cavalryman vs Union Cavalryman: Eastern Theater, 1861-65
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During the intense, sprawling conflict that was the American Civil War, both Union and Confederate...