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Hospitals of London
Rob Higgins, Veronika Chambers and Fred Chambers
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Since the eighteenth century, the hospitals of London have played a leading role in the development...
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You're not scared of a little eight legged arachnid, now are you? For many people, spiders top...
A Field Guide to the Birds of South-East Asia
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This is the first-time flexi-cover edition of this classic field guide, which is the definitive...
Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Oil Palm: Introduction, Breeding and Cultivation Techniques: Volume 1
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Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care...
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Kyera (8 KP) rated I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl in Books
Feb 1, 2018
I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl follows Beas attempts to translate her status in high school into a scholarship winning mathematical formula. Simple right? Beatrice, Spencer, and Gabe are not the most popular kids at school to be honest theyre practically invisible. Most people call Bea Math Girl and she wants that to change. She convinces her friends to embrace and exploit a personality trait that fills a void in their school so that they can become popular.
Gabe agrees because he is a writer for the school paper and hopes to be chosen for an internship as a result. He becomes the schools flamboyant, gay best friend and almost immediately is absorbed into the popular inner-circle. Through his acceptance, Spencer and Bea, now known as Trixie, become known around the school. She must embrace her new personality but doesnt always make the right decisions.
I personally did not relate to her, despite her love of math and didnt create a connection. I completely agreed with the opinions of her friends about her behavior. I didnt find myself being sympathetic to her plight and was frustrated more than anything by her repeated mistakes. She meddles in other peoples business, doesnt take the high road and even though she accepts her mistakes at the end it doesnt feel, to me at least, that she has grown over the course of the novel.
Despite the book being formulaic, it was an enjoyable read I just wish it wasnt so predictable. It doesnt take long to figure out who is going to be the romantic endgame, what friendships will be formed and enemy status established. At the end of it all, you wonder will they realize that it is more important to be true to themselves than to be popular? I think you know what the answer will be.
The book has a fair amount of diversity and representation in it, which is good. I wish each of those various representations was given more detail and thought than being an intermittent descriptive word. It felt more like adding the token LGBTQ+ or ethnically diverse character. We dont often enough see diversity in books, so it was a little disappointing to me that it so little was done with it.
Overall, I think that it was a quick, contemporary read that young adult/teen readers will enjoy. It is cute, if predictable but the unique aspect of the story of using math to solve lifes problems was quirky and endearing.
Gabe agrees because he is a writer for the school paper and hopes to be chosen for an internship as a result. He becomes the schools flamboyant, gay best friend and almost immediately is absorbed into the popular inner-circle. Through his acceptance, Spencer and Bea, now known as Trixie, become known around the school. She must embrace her new personality but doesnt always make the right decisions.
I personally did not relate to her, despite her love of math and didnt create a connection. I completely agreed with the opinions of her friends about her behavior. I didnt find myself being sympathetic to her plight and was frustrated more than anything by her repeated mistakes. She meddles in other peoples business, doesnt take the high road and even though she accepts her mistakes at the end it doesnt feel, to me at least, that she has grown over the course of the novel.
Despite the book being formulaic, it was an enjoyable read I just wish it wasnt so predictable. It doesnt take long to figure out who is going to be the romantic endgame, what friendships will be formed and enemy status established. At the end of it all, you wonder will they realize that it is more important to be true to themselves than to be popular? I think you know what the answer will be.
The book has a fair amount of diversity and representation in it, which is good. I wish each of those various representations was given more detail and thought than being an intermittent descriptive word. It felt more like adding the token LGBTQ+ or ethnically diverse character. We dont often enough see diversity in books, so it was a little disappointing to me that it so little was done with it.
Overall, I think that it was a quick, contemporary read that young adult/teen readers will enjoy. It is cute, if predictable but the unique aspect of the story of using math to solve lifes problems was quirky and endearing.
Andy K (10821 KP) rated Get Out (2017) in Movies
Jan 7, 2018
Great set up (1 more)
Interesting characters
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I admit to being extremely late to the party on this one. I was luckily able to avoid hearing anything about the film until I saw yesterday.
In reading the ratings given by others, it is interesting they go from 1 to 10.
While I was skeptical over the hype, especially now considering this film is nominated for several awards. I just thought "isn't this another cheap horror film crap"?
I thought the first hour of the film was great with homages to other horror classics like The Stepford Wives or Rosemary's Baby, but enough original material to keep me interested.
I didn't even mind the big reveal as you have to go along for the ride in a horror film like this.
I just thought the ultimate resolution seemed not up to the level of the rest of the film and was forced or someone just thinking "we have to end the film now". I wish there would have been a more clever conclusion up to the standard set by the beginning of the film.
I'll also say this film certainly doesn't deserve any award recognition especially if people are just doing so to fill some sort of diversity quota.
In reading the ratings given by others, it is interesting they go from 1 to 10.
While I was skeptical over the hype, especially now considering this film is nominated for several awards. I just thought "isn't this another cheap horror film crap"?
I thought the first hour of the film was great with homages to other horror classics like The Stepford Wives or Rosemary's Baby, but enough original material to keep me interested.
I didn't even mind the big reveal as you have to go along for the ride in a horror film like this.
I just thought the ultimate resolution seemed not up to the level of the rest of the film and was forced or someone just thinking "we have to end the film now". I wish there would have been a more clever conclusion up to the standard set by the beginning of the film.
I'll also say this film certainly doesn't deserve any award recognition especially if people are just doing so to fill some sort of diversity quota.
Jcadden76 (64 KP) rated the PlayStation 4 version of Grand Theft Auto V in Video Games
Jun 11, 2018
Trevor (3 more)
The story mode
Vehicle selection and vehicle physics
Size and diversity of the map
Let me cut the radio off as default in the cars (2 more)
Building skills in side quests - ehh...
Storyline economy
Trevor makes the game for me.
This is my favorite GTA game so far. I know that sounds ridiculous, of course it is, but I LOVE the story line in this one. There is something about the ease of moving between the main characters, their skill sets, and of course the way they interact, kept me wanting to move the story along and having to remember that I needed to do side quests for money and other things.
In particular, Trevor made the game for me. Steven Ogg is a tremendous actor and his voice being lent to the character of Trevor Phillips was perfect casting. I want a pre-GTA5 game where I get to play as Trevor for the whole game.
The multiplayer is my stumbling block. I like it, I get the attraction, but it has not hooked me. I have played a little in it, I enjoy the race series but that is about all.
I am looking forward to the next GTA game already.
In particular, Trevor made the game for me. Steven Ogg is a tremendous actor and his voice being lent to the character of Trevor Phillips was perfect casting. I want a pre-GTA5 game where I get to play as Trevor for the whole game.
The multiplayer is my stumbling block. I like it, I get the attraction, but it has not hooked me. I have played a little in it, I enjoy the race series but that is about all.
I am looking forward to the next GTA game already.