Uprooted: How Breslau Became Wroclaw During the Century of Expulsions
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With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau,...
Ian Fleming: A Personal Memoir
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With a foreword by Fiona MacCarthy OBE. This is Robert Harling's account of his close and enduring...
Once Upon Another Time
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Storybook characters collide in this first book in a new trilogy of twisted fairy tales from New...
Orbis
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Orbis is a tactical game of world development and strategic resource management, in which players...
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My Little Pony: Rarity Loves Fashion
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Fun-filled interactive My Little Pony iReader that kids will love to read and play! Ruckus...
Jordan Binkerd (567 KP) rated The Scorpion King 3: Battle For Redemption (2012) in Movies
Oct 27, 2019
-The Mummy Returns: At the end of his life, the Scorpion King leads an army to take over and subjugate the world, aided by Anubis, which proves that the Egyptian gods are, you know, gods.
-The Scorpion King: Mathayus is ostensibly the last living Akkadian, and leads a revolt against an evil king who....wants to take over and subjugate the world. Some tragic irony there, knowing where he ends up.
-The Scorpion King II: Rise of a Warrior: There's a whole kingdom of Akkadians, and Mathayus leads a revolt against the general who killed both his father and the rightful King, usurping the throne. Given that just a decade or two later the entire race has been wiped out, maybe putting the rightful heir back on the throne didn't end well?
Which brings us to this movie, featuring numerous human characters with the names of the Egyptian pantheon (maybe named in homage to their gods, but it feels like the idea is that these men will be mistaken for God's by myth and legend) and doubles down on the "conquest is evil" theme. Mathayus has lost his queen and kingdom from the first film to plague, reduced to being a mercenary again. The action primarily happens in Egypt and.... Cambodia? Vietnam? Thailand? Somewhere around there, with little explanation of how the characters go that distance. This just makes the whole thing more inconsistent and convoluted. I shudder to think about the damage the next one will do....
Cracking Windows Phone and Blackberry Native Development: Cross-Platform Mobile Apps without the Kludge
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You've developed a killer app for one mobile device-now it's time to maximize your intellectual...
The Breakfast Bible
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When it comes to the most important meal of the day, this is the book to end all books, a delectable...
Soccer Star 2017 World Legend
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Become the best soccer player in the world. Lead your team to victory scoring crucial goals in the...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2109 KP) rated The Hidden Corpse in Books
Mar 27, 2019
This book has a very strong mystery with plenty of questions that need to be answered. The suspects were strong as well, and they kept me guessing until the end. In fact, I was certain it was several of them at various points in the book, yet the final solution made perfect sense. Hope is a great main character as well. My biggest issue is the supporting cast. I feel like they are still fairly thin characters, and several of them are annoying. I hope they get more fleshed out as the series progresses, allowing us to like them more. Since I am a blogger (but not a food blogger), I found that aspect of Hope’s life very interesting, although her world is very different from mine. And, speaking of food, there are six delicious sounding recipes at the end of the book.