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The Songs

Charles Elton

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From the bestselling author of Mr Toppit, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick, comes a riotous, darkly...

Yoga and the Pursuit of Happiness: A Guide to Finding Joy in Unexpected Places

Sam Chase

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Everyone is looking for happiness, but very few really know where to find it. Maybe it's that house...

Black House

Stephen King and Peter Straub

8.8 (12 Ratings) Rate It

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Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer travelled to a parallel universe called The Territories to...

The Talisman

Ian Williams (18 KP) rated Facebook in Apps

Sep 23, 2018

Facebook

Communication, Entertainment, Events, Social Networking

7.6

(435 Ratings)

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Being able to contact friends and family from around the world without waiting to long for a response. (0 more)

Facebook is a brilliant idea but some people don't need to put on when they are doing personal and unimportant stuff. The adverts are a real pain especially if watching a video have the advert at the end of the video not ten seconds after its started. (0 more)

There are many useful things on Facebook and also many useless things when an update is being done I think asking the users what they want to see or remove might an idea but keep it to minimal amount otherwise no updates would get done I understand you can please everyone but would be nice if someone tried.

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Imagining the Past: Historical Fiction in New Kingdom Egypt

Colleen Manassa

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Five hundred years before Homer immortalized the Trojan Horse, the ancient Egyptians had already...

Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated Under the Blue in Books

Jul 7, 2024

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Under the Blue
By Oana Aristide
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A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world?

Meanwhile two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos, and he is an advanced AI program. Every week they feed him data, starting from the beginning of written history, era by era, and ask him to predict what will happen next to the human race. At the same time they're involved in an increasingly fraught philosophical debate about why human life is sacred and why the purpose for which he was built - to predict threats to human life to help us avoid them - is a worthwhile and ethical pursuit.

These two strands come together in a way that is always suspenseful, surprising and intellectually provocative: this is an extraordinarily prescient and vital work of fiction - an apocalyptic road novel to frighten and thrill.

This was a case of don’t judge a book by its cover I wasn’t expecting much from it to be honest. But I actually liked it. We follow two different stories that some how come together in the end one of 3 people trying to escape the pandemic and nuclear fall out and then 2 scientists developing an AI. While I liked it the ending left me feeling a bit flat! But it is worth a read.