All That Remains: A Life in Death
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The incredible memoir from the Sunday Times Bestseller. Professor Sue Black breathes new life into...
Warriors of the Wilderness (The Wilderness Series Book 4)
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Readers will find themselves gripping the pages of their books in anticipation of what comes next. ...
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Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
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M. E. Thomas is a high-functioning non-criminal sociopath. She is charismatic, ambitious and...
Too Good To Be True (Shetland Island, #6.2)
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Too Good To Be True is a gripping Quick Read from Ann Cleeves, featuring Detective Inspector Jimmy...
David McK (3918 KP) rated Gladiator (2000) in Movies
Nov 20, 2024
The slave who became an Gladiator.
The Gladiator who defied an Emperor.
A gripping tale, is it not ..."
So says Joaquin Phoenix's Emperor Commodus towards the end of this movie, talking to his erstwhile friend Maximus (Russel Crowe), after seizing power in the early parts of the film and believing the General to be dead in Germania (as per his command) and after also killing Maximus's wife and son.
The plot, then, basically, is a straight A to B revenge.
This, I believe, is also the film that launched Russel Crowe and Phoenix both to stardom - I struggle, personally, to think of any other since where either have been as electric as they are in this movie.
It may also help that they have a stacked supporting cast, including the likes of Oliver Reed (in his last onscreen role), Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi and Djimon Hounsou and some spectacular action scenes of the Roman games ...
The Olive Tree
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We were unbreakable. We were strong, and we were resilient. Just like the olive tree. Nisma...
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The Devil's Wrath
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In a universe teetering on the brink of annihilation, four heroes rise to confront the ultimate...
Paoletta: An Eye for an Eye
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Exiled to a Caribbean island, Paoletta Cadoville and her family cling to the hope of one day...
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First Daughter
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In the summer of 1895, President Grover Cleveland and his pregnant wife, Frances, retreat to their...
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Bethr1986 (305 KP) rated Witches, Spiders, & Schemes (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #4) in Books
Nov 27, 2021
Hayden is settle in destiny falls although there are still murders and mysteries she is happy living her life, the only thing she is worried about is her father should of been back 2 weeks ago from his trip to Gladstone. where Is he? What has gone wrong?
I love Elizabeth's gripping style of writing in these series she describes everything with such vigor and detail that you can almost smell, see and feel everything that's happening. She certainly had me hooked on these books and I cannot wait for the next one to come, I'm guessing that the series will come to and end eventually and I will be bitterly disappointed when the time comes I love escaping to destiny falls the bonus of having a book is that you can always revisit the story and that is something I will deffinatly be doing!
4/5 stars please read it!