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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated In Flight (Up in the Air, #1) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

DNF@18%

As mentioned in my previous updates, I didn't realise when I downloaded this back in 2012/13 that it was BDSM, or I wouldn't have bothered. It's not something I particularly enjoy reading about unless it's heavy on the romance at the same time and Mr Cavendish had already told her multiple times by the 18% mark that he wasn't interested in a relationship, which isn't good in my view. I figure he's likely to change his mind a little further in but I'm already struggling to like him so, you know...and then sex scenes? Nah. Wasn't going how I expected so I give up.

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Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Flatliners (2017) in Movies

Sep 25, 2019

Flatliners (2017)

2017 | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

5.4

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Now, this one amused me... even Wikipedia doesn't care about this movie, its entire plot summary is... "Medical students induce their own deaths to experience near-death experiences." And while that's true I feel like there's more to describe about this film than the unnecessary five heavy paragraphs I read about Home Again.

This film might be okay if you haven't seen the original... might be. But if it ain't broke don't fix it as they say.

What I would say is that there are probably sensible reasons not to watch this, if you have trouble letting go of the past and have anxiety and guilt, maybe stay at home.

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Ross (3284 KP) rated Master of Reality by Black Sabbath in Music

May 22, 2020

Rolling Stone's 300th greatest album of all time

Great album by the grandfathers of metal. Kicking off with the coughing fit at the start of Sweet Leaf and its slow doom-laden pace. While Ozzy isn't the greatest singer, the rest of the band more than make up for it, with superb guitar and bass and fairly intricate, almost jazz-like drumming (which would become unusual for a heavy metal band). Sweet Leaf and Children of the Grave are superb, but the rest of the album is also really good and merits another listen (I usually stick to the We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll collection).

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To Venomous Depths by Cloak

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CLOAK captures the magic, mystique, and mystery of classic heavy metal with their long-awaited debut...

Metal

And the Battle Royale by The Unguided

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"And The Battle Royale" is not just a catch phrase - it's a challenge! Those Swedes incubate a...

metal

David McK (3752 KP) rated The Fast and the Furious (2001) in Movies

Feb 11, 2022

The original entry in 'The Fast and the Furious' franchise, this is a very different beast than it's later sequels (from around the 4th one, just called 'Fast and Furious') would become.

And, surprisingly, those later sequels are generally the better films.

I don't know, perhaps it's because I'm by no stretch of the imagination a gear head, but I do find this to be quite slow, incomprehensible, and largely missing the later hallmarks (I refer, of course, to the outlandish stunts) of those later movies, whilst also an extremely heavy debt of gratitude to the likes of 'Point Break' in the plot department.

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Berserker by Beast in Black

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The metal world was in rage when Anton Kabanen parted ways with his former band BATTLE BEAST back in...

Metal

ashezbookz (32 KP) rated The Gifted (A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery #14) in Books

Jul 5, 2018

Mid range rating - I think I would have found it more entertaining had I read the first books in the series as I was a little lost with all of the characters and all of the names being thrown around - there was a LOT of people in this book.

Overall it was alright - there were moments that were suspenseful and that was fun, there were moments that were glaringly obvious (the whodunit was not as fun as it was a wee bit obvious to me) but the surprise was cool at some moments.

I think the art aspect was cool too, I havent read many books that were heavy in that, though it was also heavy in politics and I didn't like that much.

I also didn't like the authors repetitive use of landmarks/streets/city names - using the city name repeatedly in just a few pages was excessive to me, I get you were trying to make this hometown based or saskatchewan based (believe me I'm from Saskatoon, shout out to the "small towns") but excessive use of Regina and the house address was just frustratingly annoying. There was also the reference to November 24th and plus 10.. have you lived in Saskatchewan?? it's November 22 today and it's going to be -11 feels like -18 .. and the Riders have you seen a game...........that's all I have to say about that one *snort*