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Ben Wheatley recommended The Shining (1980) in Movies (curated)

 
The Shining (1980)
The Shining (1980)
1980 | Horror
8.4 (102 Ratings)
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"So yeah, The Shining is a film that I watched initially when I was a kid. I remember we used to just get like piles of videos out from the video rental places and so I’d watched it with, you know, Videodrome, Cannibal Holocaust, Carrie, stuff like that."

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David Gray recommended To Your Scattered Bodies Go in Books (curated)

 
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
Philip Jose Farmer | 2020 | Science Fiction/Fantasy
(0 Ratings)
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"Take 19th century explorer Richard Francis Burton, resurrect him by a river on a strange world, naked. Add a Neanderthal, a Holocaust survivor and an alien, and a quest to discover what the hell this is all about, and you’ve not even scratched the surface of Farmer’s first Riverworld book."

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CassidyTristyn (189 KP) rated Escaping the Holocaust: A True Story in Books

Aug 14, 2018  
Escaping the Holocaust: A True Story
Escaping the Holocaust: A True Story
Julian Padowicz | 2018 | History & Politics, Horror, Young Adult (YA)
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
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Good length for young readers
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I have read several Holocaust novels and each one never fails to give me new insight into that dark period of history. This book was no different. Having very recently read The Book Thief I was curious as to how much I'd like this book since I loved the other, and overall I enjoyed the read. Overall it took me maybe three hours to read the book. It is suggested for 5th-7th graders and I agree that is an appropriate age group despite the content. While it discusses World War 2 and the Holocaust it doesn't have any gory or too intense content that younger readers couldn't enjoy it. The story itself is a narrative of ones boys experience of his time in Poland when World War 2 began. He details him and his mother's journey across Poland and eventually into Hungary. It gives an innocents perspective on the events of war. It's a short read if you are just looking for something quick and entertaining. It would also be a good book to use to introduce your child or any young reader to dark topics such as the Holocaust.
  
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Cassie Osbourne (6 KP) rated Selected to Live in Books

Nov 9, 2018  
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Selected to Live
Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner | 2006
4
4.0 (1 Ratings)
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Interesting and heartfelt (as all Holocaust stories are) but towards the end it got very preachy. I commend this woman for being able to stay optimistic and keep hold of her faith after all that she went through, but when the words ÔGod is goodÕ are on every few pages I tend to lose interest.
  
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Awix (3310 KP) created a poll

Nov 4, 2019  
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It seems topical to ask: what do you think The Shining is really about?

Alcoholism

8 votes

Annoyed Indian spirits

0 votes

Kubrick 'fessing up to faking the Apollo Moon landings

2 votes

Kubrick just wanting to tick off Stephen King

1 votes

The Holocaust

0 votes

The Minotaur

0 votes

None of the above, it's just a scary movie about a hotel with a weird floorplan

15 votes

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Bruce Wagner recommended A Lover's Discourse in Books (curated)

 
A Lover's Discourse
A Lover's Discourse
Roland Barthes | 2002 | Computing & IT, Romance
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"And speaking of which… (Jeffrey Eugenides nearly ruined him for me - cf. The Marriage Plot - but I’ll get over it.) What has become some sort of bullshit semiotic touchstone for asshole academics is in fact terrifying, pathetically human: he’s like a tender mathematician — perhaps more like Primo Levi — dissecting the holocaust that is Love."

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