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Stevie Nicks recommended Out of Africa in Books (curated)

 
Out of Africa
Out of Africa
Karen Blixen | 2011 | Biography
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This memoir recounts the time Karen Blixen (a Danish author) spent in Kenya from 1914. When I saw the 1985 movie version with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, it just killed me and inspired me to read the book. Both make me sob so much I can hardly breathe. Later, my assistant gave me a beautiful old copy, which makes me treasure the story more. I even stayed in the Karen Blixen suite at the Hotel D’Angleterre in her native Copenhagen. The relationship between Blixten and the Safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton broke my heart. It’s a book about finding and losing love"

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The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
1955 | Drama, Mystery
9.0 (5 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"The Night of the Hunter was Charles Laughton?s only film as a director and its poor reception pretty much killed his directing career. It?s a remarkable debut and there?s no other film quite like it. It?s very reliant on imager from back in the days of D.W. Griffith and it?s strikingly designed and extremely dark. I saw it at a kiddie matinee when I was a child and I was just terrified. It has such a fairy tale atmosphere about it that it probably speaks more directly to children than it does to adults."

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The Book of Boba Fett
The Book of Boba Fett
2021 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Mandalorian 2.5?
So, Boba Fett.

Bounty hunter working for Jabba the Hutt.

Fell into the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi.

Reappeared in season 2 of The Mandalorian.

And now has his own series.

Or does he? Only 7 episodes long, this is very much a series of two halves: the first half full of flashbacks to what happened to Boba between the time of his escape from the Sarlacc pit (and how he managed that) and his reappearance in Season 2 of the Mandalorian, while the second (and better) half is more akin to The Mandalorian season 2.5!