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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Although, it didnt provided the actual text of the Tao Te Ching it did offer the lessons it brings forth, explaining these lessons through the art of storytelling. I appreciated how he organized these lessons throughout the book as well, starting off with the easier of the lessons to learn and further sorting them into sections that hold common themes. I was able to glide easily through the reading, understanding even the harder of the lessons through the stories being told, using the stories as almost a guide in explaining the lesson.

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David McK (3632 KP) rated Passengers (2016) in Movies

Mar 15, 2020

Passengers (2016)

2016 | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

7.3

(39 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Sci-Fi romance starring Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence (with support from Michael Sheen and Laurence Fishbourne) as two travellers aboard an interstellar vessel, who awaken out of hibernation 30 years into a 90 year journey (I think those are both right) to their new home planet, with no means of getting back to sleep or of waking up any other passengers or crew.

What follows, then, mostly - of necessity - follows those two characters (and Sheen's android bartender), asking just what you would do in their circumstances? How would you live out your life?

Beautiful cinematography and some fancy effects, however, can not fully make up for (at times) as dull as dishwater and leaden pacing ...

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Legend of Hell House (1973) in Movies

Mar 21, 2020

Broodingly effective British horror movie is strikingly unlike anything else of its time - not much resemblance to a movie by Hammer, or Amicus, or AIP. Four people move into a haunted house for a week; their beliefs about the supernatural vary, but they are forced to agree there is something funny about the place...

Understated, almost pseudo-documentary atmosphere works in the film's favour; the actors also know to underplay it until the big histrionics are required. Unsettling soundtrack by radiophonic genii Delia Derbyshire and Brian Hodgson is a major plus. The script goes a bit nuts towards the end (don't think too hard about the plot) but the journey to get to this point is more than worthwhile.

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AT (1676 KP) rated Upright Women Wanted in Books

Feb 13, 2020

Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey | 2020 | Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

I had read a brief synopsis of this novel online, and wanted to try it out. I wasn't 100% sure what to expect, besides possibly weird. I enjoyed it. It's a short novel, but it's a good slice-of-life story, set in an old western-type of environment. It's sci fi, being set in a futuristic world, as far as regulations and how the government is running things. But the journey that the characters have to take is like an old western type of story. I enjoyed the growth of the main character in the short amount of time that she was given in this novel. It was an entertaining, quick read.