Fyodor Dostoevsky: in the Beginning (1821 1845): A Life in Letters, Memoirs, and Criticism
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More than a century after his death in 1881, Fyodor Dostoevsky continues to fascinate readers and...
Girl in the Dark
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"An astonishing memoir" Sonali Deraniyagala, author of Wave BOOK OF THE WEEK ON BBC RADIO 4 'Oh,...
Zwilling J.A. Henkels Complete Book of Knife Skills: The Essential Guide to Use, Techniques & Care
Jeffrey Elliot, Zwilling J.A. Henckels and James P. DeWan
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Every home chef needs a knife skills book. Cooks who know how to choose a knife, how to maintain it...
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
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As well as being a prize-winning, bestselling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2357 KP) rated The First to Lie in Books
Jan 18, 2021
This book is a twisty thriller, and the less you know going into the story the better. Once again, Hank Phillippi Ryan has concocted a story that kept me engrossed from start to finish. Along the way, we get the story from several different points of view and in two distinct timelines, but it was always easy to follow what is going on, and all that information came into play before the story was over. I liked and sympathized with most of the characters. There was one character I found very annoying. We were supposed to find her annoying, but even so, she bugged me. I did feel like the timeline was a little off in one part, and I believe there was a continuity error as well. Overall, these are minor issues as I enjoyed the book while I raced to find out what was going to happen next.
Andy K (10823 KP) rated Hobo With a Shotgun (2011) in Movies
Aug 31, 2019
You have to be in the right mood to watch a movie like this. Watching cool practical effects means everything was performed on the set without the use of separate visual or CGI effects. These were obviously used exclusively back in the day before ILM and the many CGI effect groups which exist today. I still feel generally speaking they are more realistic and don't take you out of a scene like bad CGI does.
Your friendly neighborhood hobo gets fed up with the local town's hoodlum brothers and their father owning the police and generally making life miserable for everyone so he decides to take the law into his own hands and dispense his own quick justice. while he is at it, he also removes other scum from the Earth including pedophile Santas and convenience store bandits.
He befriends the girl toy of one of the hoodlums and she becomes his sort of partner in crime when she is not getting sawed into and generally degraded in every way.
When I was looking through IMDb at the career of now the late Rutger Hauer, I was amazed on how many truly bad movies or most I had never heard of he had done in his career. Not saying he was the best actor, but he did have screen presence (especially in Blade Runner) which not every actor has.
He will be missed.
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