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Jonas Carpignano recommended Nashville (1975) in Movies (curated)

 
Nashville (1975)
Nashville (1975)
1975 | Classics, Drama, Musical
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I was lucky enough to work with Joan Tewkesbury, who wrote Nashville, and the process that she used to make the film is something that I find to be very helpful. She went to Nashville and wrote about the people she encountered when she was there. So in that way, the film was born out of the place. It wasn’t a film that tried to encapsulate the place but a film that tried to grow out of it. There’s so much realness there. For people who didn’t live in that time, that’s the image we now have of Nashville then, in the same way that Paisan created that image of Italy."

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Ron Perlman recommended Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) in Movies (curated)

 
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
1944 | Classics, Comedy, Mystery
8.0 (5 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"He identified in a way that was so joyously American; an innocence and a humanism. Just a beautiful heart, that he had, and was able to put into his work. Adding screwball comedy elements to it, but at the center of which were these important thoughts about how lucky we are to be alive. He was able to do that in ways that are cinematic and entertaining as well. And eliciting these performances — like Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939, 96%) and Gary Cooper in Meet John Doe (1941, 92%), Cary Grant and everybody else involved in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944, 90%)…"

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graveyardgremlin (7194 KP) rated Doppelgangster (Esther Diamond, #2) in Books

Feb 15, 2019  
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Doppelgangster (Esther Diamond, #2)
Laura Resnick | 2010
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Wow, this was a real disappointment. The title was great, and I'll probably never use the term doppelganger ever again, but the story didn't live up to it. As opposed to the first book, [b:Disappearing Nightly|1405551|Disappearing Nightly|Laura Resnick|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183345232s/1405551.jpg|1231526], the humor was nearly nonexistent, the energy and zip lost, the new characters didn't add much and weren't very interesting - heck, even Esther and Max were boring, and the plot just wasn't that good. A hundred pages could have easily been shaved off and they wouldn't have been missed, especially with the mostly boring, redundant blathering that went on between the three main characters (Esther, Max and Lucky). So there were a few good points, mainly Lucky and Nelli, but overall the book meandered too much and took its sweet time getting anywhere; by the two-thirds mark I just wanted it to be over already. Everything was explained over and over again with each new suspect, I felt like it was being spelled out in excruciatingly slow details, in case the reader was too much of an idiot to figure anything out for themself. I hope, hope, hope that this is just a sophomore slump and the next book will be better. Also, keeping Lopez out of the magic loop will get old fast, so hopefully the author introduces it to him by the fourth entry.
  
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Mark Arm recommended Journey in Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane in Music (curated)

 
Journey in Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane
Journey in Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane
1971 | Rock
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"I can't pronounce it either! It's a fantastic record. It's got such a gorgeous mellow vibe to it. It's kind of accessible to people who aren't familiar with jazz, but it also has kind of this free, loose thing. It's not free jazz, it's definitely modal. It's got Pharoah Sanders on it. It's lush and gorgeous and kind of takes you to a different place. Sometimes Alice Coltrane plays the harp, which sounds dreamy. It's one of my go-to's in the morning at work (in Sub Pop) I just kind of put it on to get me going. I probably drive some of my co-workers crazy playing it. You know, there's not a really obvious influence in our music that comes from jazz. I know I'm influenced by it, but I'm not sure how. I don't like all jazz, but certain things I love to death. That's the problem with this list: I can't stick Charles Mingus on it, or Andrew Hill, or Ornette Coleman, or Albert Ayler. One of the things I feel lucky about, my high school friends and I who formed Mr. Epp, we would go to our little record store in our suburban town and the guys there turned us onto The New York Dolls and Ornette Coleman and Ayler and The Velvet Underground, Brian Eno. I feel really lucky to have stumbled into that, at that time."

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Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated The Vow in Books

May 10, 2018  
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The Vow
Denene Millner | 2006
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Three friends vow at another friend's wedding that they are going to find husbands within the next year. Women like Trista, Amaya, and Vivian don't come around a lot, so any man would be lucky to have them. Trista, the Hollywood agent, who is accomplishing everything she set out to do. Amaya, emerging actress who wants just one man, problem: he's married. And Vivian, she has been pining over her baby daddy since the moment she met him, if only she could get him to return the feelings instead of just meeting up for "ex-sex". Will the women be able to accomplish The Vow, or are they meant for other things.
  
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Sarah Thompson (2 KP) rated The Great Alone in Books

Feb 1, 2018  
The Great Alone
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance
8
8.5 (13 Ratings)
Book Rating
I was lucky enough to receive an advanced reader copy of this book for a test read campaign. The storyline built slowly and steadily, with atmospheric descriptions of the harshness of life in Alaska but I found it was slightly repetitive in the first half of the book. The descriptions of the wilderness of Alaska and the light nights and the dark were wonderfully evocative. The storyline then suddenly snowballed in the second half and I was unable to put it down but I felt that the author was rushing to The End as if she had a deadline to meet. It could perhaps have benefited from having a longer page count!