
Boy 21
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Basketball has always been an escape for Finley. He lives in gray, broken Bellmont, a town ruled by...

Power Struggle (Detective Madison Knight series Book 8)
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One female detective. One Mafia hit man. One score to settle. Murder takes a personal turn for...
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Dead on Ice (A Lovers in Crime Mystery #1)
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Dead on Ice is the first installment of Lauren Carr’s new series (Lovers in Crime) featuring...
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Dragon Fated
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Branded as a demon. Chased by a mob. Life never gets dull for Ashe and Katsu. Throw in a plague and...
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Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated Run All Night (2015) in Movies
Aug 6, 2019
Neeson, Joel Kinnaman and Ed Harris.
Liam Neeson plays Jimmy Conlon, an aging hit man who seems to be trying
to come to terms (and failing) with the bad things that he has done in
his life for Irish Mob boss Shawn Maguire(Ed Harris). Jimmy and his son
Mike (Joel Kinnamen) have no relationship, and Jimmy is alone in the
world except for Shawn.
In a convoluted story line, Shawns son Danny (Boyd Holbrook) tries to
“prove himself” to his father by arranging a deal with some drug running
Albanians, but since Shawn has taken his business away from dealing with
anything to do with drugs because of the people he has lost over that
sort of business, Shawn refuses the deal.
Things quickly head south, and in an even more convoluted story line,
Danny ends up dead, by Jimmys’ hand.
Shawn vows to get even, and the remainder of the movie is spent in car
chases, shoot outs, burning buildings, near escapes, and deaths.
I was pulled into the movie, and found myself caring what happened to
the main characters.
It was rather predictable, in the way that all “Mob” movies are
predictable, with the shooting and car chases etc.
What wasn’t so predictable was the amount of “caring” that Neeson was
able to project and portray and how invested he was able to make me as
an audience member. He played the part of an aging, emotionally and
physically beat down guy, with regrets about his relationship with his
son, trying against all odds to “make it right” this one last time, to
protect his family, at any cost to himself. I was pulling for him to be
able to get it done.
The one part of the movie that i didn’t like was the “swooping” with the
camera angles, when jumping (literally) from one scene or location to
the next in the movie. I found it to be dizzying and I had to close my
eyes until those parts were done.

Eleanor (1463 KP) rated High Heat (Jack Reacher, #17.5) in Books
Jun 12, 2019
Somehow in the course of one day 16 year old Reacher manages to tick off a big player mob boss type, decide to take him on, cross paths with the Son of Sam, and hitch up with a girl. Oh and all this just happens to be the day when the huge 1977 New York blackout occurred (at a very convenient time for Reacher.)
He’s 16 but seems to have the exact same street / military smarts the adult Reacher has, it just doesn't work for me. Some far fetched deductions, the type that are a stretch to believe in the adult Reacher, here just come across as almost comical.
As something to listen to while doing housework it was OK but really wouldn’t of wanted to dedicate more attention to it.

Worth Dying for: The Power and Politics of Flags
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When you see your nation's flag fluttering in the breeze, what do you feel?; For thousands of years...

An A-Z of Hellraisers: A Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety
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"An A-Z of Hellraisers" is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this...

Private: No. 1 Suspect: (Private 4)
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Since former US Marine Jack Morgan started Private, it has become the world's most effective...

The Tin Roof Blowdown
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'The story, about greed and murder and redemption, contains some of Burke's most brilliantly...