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Benedick Lewis (3001 KP) rated Origin in Books

Jul 13, 2018

Origin

Dan Brown | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

7.3

(21 Ratings)

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Short chapters (0 more)

Research appears to have been done on Wikipedia (1 more)

Although chapters are short, nothing happens

Slow and poorly written...that’s just the title

I enjoyed The Da Vinci Code. It was a book of the time and it felt like a blockbuster, which is what it eventually became. I then read Digital Fortess and Deception Point (not part of the Robert Langdon mythology) and they did the job as well. I felt, yeah, alright, that was worth two pounds (GBP).
Then I didn’t touch Dan Brown again. Simply because I had other things to read and the premises weren’t that interesting - until Origin, which looked like it would be as shattering as the Da Vinci Code was. What I forgotten was I got older and more educated. Origin promises answers to two questions: where did we come from? Where are we going? These questions are repeated constantly and you start to get Rednex’s Cotton Eye Joe in your head. For about 100 pages the build up is admittedly incredible but at the same time you think you know what is going to happen because there are 300 plus pages left. I won’t spoil anything and I advise you not to read the blurb because that does 25% of the book for you. From then on, apparently it is a race against time but you never truly feel anything is at stake. When the answers do come, you feel like ‘oh, right’ as if someone told you a fact you didn’t know but not really going to remember. And, in summary, Origin is so badly written that you won’t remember it.

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Justin Taylor (59 KP) rated Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) in Movies

Oct 31, 2018

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

2017 | Action, Adventure

8.1

(305 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Great comedy (3 more)

Relatable villain

John Hughes-esque movie disguised as a superhero movie and I dig it

Lots and lots of references

Not exactly a good or bad thing but I honestly think it makes too many references to the MCU (0 more)

Best spider Man movie

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While Tobey maguire will always be my spider man, Tom Holland is the second best (at Least he's better than Andrew Garfield) and Micheal Keaton is an awesome villain. The cast of side characters are hilarious and the jokes are on point. And the two side characters that stand out to me are Ned and Zendaya's character Michelle which later to be revealed that her nickname is MJ (do I smell an upcoming romance that they'll probably explore more in Far From Home?) Also there's no mention of Mary Jane or Gwen Stacy for those who haven't watched this movie and don't care about spoilers are wondering

Also there are tons of references to the spider Man mythology so make sure your following along.

If I had to pick one negative although not a bad thing its just it tries too much to tie in to the MCU although the stuff with reusing elements of the MCU weapons is kinda cool although Luke cage beat them to that plotline and let me make it clear referencing the universe isn't a bad thing because they bring stuff up that'll be important later on in either the upcoming sequels or the next avengers movies but when they do it constantly it just kinda distracts me but if u love the marvel movies like I do then u won't have a problem.