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Michael Korda recommended Great Expectations (2013) in Movies (curated)

 
Great Expectations (2013)
Great Expectations (2013)
2013 | Classics, Drama
(0 Ratings)
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"David Lean again, in perhaps the best translation of a Dickens novel to the screen, and surely the greatest of Dickens’s novels too. Crisp, brilliantly cast, a flawless rendition of the period, and amazingly faithful to the novel, Great Expectations is the model that every Masterpiece Theater rendition of an English classic strives to emulate, only better, far better than that."

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Andre Gregory recommended Jules and Jim (1962) in Movies (curated)

 
Jules and Jim (1962)
Jules and Jim (1962)
1962 | Drama, Romance
7.0 (1 Ratings)
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"I totally agree. How could I ever choose between a Matisse and a Vermeer or a Rembrandt and a Hockney—or between this Matisse and that Matisse? And we are different people at different times of our lives, with different tastes. When I was twenty, I loved Dostoyevsky, and now I can hardly get twenty pages into one of his novels."

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Erika (17789 KP) rated The Initiation / The Captive Part I (The Secret Circle, #1-2) in Books

Sep 30, 2019 (Updated Oct 1, 2019)  
The Initiation / The Captive Part I (The Secret Circle, #1-2)
The Initiation / The Captive Part I (The Secret Circle, #1-2)
L.J. Smith | 2008 | Paranormal, Young Adult (YA)
6
7.3 (10 Ratings)
Book Rating
I read the Secret Circle novels after they announced the television series.
These books are alright, LJ's writing is so intensely readable, I still love it, after all these years.
The reason I think these two books are just ok was because I wasn't really a fan of the main character. If you like LJ Smith, this series is definitely readable.
  
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Smashbomb (4687 KP) created a post

May 13, 2017 (Updated May 13, 2017)  
SMASHBOMB NEWS

Just a little update to all our Smashbombers - the books category is now live!

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Dalicat (20 KP) rated charlie parker series in Books

Aug 30, 2018  
charlie parker series
charlie parker series
John Connolly | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
9.7 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Intriguing characters combined with organic and wholly unpredictable plots. Combines heartbreaking tenderness with terrifying menace both human and (maybe) supernatural. (0 more)
Charlie Parker has captured my soul
I picked up one of these novels off the Library shelf at random and have been unable to stop reading the series since (currently awaiting the next one). These novels tackle all the great themes of love and loss, of Good and Evil, of fall and redemption. The author's journalistic background is evident in the painstaking research that has been carried out to create these works. Charlie Parker is the most intriguing and multidimensional fictional detective I have encountered. Oh, and John Connolly's prose sometimes makes me have to stop and catch my breath so I can pause and just reread the magical combination of words I have discovered like diamonds in a mine.
  
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David McK (3798 KP) rated The Eagle in the Sand (Eagle, #7) in Books

Jan 30, 2019  
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The Eagle in the Sand (Eagle, #7)
Simon Scarrow | 2007
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Last book (so far) in Simon Scarrows Macro and Cato series to include the use of the word 'Eagle' in the title - before the series as a whole was rebranded - and the first book to be set in the Eastern provinces (unlike the earlier novels, set in and around Europe).

The events of this one, instead, take place in Judea, mainly centring around a small fort on the outpost of the Roman Empire. While its not essential to have read the earlier novels, it may help, with the occassional passing reference to earlier events.

I also have to say that it could be easy to take offence at the way certain famous historical personages - one in particular - are portrayed, but at the end of the day, this is only a work of fiction and doesn't purport to be anything but.
  
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Deborah (162 KP) rated The Roots of Betrayal (Clarenceux, #2) in Books

Dec 21, 2018  
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The Roots of Betrayal (Clarenceux, #2)
James Forrester | 2011
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Roots of Betrayal carries on where Forrester's first novel, Sacred Treason, left off. Really you need to have read the first book before this as it will make much more sense.

It is a real page turner, but on reflection, the plot itself is almost a sideline to the characters and scenes of fighting, torture, etc going on around them! Plenty of blood is spilled during the novel, so not one for the faint hearted!

Forrester homself, alias historian Ian Mortimer, may rail against the description of his novels as historically accurate, but there is certainly a good period feel in the novel, although I'm not sure I'd be hopping in the TARDIS just yet to pay a visit to William Harley if these novels are an example of an average day at the office for him!