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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
(0 Ratings)
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"This novel is cited by many of my author friends as the best in the English language. I, too, am awed by its beauty and intelligence, so much so that I sometimes feel I should stop writing. (I won’t.) The narrator of this story has been bestowed with telepathic powers by virtue of the time of his birth. This proves useful in recounting his life, which is coincidentally wrapped around historical events in India. Rushdie injects much political criticism of the powers that came to be, and this trait in his writing recalls for me George Orwell’s treatise on why we write: politics has much to do with it."

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Relight My Fire
Relight My Fire
C. K. McDonnell | 2024 | Contemporary, Horror, Humor & Comedy, Mystery, Science Fiction/Fantasy
10
10.0 (1 Ratings)
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: read one of these books, and you’ll need to read all of them!

Relight My Fire has flying people, an unusual amount of people with strange powers, all sorts of dead people, and Stella still trying to hide her powers.

And if that doesn’t make you curious enough to start at book one and work your way up to this fourth book, then there’s really no help for you. Sorry, I don’t make the rules (I do, obviously 🤷🏼‍♀️).

So do yourself a favour, and go and read The Stranger Times books, because they’re really THAT good.
  
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)
2012 | Action, Sci-Fi
6
6.9 (33 Ratings)
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Why another version
Same story boy gets bitten by spider get unbelivable powers. I know there was different version of the comic in many ways but, why ruin a good thing. Emma Stone is good but no better than Dunst. I also didn't buy Goldberg as spider man