Smashbomb

"A big, bold novel that spans six decades of the 20th century and opens with one of my favorite lines in literature: ""It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me. Earthly Powers is like a big over packed old mansion you enter and never want to leave"

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Richard Dawkins recommended Red Strangers in Books (curated)

Red Strangers

Elspeth Huxley | 2006 | Fiction & Poetry, Romance

(0 Ratings)

Book Favorite

"This epic saga sweeping through four generations of life among Kenya’s Kikuyu tribe is a novel of Steinbeckian stature neglected by literary connoisseurs. Huxley leads us into the Kikuyu world so that, when the British arrive, they seem as alien as invading Martians. Her descriptive powers rival Steinbeck’s, but her imagery is drawn from the Kikuyu mind. A felled tree ‘tottered like a drunken elder.'

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InfernalNinja (49 KP) rated the PlayStation 4 version of Control in Video Games

Jun 9, 2020

Control

2019 | Action/Adventure

7.1

(11 Ratings)

Video Game Rating

Engaging story (1 more)

Fun gameplay

Can be a bit repetitive (1 more)

Traversing the map can be somewhat frustrating

Ticks all the scifi Boxes

While not necessarily groundbreaking, Control takes the best of the scifi tropes and spins it into an engaging story and fun gameplay. Mysterious government agency: Check! Slew of mental powers: Check! Main character trying to find out how it all connects to their past: Check!