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Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Lord of Illusions (1995) in Movies

Sep 23, 2020

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Lords of Illusions- is Clive Barker's last film he directed. He only producted movies and was a writer for movied afterwards. And wow what a good movie. Im not the hugest fan of hellraiser and didnt see nightbreeds yet. So i went into this film blind. I have heard of this film and wanted to see it for couple of years now. And it turns out that i liked it.

The Plot: Private eye Harry D'Amour (Scott Bakula) travels to Los Angeles and meets with a new client, Dorothea Swann (Famke Janssen). Swann reveals that she and her husband -- famed magician Philip Swann (Kevin J. O'Connor) -- have been targeted by a religious cult experimenting with reincarnation. After Philip dies on stage in the midst of a dangerous trick, D'Amour must struggle to protect Dorothea from the ruthless cult members and their newly reanimated religious leader, Nix (Daniel Von Bargen).

Its a good psychological film cause it does mess with your mind alot and in the end it is a good horror flick. I do recordmend it to others.

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Ethics for a new Millennium

Dalai Lama

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Don't miss His Holiness the Dalai Lama's classic book, The Art of Happiness, or his newest, The Book...

Thumbing Through Thoreau: A Book of Quotations by Henry David Thoreau

Kenny Luck

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On July 4, 1845, when Henry David Thoreau moved into his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond, he was...

Erika (17789 KP) rated The Oracle Year in Books

Apr 22, 2018

The Oracle Year

Charles Soule | 2018 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

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This book was a selection for Book of the Month this April. I chose it because Charles Soule has written some of my favorite comics.
This book is about Will Dando, who receives several predictions from one dream. He posts select predictions on 'the Site' and he is known as 'The Oracle'. The government is after him, and religious sects are calling his the devil/blasphemer. It was impulsively readable.
But, it was just good. It wasn't great. Which, was a bummer. Because though it was readable, there was nothing new about it.

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David McK (3692 KP) rated Orcs (Orcs: First Blood, #1-3) in Books

Jan 30, 2019

Takes an interesting perspective on the good old fantasy troupe of the Orcs, telling the tale from their perspective rather than having them as the antagonists. All three novels (and the short story), however, are pretty linear in the telling: battle here, move on a bit, battle here, move on a bit, skirmish here, despite the somewhat tacked on religious sub-plot.

In short, a simple, undemanding read, but not as effective (or as funny) as Mary Gentle's "Grunts", which also tells the story from the point of view of the Orcs.