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The Portable Veblen

Elizabeth McKenzie

6.0 (2 Ratings) Rate It

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A laugh-out-loud love story with big ideas - and squirrels SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE...

Paris: Poetry of Place

Hetty Meyric Hughes

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Whether you're a backpacker from Idaho on your first visit, or a cultural swallow on an annual...

Ocean's Eleven (2001)

8.5 (29 Ratings) Rate It

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George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle go for broke to pull off the...

Andy Gill recommended I Heard It Through The Grape Vine by Marvin Gaye in Music (curated)

"Who was it who did it before Marvin Gaye? They did it slower and more piano-driven. But I knew this version first and you could see the difference, how this version took the earlier version and streamlined it, sped it up, made it groovier, those kinds of things. When I first heard it, I had not heard anything quite as funky. The groove is just incredible, which has a lot do with the bass line. It's fantastically cool and sexy. A friend of mine from years ago was a barrister. He was trying to tell me The Beatles were fantastic. And I was trying to tell him the trouble with The Beatles was they don't groove. And he said, ""What is groove?"", like a typical magistrate. I said, ""Listen to 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine. That's groove."" It's like trying to explain, without pointing, what the colour red is."

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David Schwartz recommended Videodrome (1983) in Movies (curated)

Videodrome (1983)

1983 | Horror, Sci-Fi

7.9

(14 Ratings)

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"David Cronenberg’s reflexive masterpiece of modern horror, with James Woods as a seedy purveyor of soft-core exploitation for cable TV, and Debbie Harry as his siren, brought the media-as-message theories of fellow Torontonian Marshall McLuhan to visceral life. This was one of the first movies I rented on VHS, and Videodrome is partly an exploration of the strange, clunky physical sensation attached to the idea of a feature film being available on a paperback-size plastic-and-tape cassette that is inserted into a machine . . . and our brains. A quarter century later, Cronenberg’s dazzling vision of a world where image and flesh are one—“long live the new flesh”—Videodrome’s futuristic vision is timelier than ever. And above all that, the movie is sexy, smart, funny, and fascinating, moving adeptly between its layers of reality, imagination, and that vast territory in between."

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Branded (Sinners, #1) in Books

Jan 6, 2021

Note: This is only getting a four star because of the ending; it seemed a little rushed and I would have liked it to be a little longer. I would have gladly given it 5 stars if not for that.

Nevertheless, I really, really, really liked this. It was the forbidden romance aspect mostly I think, add in one sexy, appealing guard who doesn't much care for his job and one innocent prisoner and whew! Blown away!

I was obsessed from the first page to the last and I didn't want to put my kindle down! It was action packed, romantic, heart-breaking...

With how it ended I'm unsure how the next book will go in the series. Will it continue with Cole and Lexi's story? Or will it centre on someone else and involve these two lovebirds? Either way, I look forward to reading the rest.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Hearts of Fire (Hearts, #2) in Books

Jan 8, 2021

I was entranced by the cover of this a long time before I realised it was part of the Hearts series. I'd not long since finished the first book which I loved, and I couldn't wait to read more books in this series, and it was only after I'd bought this that I realised it was Jack's story.

I did enjoy this, just not as much as the first. Jay just fascinated me with his magic and the whole back story and everything just blew my mind. This one, Jack seemed hot and sexy and the fire-breathing...but it didn't grab me as much. I wasn't as sucked into the story.

The description for the third book in the series has me intrigued as to what King's story will be about and I've already got it on my kindle to read but I'm not going to read it yet.

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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Dark Light (Dark Light, #1) in Books

Jan 11, 2021

DNF@22%

So several things;

One: I've had this on my kindle for about 5 years and is one of the earliest books i downloaded as a freebie--back when i hoped i could get some good books for free.

Two: My tastes have changed in that time. Maybe it's my having read books 5-12 of Kim Harrisons The Hollows back to back, and currently reading book 13 but this just didnt interest me in the slightest.

Three: The kinda creepy Dorian character. The way he's described in this at the earlier points is some sort of sinister but very sexy looking guy. His name just makes me think vampire, and the initial description made me think weirdo so the fact that she's basically salivating over him..? Not working for me.

So all of the above combined? Yeah, the book is most definitely not for me.