The Marinated Meeple (1848 KP) rated Star Wars Canto Bight in Books
Mar 26, 2018
Rachel Maria Berney (114 KP) rated Rage in Books
Dec 5, 2018
King delves into the mind of a high school shooter, it's violent and graphic, it is not tasteless. As Bachman King did some of his best writing.
First Time Last Time
Podcast
A bank robber describing his first and last heists, a BASE jumper on taking his first jump and why...
Bill Cosby: Himself (1983)
Movie Watch
In this stand-up comedy film recorded at a performance in Canada, Bill Cosby engages the audience...
Winter Magic
Berlie Doherty, Abi Elphinstone, Amy Alward and Emma Carroll
Book
A beautiful and classic anthology of frosty, magical short stories from acclaimed children's...
Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories
Book
Fourteen masters of speculative fiction, including two graphic storytellers, from Appalachia,...
anthology short stories
Awix (3310 KP) rated Haggopian and Other Stories in Books
Jun 14, 2019
A really mixed bag, all told: there are a handful of very good stories, like the one the book is named for, and a few others contain promising imagery or moments (an oil rig drills down into something it shouldn't; Lovecraft scholars should be able to guess what), but many others become repetitive and slightly tedious. If nothing else the stories here illustrate that, bereft of the philosophy underpinning Lovecraft's own work, the Mythos trappings just become a selection of campy props and costumes that aren't particularly scary.
Cumberland (1142 KP) rated Forrest Gump in Books
Oct 4, 2018
The great thing about this book is that it is not contained to a single adventure. Even after reading it I don't understand how so many stories manage to fit into a single novel. Each of Forrest's stories flows nicely into the next. This causes the ridiculousness of each adventure to make perfect sense in the overall story.
Anyone who enjoys the movie needs to read this book. It is an easy to read masterpiece that stands far above other stories of its kind.
Awix (3310 KP) rated The King in Yellow in Books
Aug 12, 2019 (Updated Aug 12, 2019)
The best of these stories do have a sense of subliminal encroaching madness and unease, as symbolised by the mysterious play mentioned in the title and its associated motifs, which is very impressively created. However, much of the remainder is a set of essentially interchangeable tales of rich young Americans studying art in Paris and swooning over beautiful young mademoiselles; they are quite heavy going and possibly not worth the effort of reading. The opening few fantasy stories are very good, on the whole; the rest not so much.
Exhalation: Stories
Book
From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the...