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Haley Mathiot (9 KP) rated David Sedaris Diaries: A Visual Compendium in Books

Apr 27, 2018

David Sedaris—Live for your listening pleasure (Audio)
Genre: Radio show
Rating: 4/5

David Sedaris tells story after humorous story, always pulling laughs from his audience (the audio recording is live). This short collection of memoir-esque stories will keep you laughing the whole way through.

The recording features four stories and several diary entries that are sure to have you grinning at the least and crying from laughing at the most.

Content: There was some mild language and some sexual references. Not for the easily offended.

Recommendation: Ages 18+ to anyone who enjoys radio shows, comedy, or just needs a good laugh and a break from reality.

**Thank you to Anna from Hachette Audio for providing my review copy!**

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Kyera (8 KP) rated The King's Locket in Books

Feb 1, 2018

The King's Locket is a lovely story about family and forgiveness. Throughout the short text, there are illustrations of important moments that children can marvel at. This is a book that a parent would need to read to their child, as there are some words that would be challenging for younger readers and require explanation. Overall, it was a cute story and I would definitely read it to my younger cousin when I babysit for her. I think she would enjoy the tale very much. I would probably rate it a 4.5/5 mostly because a child couldn't read it by themselves (although nightly reading to a child is important) thus it felt a little above a child's level at times.

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Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated There Will Come Soft Rains in Books

Mar 15, 2018

This is pretty cool, considering it was written in 1950. This is a story about an automated house doing all its programmed chores on a house not affected by the nuclear apocalypse that's left the entire world empty. With things like Amazon's Alexa and other AI things appearing on the market, you can imagine this is the way people will live their lives in the future, with fully automated houses.

This is quite a sad tale really. No matter how advanced our technologies become doesn't mean we're able to escape death and destruction.

<i>I'm sorry I'm bombarding you with short story reviews, I've just really got into them these past couple of days and you can find so many free online, via https://archive.org/ !! </i>

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David McK (3649 KP) rated Total Recall (1990) in Movies

Jun 21, 2019 (Updated Sep 16, 2019)

Total Recall (1990)

1990 | Action, Sci-Fi

7.6

(71 Ratings)

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Forget the rather pointless Colin Farrell-starring 2012 remake, this is the original (and best) of the 2 movies to share the name, itself based on the Philip K Dick short story 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale' - it bears little in common with that story, however, other than the idea of false memory implants!

Starring a pre-T2 Arnold Schwarzenegger alongside Sharon Stone and Michael Ironside, the main plot of this is actually open to interpretation: are these events actually happening, or is Arnie's character of Douglas Quaid dreaming them? Every thing that happens after he visits Rekall is left deliberately open to interpretation, even down to the film ending with a white out instead of a black out ...

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The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie's classic short story collection, published to tie-in with a new BBC TV adaptation...

El_kincho (51 KP) rated Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) in Movies

Jun 23, 2021

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

2021 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

6.5

(30 Ratings)

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I've always been a fan of the godzilla films . I grew up watching the toho films and they were just fun and it was more the monsters story than about the humans . The newest ones seem to have reversed that and tried to make more of the humans stories rather than the monsters which let's face it ... we want to see giant monsters kicking each others asses . Thats what the films i loved growing up with were about . The fight scenes in this movie were superb but there just wasn't enough of them and the film was too short as well for my taste. But overall I did enjoy it alot.