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Chloe (778 KP) rated Charlotte Street in Books

Jun 19, 2020  
Charlotte Street
Charlotte Street
Danny Wallace | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry
4
7.0 (3 Ratings)
Book Rating
Disinterested with characters (2 more)
Creepy premise
Strange
Boring
Received this as part of an instagram book group. I'm glad I didnt spend money on it, not my cup of tea at all.

I found the main character petulant, frustrating and annoying. The story is slow and could do with some better snippets to liven it up. The only reason I really kept reading was to find out if he does actually find her.

Felt the overall premise was quite creepy.
  
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Ross (3284 KP) rated Live at the Apollo by James Brown / James Brown And His Famous Flames in Music

Jul 6, 2020  
Live at the Apollo by James Brown / James Brown And His Famous Flames
Live at the Apollo by James Brown / James Brown And His Famous Flames
1963 | Rock
6
6.5 (2 Ratings)
Album Rating
Rolling Stone's 25th greatest album of all time
Very strange and unsettling live album where James Brown seems to just try to seduce half of the audience, who scream almost the entire time. His performances are very visual so I think you miss a lot by only listening (there are times when the screaming intensifies and you have no idea why). A decent listen but the songs are not his best and the live aspect is similarly not perfect.
  
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Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe in Books

Jan 6, 2021  
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Saenz | 2013 | Children
4
8.9 (14 Ratings)
Book Rating
DNF @ 21%

I like straight-forward romamnces: boy meets boy/girl, get together, live HEA, the end.

I'm not a fan of complicated/family filled/not getting straight to the point stories.

I thought this book would be good and to start with I enjoyed it but it was taking too long getting where it was going, deviating into strange dreams that just totally put me off, hence me DNF'ing the story.

Totally not my sort of thing.
  
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Michael Sheen recommended Matter of Life and Death (1981) in Movies (curated)

 
Matter of Life and Death (1981)
Matter of Life and Death (1981)
1981 | Drama
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"It has a strange beauty about it. It has a deceptively simple story. It has all the classic trademarks of someone who introduces you to a special, magical world, and yet you are able to then see your own world completely differently. There’s always something slightly uncanny about what Powell and Pressburger did — if you think about The Red Shoes or The Tales of Hoffman, and things later like Peeping Tom, films like that. They’re just extraordinary."

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Angel Olsen recommended The Book of Illusions in Books (curated)

 
The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster | 2011 | Fiction & Poetry, Film & TV, Philosophy, Psychology & Social Sciences
(0 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"He becomes obsessed with some Charlie Chaplin character that disappears in the 1930s, and then he gets a strange letter in the mail, and his life changes. I tried to get more people to read it. The first time I read it, I was like 18 or 19, and I loved it. I really like Paul Auster. He’s hit or miss, but I love his books. I read them even if they are shit and they go nowhere."

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