The Didi Man
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A warm and highly entertaining account of Dietmar Hamman's personal story, The Didi Man was a Sunday...
Code Name, Johnny Walker: The Extraordinary Story of the Iraqi Who Risked Everything to Fight with the US Navy SEALs
Jim DeFelice and Johnny Walker
Book
Night after night, he guided the U.S. Navy SEALs through Iraq's most dangerous regions. A translator...
How Music Got Free: The Inventor, the Music Man, and the Thief
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What links Taylor Swift to a factory worker? Kanye West to a German engineer? Beyonce to a boardroom...
The Monk of Mokha
Book
From the best-selling author of The Circle - the gripping true story of a young Yemeni American man,...
A Different Life
Book
I'm not sure what the older ones thought or knew of the day ahead, as for me, I had no idea, I...
The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Rachael Kushner. In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin...
Dark Chapter
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'Deftly written, pacey and unflinching, I could not put it down. Winnie Li is a rare talent with an...
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Xoe: or Vampires, and Werewolves, and Demons, Oh My! (Xoe Meyers, #1) in Books
Jan 11, 2021
Admittedly I only downloaded/read this because of an A-Z challenge in one of my groups. It's not something I would have picked up of my own doing (that sounds horrible, I know, but it's true.)
I never gelled with the story; the way it was written was too strange for my taste and it didn't seem to have an ease to it. It just didn't pull me in like most other YA books do.
The storyline (what bit I read) was just a little odd: a new guy arrives at school and two of your friends like him like him and you instinctively know he's a little dodgy because he can't stop staring and within days he's been invited out with you and your fiends to the cinema where it all goes downhill. I stopped reading a little after this point.
I just couldn't connect with the story, the characters or the writing style.
Totally not for me, I'm afraid.
Bubba Gee (147 KP) rated The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) in Movies
Jun 29, 2019
Jordan Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) goes from being an honest to God working man to the scammer of all scammers working a pump and dump stock trading system using his impressive hard selling skills.
Donnie Azoff (played by Jonah Hill) is his best friend and ally in this scam, you get the sense that Donnie is really just there for comic relief with a couple of scenes standing out.
This film is an enjoyable raucous mix of sex drugs and rock and roll within a financial office setting.
There are several other notable members of cast in this including Jordans long suffering wife Naomi (played by Margot Robbie) and smaller parts from Jon Bernthal, Matthew McConaughey, Rob Reiner and Ethan Suplee.
Well worth a watch and excellently done by Martin Scorsese as always.
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated The Mercy (2018) in Movies
Sep 25, 2019
I'm sad to say that this film was seen mainly because it was a new and I was running desperately low on things to see. It looked like it might be interesting. But being as I'm terrible with motion sickness, the prospect of watching a film where a significant proportion was going to be bobbing up and down didn't leave my stomach with much enthusiasm.
I wasn't left with much to say about this one. Again, it seems wrong to say I didn't like a story that's based on true life events, but I came away with very little to rave about. It's an interesting insight into how competitive pressure from sponsors and the team change the way events can go, but the film itself wasn't overly memorable.