Rob Halford recommended Cowboys from Hell by Pantera in Music (curated)
Taskmaster
TV Show
Taskmaster is a British comedy panel game show originally created by British comedian Alex Horne...
Heather Cranmer (2721 KP) created a post
Dec 7, 2021
Hands up alias charades and heads up activity game for fun friends company
Games and Entertainment
App
Hands up – Charades, Activity and Alias in one app! Exciting game for friends will make your party...
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Games and Entertainment
App
Hands up – Charades, Activity and Alias in one app! Exciting game for friends will make your party...
MyPoint PowerPoint Presentation Pro
Productivity and Business
App
Control PowerPoint presentations that are running on your computer. Rehearse your slide show while...
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution
Book
From The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative...
Lenard (726 KP) rated Battle of the Sexes (2016) in Movies
Oct 16, 2017
David McK (3372 KP) rated The Running Man in Books
Jan 28, 2019
Written by Richard Bachman (aka Stephen King), this is set in a future dystopia where the gulf between the rich and the poor has widened even further, to the extent that, while the rich have access to new gadgets, medicine and groceries, life is a daily struggle to survive for the poor (who are now treated as vermin by the rich).
The top TV shows are all game shows (OK: like the movie); in all the poor are more-or-less tortured (the shows have names like 'Swimming with Crocidiles' or 'Treadmill to Fortune') to earn money. Of these, the most popular by far is 'The Running Man', which is - basically - a televised manhunt.
This is a pretty quick read - only took me about one day - with the Ben Richards of the novel far more sickly and wasted than the muscular Arnie of the film (Steve Buscemi, perhaps?), with the novel also covering a wider area of land than the Running Man set of that movie (which, remember, is only set in four zones - here, it's more-or-less right across America). The ending is also far more downbeat!
David McK (3372 KP) rated T2: Infiltrator in Books
Jan 30, 2019 (Updated Sep 27, 2020)
This (obviously!) follows the events of T2, with the Connors hiding out in Paraguay after having ended (or so they think!) the Skynet threat. Of course, this proves not to be the case, with a 'master terminator' (the Infiltrator if the title) sent back in time (again) to make sure that Cyberdyne's work carries on. This 'master terminator' takes the form of a female - T3, anyone? - and is actually a human hybrid rather than a machine in her own right (so, basically, a cyborg), so that she is better able to infiltrate the humans she hunts (in the future, and in the present). In this respect, she's probably closer to the original vision of the Terminators as somebody you could walk past in the street, rather than the hulking Arnie of the movies!