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Five Feet Apart (2019)
Five Feet Apart (2019)
2019 | Drama, Romance
Five Feet Apart is the story of Stella, a high school sophomore who has cystic fibrosis. We first meet her when Stella admits herself to Saint Grace Hospital for one of her "tune-ups" while her two best friends are going on a nice tropical vacation. Also in the CF ward is Poe, her homosexual best friend, and Will, a 17 going on 18 year old sort of rebel. Female-centric "Rebel Without a Cause" crossed with "The Fault in Our Stars" as the two fall hard for each other unable to get closer than 6 feet next to each other. If they get much closer, they could catch the other's bacterial infection and die slowly and painfully. This lighthearted romance (natch) breaks your heart while instilling the importance of human touch. Directed with limited skill by the actor who plays Rafael on Jane the Virgin, Five Feet Apart is a nice distraction, but not highly recommended if you want high quality.
  
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Colin Newman recommended Tabula Rasa by Arvo Part in Music (curated)

 
Tabula Rasa  by Arvo Part
Tabula Rasa by Arvo Part
1984 | Classical, Experimental
10.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"People who didn’t live through that period or weren’t old enough to know what was going on somehow imagine that there was this fantastic post-punk thing going on. That’s all made up in hindsight. Really, everything was pop of the most plastic kind. And a lot of it was quite terrible. Though I did like Madonna’s “Like a Virgin,” which came out in 1984. There was a real thing in the early-to-mid ’80s about modern classical music; there was a lot of that stuff around, and those were the more interesting things. If you know Tabula Rasa and know anything about the music that I’ve been involved with, you might struggle to find how I would connect with that kind of music. But it’s not really experimental music. It’s very emotional. It doesn’t have the form of a song but it’s not far from the world that Eno was exploring with his Ambient series."

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Dave Mustaine recommended Lovedrive by Scorpions in Music (curated)

 
Lovedrive by Scorpions
Lovedrive by Scorpions
1979 | Rock
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Album Favorite

"Come on, 'Another Piece Of Meat'! What a great song with a cool solo. And 'Lovedrive' itself has such a great attitude. When you listen to Klaus Meine's lyrics on this record, they were probably the coolest of all of theirs. When you gravitate to love song-type lyrics, you run the risk of alienating part of your fan base if you go there too much. Not a lot of guys want to be hanging out and lifting weights to love songs. A song, to me, should be something that makes you want to fight or have sex. It should make you feel so charged that you need to let it loose. Visually, from the second you looked at the cover, you knew it was dangerous. Virgin Killer went a little too far maybe – a little too gnarly. But using controversial artwork to help sell your album when your music is that fabulous… I'm all for that."

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Lash (The Skulls, #1)
Lash (The Skulls, #1)
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2.0 (1 Ratings)
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DNF @27%

Yeah, I've decided I don't like MC (motocycle club) books too much. I don't get the concept of them and some of their rules just pee me off.

What the hell's up with this one?

A guy who--in her own words--says 'she didn't realise he had ever noticed her' suddenly goes all dark and brooding on her one night, drags her upstairs and starts kissing/touching her and she just lets him? When she's a virgin? Really? Cos I'm not buying it.

He then orders her to come to terms with his interest in her and that she's now his and she just rolls with it?

If I'm going to read and enjoy a MC book I need a kick arse, smart-alec who gives as good as she gets and I'm sorry but--I can't even remember the main characters name :/--she wasn't that for me.

Will not be reading the next books.