![]() The music fits incredibly well to capture the tribal setting that humanity has found itself back into without it being too anachronistic. ![]() This movie came out before CGI was used to replace the world rather than augment the world, and so you have real sets in real woods and real costumed creatures, and it just pulls together nicely. Other than the spot on casting, which is enjoyable and fun and really well portrayed, what brings you into this film are the sets and sceneries. But they aren't hell-worthy trespasses, and are forgivable for the sake of propelling the plot forward. Sure, there are a few plot holes, and yes, there are a few scenes that could have done better. Instead it takes a story, updates and tweaks it just a bit and creates a delightful world of it's own. The original is a good movie, and this doesn't really need to be it. ![]() ![]() A lot of folks complain that it wasn't "the original", and that's okay. I have a theory that if you can watch a movie twenty years or so after it was initially released, it's probably a good movie. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Although Dion did not finish first, he felt he had won something far greater and promised to bring Gobi back to the UK for good to become a new addition to his family. In the past he had always focused on winning and being the best, but his goal now was simply to make sure that his new friend was safe, nourished and hydrated. The lovable pup, who earned the name ‘Gobi’, proved that what she lacked in size, she more than made up for in heart, as she went step for step with Dion over the treacherous Tian Shan Mountains, managing to keep pace with him for nearly 80 miles.Īs Dion witnessed the incredible determination of this small animal, he felt something change within himself. ![]() In 2016, Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner, unexpectedly stumbled across a little stray dog while competing in a gruelling 155 mile race across the Gobi Desert. Like A Streecat Named Bob before it, Finding Gobi is a truly heart-warming story for animal lovers worldwide… ![]() ![]() ![]() "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived and died in it.FROM WIKIPEDIA:William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (OctoJanuary 22, 2003) was an American editorial cartoonist who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his work. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid."The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Bound in cloth boards with titles present. ![]() SIGNED gift inscription on first page.DJ has shelf-wear, rough edges, torn top back. ![]() ![]() DESCRIPTION:WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER FOR SALE THIS BOOK TO ADD TO YOUR LIBRARY.A Great Gift for Christmas !!!Hardcover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jitterbug Perfume is one of my favorites of Robbins novels bc it is an epic tale. If I’m having trouble getting in to new books reading an old favorite often help me get back in the groove. If I see a one at a book sale, yard sale, or free for, I have to take it! Books like this, I love bc they are very helpful in kickstarting a good reading habit. I can’t remember where I got it, but his books are those that I can never leave behind. The copy I read this time was pretty beat up. ![]() His fantastical but solid writing style reminds us to find the magic in the everyday, the whimsical in the mundane, the love in ourselves and others and in nature. It’s a great book to read every few years, as are all Robbins early novels. I’ve probably read this book a dozen times. Alobar, the immortal king, Priscilla, the genius waitress, Pan, the goat god, perfumers, shamans, monks, psychedelicists, and beekeepers are only a few of the people you’ll meet through this fantastic love story. Robbins 4th novel spans time and space, myth and reality, love and loss, gods and men, and does a jitterbug the whole way. ![]() ![]() ![]() From spiritual retreats and crumbling nirvanas to war zones and New Delhi nightclubs, it is a journey that only a woman on a mission to save her soul, her love life?and her sanity?can survive. Holy Cow is Macdonald?s often hilarious chronicle of her adventures in a land of chaos and contradiction, of encounters with Hinduism, Islam and Jainism, Sufis, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians and a kaleidoscope of yogis, swamis and Bollywood stars. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. ?Within.? Thus begins her journey of discovery through India in search of the meaning of life and death. Discover Book Depositorys huge selection of Sara Macdonald books online. ![]() ?I must find peace in the only place possible in India,? she concludes. Just settled, she falls dangerously ill with double pneumonia, an experience that compels her to face some serious questions about her own fragile mortality and inner spiritual void. For Sarah this seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love, and it almost kills her, literally. When the love of Sarah?s life is posted to India, she quits her dream job to move to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India?and for love?she screamed, ?Never!? and gave the country, and him, the finger.īut eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure – Sarah Macdonald | In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. ![]() ![]() ![]() He can't even attend a demonstration without being dragged onstage and handed a mike. He's surrounded by friends who remember what he did a few years ago and regard him as a hacker hero. ![]() ![]() Marcus can leak the archive Masha gave him-but he can't admit to being the leaker, because that will cost his employer the election. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. It's incendiary stuff-and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful Little Brother, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco-an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state.Ī few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. ![]() ![]() ![]() She longs for a child of her own, and being around Kyle's two young sons, not to mention the man himself, is sweet torment. When Kyle hires Alf in her daylight persona to track down dirt of the Lords of Chaos, her two worlds begin to collide. But she knows nothing more can come of it. Having chanced to meet Kyle before and being deeply attracted to him, she can't resist coming to his aid when he's attacked by assassins and then giving in to her desire to kiss him afterward. She's lived in these undercover personae for so long, she hardly knows who she is anymore. By day, she's the street urchin boy, Alf, who is the best purveyor of information in London by night, she masquerades as the infamous vigilante known as the Ghost of St. But as luck would have it, he's saved by a masked stranger, who has great skill with a blade, who bears the unmistakable curves of a woman, and who dares to kiss him following the battle, leaving Hugh desperate for more and to uncover the identity of this beguiling creature.Īlf has survived for years on the mean streets of St. While in the midst of his investigation, Kyle is accosted in a dark alley by some ruffians who clearly intend to murder him. ![]() He's worked as a spy for the Crown and is now being sent to identify and infiltrate the members of the Lords of Chaos with the intent of bringing them to justice. Hugh Fitzroy, the Duke of Kyle, is a widower, a father, and the illegitimate son of the King. Evernight Teen Summer Kick-off Blog Hop. ![]() Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Launch. ![]() ![]() And I think that the people they were had no chance of lasting, but the people they became apart do. I loved how we got both their perspectives on both the past and present, and how they both grew strong as seperate people and then together. Keira had some growing up to do, and some hard facts to face about herself and their life together. He did the work, and just wanted the best for everyone. I loved how Storm was so steady, calm and honest. ![]() I had so high hopes for Storm, and it delivered on every level. I think this is the best redemption story I’ve ever read. In the previous books we got small glimpses and hints that the cheating while they were toghether wasn’t what it seemed, and honestly – no one can blame him, or her, for what they did after they seperated. ![]() Maybe because they seemed so broken, and despite everything they clearly belonged toghether. But there was just something about Storm and Keira that made me want their story anyway. Cheating is one of my biggest triggers, and normally I refuse to read books with that in it. This is the story I’ve been waiting for from the very beginning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though deep down all he wants his for his brothers to have a future. In Rules of Attraction, Alex is very brotherly and sometime a pain in the ass as said by Carlos. Alex was never willing to permanently hurt anyone or kill them when he was with Latino Blood. He is willing to hurt the people he loves most to protect them from harm (almost ruining his relationship with Brittany). Alex puts up a wall to hide his true feelings, but when Alex lowers that wall he can actually be a fun guy to be around. ![]() On the inside Alex actually truly loves his family and his friends (Paco) so much that he was willing to join a gang (Latino Blood) so that his brothers wouldn't have to. ![]() From the outside Alex appears to be a tough guy, who never backs out without a fight nor refuses any challanges no matter what the odds are or what the challenge. ![]() ![]() Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.Īfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. ![]() As a second generation German-American whose grandmother lived in Germany during WWII, I related to the premise of this book a great deal, but needed to be in the right mindset to read it. I’ve had the advance reader copy of this book for longer than I’d like to admit, and just recently got around to reading it. First published in German as Heimat: Ein Deutsches Familienalbum ![]() |