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IT movie review
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I’m always apprehensive of movie adaptions of my favourite books. And IT is one of my favourite (Top five, maybe even top three) books of all time. It’s a showcase of everything Stephen King does best. Not just horror. King books are never just about the horror. IT is about family and friendship, love, good and evil, loyalty, trust, and so much more.
So it was with some unease (and
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“I believe in the devil, all right, but man don’t need no help from Satan to do what folks call ‘evil.’ Man do evil ev’ry day and call it doin’ their job.” The Reformatory is one of those popular books where very early on I had a ah, I get it mome" Read more of this review » |
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Like many horror books and movies, this one promises so much, builds so much, but then collapses like a house of cards when it comes to tying everything up. Initially I loved this. It was creepy and high concept and dripping with atmosphere. But atmo ...more |
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“Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.”
― The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
― The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
“Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire.”
― The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
― The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
“A flicker of someone else’s memory came to Simon and he picked up Excalibur from where he had dropped it. Carefully, he laid Excalibur on Arthur’s chest. A smile crossed the king’s pasty face as he closed his grazed hands around the sword’s hilt. The touch of something so familiar seemed to give Arthur cause to close his eyes and after a final, relieved breath left his lips, he died.”
― The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
― The Prophecy of Three: The Keys of Time
“Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.”
― Attack of the Fiend
― Attack of the Fiend
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
― Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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Emily May wrote: "Hey, thanks for the add.I had to accept when I saw you're from Pontefract - I spent most of my life there! I was born in Normanton :)"
That's a pretty cool coincidence. Looking forward to talking books with you.
Hey, thanks for the add.I had to accept when I saw you're from Pontefract - I spent most of my life there! I was born in Normanton :)