There is so much to do and so little time! If you are anything like me (and I hope that you are not) you find yourself with a feeling of being overwhelmed by the many options in entertainment. This sinking feeling of dread and stress appears when you are faced with the realization that you […]
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It is common practice to leave a score after a review. This score comes in many different forms. The most common one is probably the 1-10 score. 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. On Goodreads (a site for rating books) you choose 1-5 stars. The Legendary Film reviewing duo Siskel and Ebert
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Reviews are a strange phenomenon to me. There seems to be an abundance of them, and they garner a lot of controversies, yet also remain totally arbitrary and sometimes downright useless. This post is going to be about reviews both in a professional and amateur sense. I am going to look at why they exist,
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After finishing My post on Bioshock, I suddenly thought of making a post specifically about lighthouses. I know EXITING ISN’T IT? Now, it is going to be about lighthouses in media. I will be Exploring what role lighthouses serve in different kinds of media. I found Lighthouses’ aesthetically pleasing and beautiful, but I was interested
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Fahrenheit 451 or as it is known here in Europe 232.7778°C is a dystopian novel written by American author Ray Bradbury. When I did my Brave New World post I compared it with 1984 since both of them have plenty of things in common, yet still managed to be different in key aspects. Fahrenheit 451
Let’s all be real for a moment, self-help books suck. The idea that you can engineer the perfect life is something particularly optimistic. Yes, your life might suck right now, you might feel stuck without any hope for a brighter future. You might be born in a country plagued with constant war and without clean
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Brave New World is often compared to 1948, it is easy to see why. The two books touch on a very similar subject matter. They are both about how a futuristic society controls its people. They both have a man as the protagonist feeling out of place, with a feeling that something is wrong with
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“Never Die” written by Rob J Hayes is an eastern-inspired fantasy novel and it might also be one of the best books to recommend to people who do not read. The book has a nice fast pace, some really cool characters who are a blast to follow and it’s not too long. All these aspects
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