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Having read other comments on Amazon, I’d say they are pretty fair, even the critical ones, after all, particularly with comedy, one man’s meat is another man’s poison! I was recommended this film, and enjoyed it enough to watch a couple of times and now recommend myself.
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Groundhog Day (Collector’s Edition) [DVD] [1993]
I know anyone reading this will probably feel like they’ve read it before.. Ok, enough deja vu joking, other people beat me to it. My favorite was the one who hadn’t seen the joke..’it is not a film I would want to watch more than twice, having seen it on television once already, 10 years ago’..hope you don’t mind me saying, but don’t you preview the comment before you post it?
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Riding In Cars With Boys [DVD] [2001]
This film, based on the true story of Bev Donofrio, is no mere ‘chic flic’. Touching and funny, we found ourselves involved with the characters and the problems they faced, including Bev’s teenage pregnancy, and subsequently bringing up her son, often alone, Ray the hopeless husband, and Faye, best friend but seen as a bad influence.
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The Cone Gatherers: A Haunting Story of Violence and Love (Canongate Classics)
This short novel must rightly be regarded as a modern classic. It has been compared to ‘Of mice and men’, but the focus is not just on the cone gatherers, but also the complex figure of Duror, the gamekeeper. The challenge put by Robin Jenkins, I believe, is the dichotomy, or division between good and evil, and the different feelings about imperfection, as expressed by the characters..
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‘Sunset song’ is a hauntingly beautiful tale. I came to it whilst living in North-east Scotland. Sunset song, and the companion novels making up ‘A Scots Quair’, are written in a blend of English and Scots words that only at first seem strange or daunting, you soon find that Grassic Gibbon evokes a lost age in a unique and very effective manner, using very little dialogue (in italics), but talking to the reader all the while..
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Anyone visiting northern Scotland today often begins by admiring the unspoilt wilderness,but soon notices the stone walls of former houses scattered on the landscape. Caithness was not as badly affected as Sutherland, but the population is still one third of the figure 100 years ago. It may be easy to think that the drift away from rural isolation to the cities, and emigration, was by choice, or economic necessity, but this is simplistic..
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The Old Straight Track (1927) by Alfred Watkins
My casual interest in ley-lines stems from my teenage years, when I, like others, found it possible to connect ancient sites on OS maps in the way Alfred Watkins describes. I found it worth investigating, and discovered ‘The Old Straight Track’ to be far more coherent in explanation of ley-lines, and related features, than much of what has been written since.
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Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets: Study of Assyrian Tables of Israel (1985) by E Raymond Capt
As I am not a British Israelite, what can I say about the core belief, that peoples descended from the ten tribes of Israel, taken into captivity by the Assyrians, eventually settled in the British Isles? Since in a general sense, we accept a Near-east origin of civilisation..
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America BC: Ancient Settlers in the New World
In 1976, Professor Barry Fell summarized the evidence that Columbus was not the first to cross the Atlantic, rather, settlers and traders from Egypt, Libya, Carthage, Iberia and Ireland all left tangible remains on American soil.
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When I initially picked up this book, I bought it on the strengh of the subjects it covers. In brief these are: Dealing with manipulators, Dealing with difficult clients, supervisors,co-workers,and subordinates. It can be seen that it emphasises workplace tensions. When you consider that we often work with people we may never normally choose to..
