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Can't believe I found this in near perfect nic at Salvos for $5. What a find, now my collection wouldn't be complete without it.
Something about the single page of Superman just barely surviving from getting sucked into a black hole was an intense and surreal moment. It was just him alone out there, and just like that he could have unceremoniously been killed without anyone being the wiser, humanity just left to wonder where their hero went.
Multiple great stories here, quite profound and a special way to end the Superman story post Crisis on Infinite Earths.
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The best era of Superman and honestly DC in general. The moment of Lana Lang saying it isn't Superman she cares about, it's Clark she loves, while he ultimately turns her down just hits in a particular kind of way.
Best insight was learning about the Islam misunderstanding of the Old Testament, this is very useful to show that the Quran is not inspired as claimed.
The author in my opinion is actually too kind to Islam, stating that Islam is akin to
John 4:22 - You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
However I think it is much clearer upon studying Muhammad that he was in fact visited and influenced by satan.
Great read if you have the movie pretty solid in your mind. Doesn't give many lyrics or even all of the songs which is a bit frustrating if you want to sing along in your head as you read.
Own and have read both 'The book of the film' and 'The Junior Novel' and can confirm they are the same.
Was great but didn't give us much on Judgement and I had to skip the stuff on 4 and 5 because I couldn't care less about those games.
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I enjoyed my time, definitely not in love quite yet though. I understood the first half of the book was about character and world building, and I have no issue with that, particularly because I thought the whole journey with taking the stone to Black London was going to be the whole three books, and so I was a bit taken back with the speed of the second half.
The first half nothing was really happening, I didn’t know what the story was, and then that Holland bloke shows up and the story and proper conflict actually begins, and it was a pretty good time.
But then Kell kills him, which was quite anti-climactic. There was clearly some history between them, and I figured again he was going to be the main protagonist throughout. And to be honest all of the antagonist deaths felt quite anti-climactic, there was some kind of fight where Kell gets his ass kicked, but then he pulls one quick move and insta-kills his enemy.
(I would have liked something on Holland and Kell before this story, even a whole book about Holland and their relationship so when he’s chasing Kell down there’s two types of tension. That would have explained more so why he didn’t just kill Kell, and his death would have made more sense, as Kell said something like he saw the move coming and allowed it.)
I’m not used to my main protagonists being as weak as Kell (physically/power level or whatever) which was different. He’s obviously strong willed which I think is a key ingredient to making any likeable character, so that’s good. But yeah he really got the shit kicked out of him pretty easily.
Also didn’t really understand how the magic actually works? I think I get it now after I’ve read the book but it would have been nicer to understand what Kell could do when he was in a conflict, so I could have weigh up his options and chance of survival. Before he got into a fight I didn’t even know if he could fight with his magic.
People with magic - Can manipulate elements, water, earth, wind. Some can manipulate bone which is hell powerful, Kell does blood stuff, but in battles he was suddenly moving metal around which seemed to come out of nowhere, would have been nice to know he could do that (unless I just wasn’t paying attention I guess).
The guards being controlled against their will was really cool (In Red London), but then again Lila just kills that guard boy with no issue. I felt like that should have gone on for a bit, she’s trying to fight him and subdue him but can’t and has no choice but to end his life. I mean I guess she was in a rush but still. Kid was hardly a defence, just a mild inconvenience with no negative repercussions from killing him (which still could come of course, perhaps some moral struggles with Lila, but it didn’t seem that way at the end of the book).
Also are we supposed to understand how the London’s work? There’s 4 different worlds, and the London’s are where they overlap. So if you want to travel between worlds London is the only place you can? Am I right/on the right path or completely wrong?
The biggest positives were definitely the main characters.
I liked Lila, quite enjoyed the relationship between her and Kell, I like their dynamic, and I do look forward to seeing them cross paths again.
I also liked the relationship between Lila and the bloke who owns the pub (Bard?) that Holland killed.
Overall I like Kell and Lila and even Rhy as main characters, which is probably the most important part.
I’m going to give a break before I start the next one though, just got a whole manga set from a geezer off of marketplace so I’ll go through a couple of those before I get back into it.
It took me a while to understand at first if the book really was good. I wondered if all the intelligent and descriptive wording was just fluff, or poetry. But then I realise that the scene I'm reading, is a guy going shopping with one of his, employees, and yet I'm incredibly entertained.
The story has it's intense moments, and the main character goes through his fair share of excitement, but when he's not, it really doesn't matter, it's still easy to be enthralled by the way the author writes.
For a book titled 'The Pimp', it is incredibly well written, and quite sophisticated. It feels like a crime film that takes its time, and is all the better for it. It's slow, but is as far from dull as can be.
If you have an interest in crime novels, or are thinking about gaining an interest, I would absolutely give 'The Pimp' my recommendation. And based off this book alone, I would say you'd be well off picking up any of the novels by Italian writer Giorgio Faletti.
I’d watched plenty of debates and other such things, but I hadn’t read any apologetics books, and I don’t know why. But I started that process with the popular and easy to read Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. And this is kind of what led me to delve into the topic more. A very enjoyable and easy read about a bloke who was once an atheist, then his wife became a Christian and so he used his skills as an investigative journalist to uncover if there really was a ‘case for Christ’, and he became Christian. That’s pretty good.
It’s basically just a series of interviews but written in a novel, story like format which keeps it entertaining. It doesn’t go too deep into every subject, and to compensate there are plenty of resource suggestions at the end of each chapter. This also helps to show that there is value to what these people are saying, that it’s not just coming form them.
If you’re interested in seeing if there is a case for Christ, this is a great place to start.