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#TLT @dabbe

62 out of 100, way more than all my previous ones. So many of my favorite movies are on this list, too many to choose just three. I also see they've stretched the definition of "thriller" to the breaking point. So in that spirit, here are my top 3 movies that are absolutely NOT thrillers:

? Titanic
? The Wizard of Oz
? E.T.

Tag @RaeLovesToRead @MegaWhoppingCosmicBookwyrm @CBee @Ruthiella @IndoorDame

RaeLovesToRead I love that you love Titanic 🤣🤣💕 1mo

RaeLovesToRead Near.... faaaaarrrr.... wherevvvver you are. I believvvve that the heart does..... go oooonn 1mo

Ruthiella Thanks for the tag. 😊 1mo

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The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead I don't think you actually read what my list was. 😂 1mo

The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead I suppose someone who adds a half-dozen books to her collection every day has to do a lot of light skimming. 😄 1mo

dabbe AFI definitely stretched the definition of “thriller“, didn't they? 😂 Thanks for playing and sharing. 🖤🧡🖤 1mo

RaeLovesToRead I read it several times. Top non-thriller movies on the list?? 1mo

The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead No! ? The three movies that least meet the definition of "thriller". 1mo

The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead Trust me, Titanic would never make any list of things I like. (And I should be predisposed to like it, given that I first saw it on a movie date with a girl I used to work with, but even then it was 🤮😂). 1mo

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Susanita

Rear Window | Cornell Woolrich

I did better on this one: 39/100. Here are the highlights in no particular order.
1. Rear Window
2. Casablanca
3. 12 Angry Men
Honorable Mention to China Syndrome for Michael Douglas and his spectacular hair.
Here‘s the link if you want to take the survey: https://shorturl.at/4KF8L
#TLT

dabbe

dabbe MD's hair: 😂 Oh, how I love 12 ANGRY MEN. Best jury drama ever! Thanks for playing and sharing. 🖤🧡🖤 1mo

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The Gutter and the Grave (EBK) | Ed McBain

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I liked this one! It did some pretty unique things for the genre.

Bookwomble

Human? | Judith Merril

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"Crucifixus Etiam" by Walter M. Miller Jr is the final story, and a case of leaving the best until last.
Manue Nanti is a Peruvian manual worker in a work team terraforming Mars. His high-altitude physiology needs less expensive support to breathe the thin Martian atmosphere, but this results in irreversible biological changes that make a return to earth at the expiry of his five year contract unlikely.
If there's such a thing as ⬇️

Bookwomble ... pessimistic optimism, Miller captures it, along with the dignity of working for something greater than oneself.
The book as a whole is varied and generally of an above average standard. The clunkers were a lesser offering from H.G. Wells, and one by John Collier that was both the wrong kind of humour for me, and too far over the racist line for me to make allowances for its age. These two aside, excellent stuff 4⭐ 2mo

swynn "Crucifixius Etiam" is a favorite of mine. 2mo

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Bookwomble

Human? | Judith Merril

"Make no mistake. A man may hate and be strengthened and ennobled by it. Let us by all means hate oppression and injustice, hate greed and the cruelty of ignorance and fear. Hatred, so cultivated, is a precious thing - but tend it well. Multiplied too rapidly, dropped carelessly in too fertile soil, allowed to cross with ignorant prejudice, blind self-seeking, it may bloom at last into death and destruction for us all. ⬇️

Bookwomble ... Guard your hatred well, then, and sow it sparingly.“

- Who Knows His Brother, by Graham Doar, 1952

Written in the aftermath of WWII, in a world of atomic destruction, McCarthyism and the Civil Rights struggle, Doar's epigraph seems currently relevant, and the post-apocalypse story that follows, a striking cautionary tale. (edited) 2mo

GingerAntics Which means that one of the American political parties is using as a how-to manual. 2mo

Bookwomble @GingerAntics Hopefully not, as it's a post-atomic war, mutation inhabited, tribal conflict, subsistence level wasteland 🤯 2mo

GingerAntics @Bookwomble they are open to destroying the environment and making more nuclear weapons. They are very excited to go back to the 50s. I fear, they really are. 2mo

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Bookwomble

Human? | Judith Merril

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"The Gnarly Man" by L. Sprague de Camp
I love stories about Neanderthals surviving into the present, and this is a good one about an immortal hominin whose current "undercover" identity is Coney Island sideshow curiosity "Ungo-Bungo". He unwisely breaks cover when approached by anthropologist Dr. Matilda Saddler, and faces the possibility of the re-extinction of his species.

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Bookwomble

Human? | Judith Merril

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"Who Shall I Say is Calling?" by August Derleth
Maryla and her brother drive by chance past a country house where they see a masquerade party in progress. Deciding to gatecrash, they are readily accepted as attending in the guise of Count and Lady Dracula, despite not being in costume! ??‍♂️??‍♀️
Derleth's dialogue is archly humourous, and the reader's suspecting more than the partygoers about the nature of the siblings is delicious ?

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BibliophileLibrarian

Tarzan of the Apes | EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

Reading this with a friend of mine for our 2-person book club. Pretty good so far!

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Bookwomble

Human? | Judith Merril

"my ambition is to get
my time as a cockroach shortened for
good behaviour and be promoted
to a revenue officer
it is not much of a step up but
i am humble
i never ran across any of this
ectoplasm that sir arthur
conan doyle tells of but it sounds
as if it might be wonderful
stuff to mend broken furniture with
archy"
- ghosts by Don Marquis

Bookwomble After swagging a load of Holmesian books today, I hadn't expected to run across Sir ACD in this SF anthology, but here he is, referred to by Don Marquis' Archy the cockroach, the reincarnation of a suicidal free verse poet.
My apologies for spamming your feeds today - I've been on my own while Mrs B and her crew went to Radio 2 Party in the Park, and my ADH has run a bit wild! 😜 3mo

dabbe Spam away! 🤩 And that picture? 😱 3mo

GingerAntics I‘m not sure what‘s happening in this picture, but it sure is creepy! 3mo

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rwmg Because we associate Holmes so strongly with the 1890s, it's very easy to forget Conan Doyle lived on to 1930 and died after Kafka. 2mo

Bookwomble @rwmg Indeed. The Great War was an enormous impetus for his shift towards spiritualism, so 20th century history was certainly something he was affected by, and which he affected in turn. 2mo

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Bookwomble

Human? | Judith Merril

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Margaret St. Claire, writing as Idris Seabright, was one of a few women writing SF in the '50s, a sexist, male-dominated industry that clearly influenced her story, "An Egg a Month from All Over".
George Lidders is a creepy incel type who women warn their young daughters away from. Since his mother's death, his only occupations have been "pretty unpleasant" fantasies about women, and his Egg A Month subscription, which provides enthusiasts with ⬇️

Bookwomble ... specimens to incubate and hatch their own alien life forms. Unbeknownst to George, this month's Chu Lizard egg has been mistakenly substituted for a Mnxx Bird egg. This is not good for George... 3mo

psalva There was an interesting story of hers in the Hitchcock collection I read recently. I‘m going to seek out some of her other pieces. This one sounds intriguing as well! 3mo

Bookwomble @psalva She sounds like an interesting person from her Wikipedia bio. As well as holding her own as a writer in an unwelcoming, or at best patronising, environment, she was also a Wiccan at a time in the USA I imagine you could still be burnt at the stake for that in the wrong state. 3mo

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