panFinished this Metal Earth AT-ST model while listening to the Batman Returns novelization. Pretty disappointing. The narrator was all over the place with his voices, Max Shreck being particularly rough. There was a lot more misogyny from the Penguin in this adaptation, which was weird. Stick with the movie.
pickRoddy McDowall provides excellent narration of the novelization of the 1989 Batman movie. Fans of the animated series will know him as the voice of the Mad Hatter, and you can just tell he is having a blast when he gets to cut loose with the Joker scenes! The novelization is fine; a few scenes omitted, not much added. Definitely worth a listen in audio, though.
pickThis is the novelization of Rose, the restart episode for the newer Doctor Who. It was good, but some of the additions seemed a little trite.
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#TuesdayTunes when American Graffiti came out it was some young people‘s first exposure to 50s & early 60s music .The film had bit parts for the then not well known Harrison Ford & Suzanne Summers. What stands out from the Big Chill, Rolling Stones “You can‘t Always Get What You Want” could be considered a key song in the plot. Not uncommon in that era for a group to allow it in film but not the soundtrack. To garner sales for their album?
pickI unashamedly give this 5 💎, while accepting that at least one of those points is due to nostalgia. However, given this has feels of the Edwardian ghost stories of E.F. Benson and M.R. James crossed with a sci-fi take on higher-dimensional physics, with multiversal entities engaged in an eons-long conflict waged between malignant psychic incursions and anthropomorphic elemental beings, it's right in my wheelhouse, anyway.
"The figure raised its head very slowly and then turned its body, equally slowly, to face Rob.
The figure has no face. No features. There was only a darkness under the strands of hair, where a face should have been. Just a blackness. A nothingness."
There's some creepily effective descriptions from Hammond, as befits a screenwriter, but I had to restrain myself from adjusting the punctuation towards the end ?
"All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension.
Transuranic heavy elements may not be used where there is life.
Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel.
Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."
This quote is from the TV show opening credits rather than the book, and is about the only explanation given about who/what the MCs are. Wonderfully enigmatic ?
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Weirdly, I was not only thinking about Sapphire and Steel a couple of days ago, but had an online trawl for the novelisation and decided it was that bit more than I wanted to pay, only to find it today at the same bit more, but the nice man accepted a lower offer, so here it is! 💎🔩😍
The Frank Herbert has a great Ian Miller cover, and it's Frank Herbert 😁
Human? Has some big name authors, and also another fantastic cover!
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