Advantages: Characters are written so well that you can almost predict what they do next Disadvantages: N/A
SHE'S COME UNDONE
1992
WALLY LAMB
What I found most shocking and unusual about this incredible book is that it was written by a man through the eyes of an overweight female.
Wally Lamb portrayed the thoughts of a woman so very distinctly - I will always remember the character - Dolores Price.
This book published in 1992 was Wally Lamb's first novel and was an Oprah. Book Club read.
I suspect that this is a book and an author you may not be aware of, I certainly recommend that you introduce yourself to both.
THE STORY
Dolores Price is a young girl growing up in the 1960s. She is growing up in a time when women are expected to know their place. They have set roles in life and a good smack to correct them is accepted practice.
Dolores started out with a normal enough life. She ...
Advantages: VERY GOOD CGI Disadvantages: NOTHING NEW
10,000 BC.
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A visually stunning adventure through sabre tooth infested lands.
The movie centres around D'Leh who makes friends with a young stranger brought to his village. Her name is Evolet and their destinies are now entwined.
One day, many years later, Evolet is abducted by roaming Warlords and taken across the continent, across jungles, waste lands and frozen tundra?s.
D'Leh sets out to find her, rescue her and hopefully marry her.
To be honest there really is no more to the plot of the film. It is about love, (of course), Adventure, war, treasures, friends and revenge. The thinness of the plot is more than made up for the stunning graphics which are truly superb.
The scenes involving the Sabre tooth tiger, the war scenes and the epic ending are visually awesome.
But then when you realise the film is ...
10,000 BC.
The story is basically a love story with a sabre tooth tiger thrown in and set against the backdrop of a war.
One day a blue eyed girl called Evolet is found and brought to a far outlying village in the icy wastes. Our hero, D'Leh of course falls for her just as the village is attacked by marauders.
D'Leh sets off to track her down and save her whilst along the way he is befriended by a sabre tooth tiger, Fights evil spirits and becomes the leader of a vast army.
That's about it for the actual ploy.
The acting is just OK, but the CGI is in a league of its own. It really is something to see. The music and bass sounds are again top notch. Its a pity the plot of the film was not a bit more fulfilling.
There is a commentary that runs disjointedly throughout the film and is a bit annoying to be honest, it is ...
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Product details
Title
10,000 Years Ago
Performer
Vipers Skiffle Group & Wally Whyton
Genre
Folk
Sub Genre
British Folk
Release Date
12/1996
Original Release Year
1996
Label / Distributor
Bear Family / Rollercoaster; F-Minor
Guest Artist(s)
Vipers Skiffle Group & Wally Whyton
Pieces in Set
3
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Mixed
Format
Performer
EAN
4000127159540
Catalogue Number
BCD 15954
Additional notes
Album Notes
Commercially, the Vipers never did truly compete with the giants of skiffle. They might have been EMI's biggest-selling band in that area, but compared to Lonnie Donegan and Chas McDevitt, they were small potatoes indeed. Musically, however, the sound of this band would come to epitomize British pop in the years leading up to (and even including) the first days of the Beatles, a hard melodic punch backed up by a musical edge and harmonic elasticity that completely belie the band's chosen niche in the skiffle movement. With a little more electricity, they would have pipped Cliff Richard to the rock & roll starter's flag, and with a little less reliance upon American role models, they could have single-handedly invented Brit-pop. All of that (and more) screams out of almost every cut in this box set, a typically grandiose Bear Family gesture that not only wraps up every cut the Vipers ever released, but also a swath of unreleased material (including a souvenir of the short-lived lineup built around Hank Marvin and Jet Harris). Listeners also get the pseudonymous LP recorded for American consumption by the so-called Original Soho Skiffle Group, a clutch of Wally Whyton solo singles, and four final tracks recorded by the band following a brief reunion in 1960. Spread over three CDs, these 64 songs constitute the Vipers' legacy, but the sheer ferocity of the band in full flight is worth any number of cuts by the group's contemporaries; if you want to apply modern terminology to the subject, this is skiffle on the edge, a new wave of musical interpretation that is so far ahead of its time that you cannot help but be reminded of another band that signed for Parlophone, recorded at Abbey Road, and enjoyed George Martin as its producer. And no, that doesn't mean Gerry & the Pacemakers. In keeping with Bear Family tradition, 10,000 YEARS AGO arrives in an LP-sized box with a booklet to match and, therein, a host of rare photographs and cuttings, plus a lengthy interview with head Viper Whyton. It all adds up to one of the sharpest and most essential demonstrations of early British rock you're ever going to hear.
Titles on disc 1
1.
Ain't You Glad
2.
Pick A Bale Of Cotton
3.
It Takes A Worried Man To Sing A Worried Song
4.
Don't You Rock Me Daddyo
5.
10000 Years Ago
6.
Hey Liley Liley O
7.
Jim Dandy
8.
Cumberland Gap
9.
Maggie May
10.
Sam Hall
11.
Kevin Barry
12.
Charlie Is My Darling
13.
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
14.
I Know Where I'm Going
15.
Derby Ram
16.
Liverpool Blues
17.
Ash Grove
18.
She Was Poor But She Was Honest
19.
Wild Colonial Boy
20.
Spinning Wheel
21.
Three Lovely Lasses
22.
Greensleeves
23.
Clementine
24.
Darlin'
25.
Streamline Train
26.
Railroad Steamboat
27.
This Land Is Your Land
28.
Poor Lazarus
29.
Glory Land
30.
Precious Memories
31.
Pay Me My Money Down
32.
I Know The Lord Laid His Hands On Me
33.
Easy Rider
34.
Wanderin'
35.
Old Joe Clark
36.
Old Joe Clark
37.
Homing Bird
38.
If I Had A Hammer
39.
I Saw The Light
40.
John B Sails
41.
Last Train To San Fernando/Putting On The...
42.
All Shook Up/Wandering Eyes
43.
Skiffle Party Medley (Comin' round the mountain/On top of old smokey/Rock Island line)
44.
Skiffle Party Medley (Wabash cannonball/Gimme crack corn/Skip to my Lou)
45.
Baby Why
46.
No Other Baby
47.
Make Ready For Love
48.
Nothing Will Ever Change (My Love For You)
49.
On The Banks Of The Ohio
50.
Trouble In Mind
51.
Worried Man Blues
52.
Experimental
53.
Summertime Blues
54.
Cool Gool
55.
Liverpool Blues
56.
Horror Show
57.
Don't Tell Me All Your Troubles
58.
It's All Over Now
59.
All Over This World
60.
Got Me A Girl
61.
It's A Rat Race
62.
Marriage Of Convenience
63.
95% Of Me Loves You
64.
You're Going To Be Caught
Ciao
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