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Zulu. Believe it or not I had never actually seen this before. Michael Caine was brilliant but some of the scenes were a bit dated. They should do a remake and put right the historical inaccuracies. I have Zulu Dawn to watch also.

Reading a lot of Bryson lately! Just finished Made In America and Mother Tongue, which are both about the English Language. Very interesting.

I watched a horror film called Shrooms with two of my older kids, 19 and 18. My daughter guessed the twist/whole plot within the first 15 minutes (as she always does) and then we at least had fun picking up all the clues that were presented on the way along. Not brilliant. And the colour of the fake blood was totally wrong it was very orange. Will be traded in at first opportunity.

Good name MrCat, welcome to the forum

Although not about Nazis, The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer would be my recommendation. He was a young French/German soldier in the GrossDeutchland Division on the Russian Front.

Welcome !!

Michelle, what's MG? I know what YA is but not heard the other before

Having another bitty reading cycle right now. Can't seem to finish a book or even watch a movie all the way through. Some things going on which I will talk about in my New Life thread when I get around to it Along with a clutch of other books I have started, I am reading two books sort of side by side that are written by women and deal with the female experience, although are not exactly feminist. The first is Marge Piercy Woman On The Edge Of Time . I started it ages ago and the plot premise is exciting but I am really struggling with it. The second is The Crowded Street by Winifrid Holtby, which I will have finished by the weekend. It is fiction grounded in the writers own experiences but, strangely I am finding this more surreal than the SF novel!

Haven't heard of her, but I am impressed by the sound of someone who can make a story in one sentence! You can count me in as someone you have encouraged to read at least one book..

Yes they won't trick me into watching another one....

He was a great character. I remember our Henry Cooper broke his jaw and he still carried on fighting. They wouldn't allow that nowadays.

You are definitely in the right place here

it was good to see the characters again but by the end of the book I was unsatisfied. The cards were always stacked against Wickham because of his birth it seemed- that was one gripe- and also Elizabeth didn't actually DO anything. It's as if her life and spirit as a free agent and person was over as soon as she got married. She just spent time holding candlesticks and waiting for Darcy to come back from various important things.

Not read the book. Have only watched half the film, it is very gruelling. You can sense the cold and the vastness of the wilderness. You wonder why normal men would put themselves into this harsh environment. Tom Hardy exudes anger and you know something bad is going to happen. The bear attack scene is amazing. The Indians are seen as both alien and also sympathetically as trying to just live alongside these foreign invaders.

Welcome Sazza! I have read only a couple of those....how did you enjoy Death Comes To Pemberley?

While You Were Sleeping. Vintage Bullock. She was so young!! And half of The Revenant. Will watch the other half as soon as I get time.

I saw the original Django of 1967 with Franco Nero. Very much in the style of Leone's Dollar westerns, down to the sound effects of the guns. It's fun but I found it very dated and a bit silly. I am in two minds whether to keep it or trade it in

Beautiful Creatures. The kids made me watch this one. Overlong and a bit boring.

Yes no worries though, I think I might just have... one or two books I need to read in the meantime

I have looked over this thread and Frankie's review on the last page. I am keen to read it now. Back in 2012 at the beginning of this thread I pledged that I would wait until I saw this book in a charity shop before I read it. Well, last week it happened! I saw the hardback version for a pound. Unfortunately I was waiting for my bus to work and didn't have a spare pound on me! The next day it was gone. Oh well.....

Sorry what's a rec?

Well, although I don't like what they did there is always an upside to every situation. It is forcing me to look into every nook and crannie on my laptop and have a good clean out of things that I no longer needed. I have backed up my half finished novel and associated notes and all my family pictures safely onto lots of memory sticks so I know they are safe. The laptop is nearly empty. So over the next couple of weeks I am going to experiment freely with Windows10. I can't deny that men do like to have a tinker about with something new. I wont be using Edge or Onedrive. I will look at the other features in turn to see whether I like them better than the old equivalents.

Sound interesting!

Must check this one out thanks!

Hi Frankie well, apart from the internet problem which is now fixed, the system is working well enough, it's just that I don't like how intrusive it is and how it keeps trying to push me to do stuff I am not happy doing. One of the big bugbears for me is that it has taken everything in my hard drive: documents, all my family photos that were in folders, and put them all in a cloud and also has started arranging them on it's own into albums. I like to do my own albums thank you. I am seriously thinking about uninstalling or at least disabling the Onedrive so nothing is stored in the cloud where the US government can look at it so easily. One thing I miss the loss of is all the old games like chess and mahjong, that were on the hard drive. These have all been got rid of and there are only "App" games that I must play online instead. I will uninstall all these.