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Book Review: "The Mahé Circle" by Georges Simenon
The Mahé Circle is one of the lesser great books by Georges Simenon but still contains slight brilliances that we would commonly associate with him and his works. Long strings of brilliance and vibrance followed by depressing and haunting images, characters with strange pasts and major pieces of dialogue. When it comes to characterisation, Simenon is one of the greats with having the ability to start a story in the middle of a narrative whilst also giving us a whole backstory to a character that is revealed through snippets, bits and pieces and the way in which we are taught about other characters, both relative and irrelevant. It is like learning about secrets we are not supposed to know. However, this book lacks the philosophical depth that I have seen in other Simenon books such as “The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By” and “The Blue Room”. But let us have a look at some of the book’s quotations that I thought were some of the strongest in the whole narrative:
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "1917"
1917 came out in 2019. A full 102 years after the events of the movie. The events that had happened in the movie were loosely based on stories that the director Sam Mendes had heard from his war veteran grandfather. I can't imagine anyone going through the situations that were described in this movie because the movie is disturbingly visceral and authentic.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Geeks
Review of Christopher Nolan's Tenet Film
Tenet by Christopher Nolan, on a structural and conceptual level, is a big-budget Memento. Both stories are told both backward and forwards. In Nolan’s second feature film, he differentiates the timeline, moving forward in time as black-and-white scenes, and the reverse chronology as color. The scenes culminate in the climax and transition from black and white to color when the revelation near the end of the film’s runtime is the chronological start of the movie.
By Michael Bergonzi6 years ago in Geeks
‘Half Brothers’ Review—Somewhat Watchable
Luke Greenfield directs Half Brothers, a buddy road trip comedy-drama about Renato (Luis Gerardo Méndez), a Mexican man who is forced to go on a cross-country scavenger hunt at the request of his dying father with an American brother, Asher (Connor Del Rio), that he never knew existed.
By Jonathan Sim6 years ago in Geeks
Welcome To Book Reviews By Idealhoolagain
Hey guys! Welcome to my page on Vocal! I used to be putting all my book reviews on my WordPress site (witch will stay up) but now I want to start posting content other then just book reviews. So, here I am now! On this page, I will be reviewing not only books and authors, but now bookish companies and publishing houses!
By laura a acuna6 years ago in Geeks
