JackPurcell
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Billboard Pop MemoriesBillboard Pop Memories, Book1950-54
Book - 1994Book, 1994
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Added Sep 12, 2018
Killing SeasonKilling Season, DVD
DVD - 2013DVD, 2013
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Nov 14, 2016
The Longest RideThe Longest Ride, DVD
DVD - 2015DVD, 2015
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Nov 14, 2016
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Maybe it's a chick flick. Seemed to me to just be an adolescent romance with a lot of silly females wowing young Eastwood.
DiabloDiablo, DVD
DVD - 2016DVD, 2016
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Nov 14, 2016
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Watching young Eastwood is a strange experience. If his dad had been bereft of talent and put into the movies anyway into really lousy parts this would have been Clint.
Added Nov 14, 2016
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Maybe no other writer today enjoys his own creations while he's creating them more than Jasper Fforde..... third in the series and worth the chuckles.
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Added Nov 14, 2016
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Good plotting, well-built characters... all in all a fun read.
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Nov 03, 2016
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Another fun book by Jasper Fforde in his life after Tuesday Next
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Nov 03, 2016
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Not a bad read as a mystery novel. The romanticized white man views of what his Native American main characters live and how they view the world is somewhat adolescent. But a lot of readers will savor that in all likelihood, the way so many female readers savor romance novels.Not a bad read as a mystery novel. The romanticized white man views of what his Native American main characters live and how they view the world is somewhat adolescent. But a lot of readers will savor that in all likelihood, the way so many…
Mercury PlainsMercury Plains, DVD
DVD - 2016DVD, 2016
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Nov 02, 2016
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Not a bad movie considering he's Eastwood's son.
Added Nov 02, 2016
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This book is damaged on the binder and there's evidence of previous repairs. If they attempt to charge you for damage you didn't do point to this comment and the date and refuse. There's no telling how many times patrons have already paid for this damage.This book is damaged on the binder and there's evidence of previous repairs. If they attempt to charge you for damage you didn't do point to this comment and the date and refuse. There's no telling how many times patrons have already paid for…
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 31, 2016
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James Lee Burke calls this his best work. I tend to agree.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry AugustThe First Fifteen Lives of Harry August, Book
by North, ClaireBook - 2014Book, 2014
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 28, 2016
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An imaginative, well written novel about a different sort of 'time travel'.
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 26, 2016
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An imaginative 'sort of' after-the-cataclysm novel.... plotting was okay until he tried to wrap it all up at the end. No joy there.
Overall an entertaining read without straining the imagination of the reader.
Nothing Short of DyingNothing Short of Dying, BookA Clyde Barr Novel
by Storey, ErikBook - 2016Book, 2016
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 25, 2016
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Another Lee Child Jack Reacher lookalike.....toughest most noble, sincere, well meaning not a bad bone in his body good bad guy gets into a hundred fist, knife and gunfights with real bad guys for the best of reasons and naturally wins them all.
This is becoming a genre.... what will it be called? Reacheristic? Childishry?Another Lee Child Jack Reacher lookalike.....toughest most noble, sincere, well meaning not a bad bone in his body good bad guy gets into a hundred fist, knife and gunfights with real bad guys for the best of reasons and naturally wins them…
The Accidental Time MachineThe Accidental Time Machine, Book
by Haldeman, Joe W.Book - 2007Book, 2007
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 23, 2016
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A fairly imaginative, innovative time travel story without taking the journey onto roads where other writers have already left deep ruts.
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 20, 2016
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Good piece of reading..... well worth the experience.
The Lost History of 1914The Lost History of 1914, BookReconsidering World War I
by Beatty, JackBook - 2012Book, 2012
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
Love in the Time of CholeraLove in the Time of Cholera, BookA Novel
by García Márquez, GabrielBook - 2003Book, 2003
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
One Hundred Years of SolitudeOne Hundred Years of Solitude, Book
by García Márquez, GabrielBook - 2006Book, 2006
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
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This book deserves to be on the reading lists of all the folks who draw satisfaction from being exposed to excellent literature disguised as great entertainment.
The 100 Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedThe 100 Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, DVD
DVD - 2015DVD, 2015
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
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Surprisingly true to the book, which was also excellent.
The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and DisappearedThe 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Book
by Jonasson, JonasBook - 2012Book, 2012
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
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Funny, interesting and imaginative.
Welcome to LeithWelcome to Leith, DVD
DVD - 2015DVD, 2015
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
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Offers some ideas about how city neighborhoods might be able to force out gangs causing them trouble, though they might not be white supremists.
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 19, 2016
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Fun read.
Young FrankensteinYoung Frankenstein, DVD
DVD - 1998DVD, 1998
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 18, 2016
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As fresh as it was the day it was released.
JackPurcell's rating:
Added Oct 18, 2016
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At first it seemed a fairly competent piece of formula writing in the Jack Reacher/Lee Child genre..... the vets are all steely eyed killers, the cops have xray eyes, the blue-eyed beauty tragic wifee-widows have blue-steel eyes that shine.
Yeah, but it reads okay until the last 75 pages or so when he violates some rules of writing the publishers wouldn't have allowed back when they had editors... But no doubt you'll finish reading the book anyway, same as I did. Without applauding.
Probably we veterans need to put a stop to all this glamorizing and stereotyping vets as all screwed up in the head, potentially deadly folks who've been done wrong.
That image, the one this book furthers, gives all of us with ego challenges a standard to set for what we also must pretend to be for the civilians around us.
But the cliche is making a lot of money for writers who exploit us and the meaningless wars of the last several decades.At first it seemed a fairly competent piece of formula writing in the Jack Reacher/Lee Child genre..... the vets are all steely eyed killers, the cops have xray eyes, the blue-eyed beauty tragic wifee-widows have blue-steel eyes that shine.
Yeah,…
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