Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
If a picture can paint a thousand words, then London is righty considered a canvas that keeps inspiring, an image of forever change and the backdrop to an ever evolving mixture of oils and a representation of life that is both a textured reflection and despairing copy of its once genius self and the back drop to a million hopeless dreams.
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The prospect of finding another version of yourself on a parallel Earth is not only intriguing but it is alluring, tempting to play out in your mind when the cold blast of reality hits home that quite often your mistakes have the profound effect on shaping the world around you, and that outside influences can distort how the world may be seen.
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Authentic thought in the hands of the misplaced judgement of the radical, is a dream that they perceive to be a realistic and proper, never once conceding that their words, deeds and actions are the result of stolen ideas, of plagiarised misjudged steps; some may call it revolutionary, others deem it avant-garde to speak the sentence uttered by others but with a more flourished tongue and convincing attitude.
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It is perhaps out of habit that we think of love as one created and owned by teenagers, the image of Romeo and Juliet declaring to the world, albeit with a sense of unnerving non-appropriate behaviour with consideration to their age, that their love is timeless, their love is written in the stars and cannot be contained.
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A writer’s experience will always bleed into the story or the article they are engraving into the scene they are creating; nothing happens on paper by accident, each world is chewed over, fought for, and it is with a sense of occasion, of delight, that The Good Doctor, the second of B.B.C. tie-in novels in this particular series of Doctor Who, has been impressed upon the fans by Juno Dawson.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
There is something so dreadfully wrong with the world that it is only after the fact that we collectively feel the shame that should be felt by those entrusted to keep us safe, to provide justice, to deliver on the way we all want to live, without harm. When we learn of a single human being’s treatment at the hand of the government machine, we begin to see past the lies told, the fabrications dealt out and the sense of discrimination faced.
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As introductions to a character go, the iconic French detective Maigret arguably could not have been delivered at a more timely moment, nor could Georges Simenon captured the essence of a decent man’s life when Europe was finding itself enveloped in the dark times to come, the shadow of one war had not truly been lifted, and the prospect of another, more deadly, more devastating than any other before it, loomed on the horizon.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Education is important, knowing your own mind and being driven to rebel against the system that only wants to tie you down to the mundane and dreary is imperative.
It can be argued that many of the finest creative minds that the world has produced has at some point defied the slog of the near industrial machine which is designed in part to generate more cogs, more constructed consumers and instead found ways to bring happiness into the lives of the general population. A song encouraging a heart to beat faster, a piece of art which brings sweat and fear to the brows of the so called elite of the world; anybody who can do this deserves to have a story told, the blueprint of their life brought to the attention of the autobiographical section of any bookshop.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
It is surely fair to say that there will never be another writer like Stephen King, a master of his genre in such a way that rivals Dickens, Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie or Jane Austen in their chosen avenues of exploring the desire and darkness within the human experience, a fair assumption that despite many suggesting he has lost his touch, or perhaps just simply been part of the everyday for far too long. It is more than likely that his performance as a writer, the stories crafted, still thrill millions around the world, the power of his imagination continues to hit heights that perhaps install just a twinge of envy in some, and downright rude resentment in others.
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The long association of intertwining Earth’s history and the fictional lives of the Doctor has always been a passion of many of the fans of the television series of Doctor Who. An abundance of rich and varied accounts, the grand moments, the seemingly small and possibly inconsequential, all are ripe for exploring, for adding the most important of human instincts and emotions to what the chronicles will teach us; to enthuse imagination to any possible recorded scene and to question the authority of those that wrote it.