A diver is hired to investigate a suspicious boat accident, but when he leaves one day earlier than expected to investigate the area, he finds the boat is still afloat. It begs the question: is this a case of insurance fraud, or is it deeper than that? Just what, exactly, has he gotten himself into? Great so far!
I did not realize we got to Opar so early in the series!
Tarzan soothes a broken heart by… becoming a French spy? Lots of fun when ERB isn‘t being racist.
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62 out of 100, way more than all my previous ones. So many of my favorite movies are on this list, too many to choose just three. I also see they've stretched the definition of "thriller" to the breaking point. So in that spirit, here are my top 3 movies that are absolutely NOT thrillers:
? Titanic
? The Wizard of Oz
? E.T.
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I did better on this one: 39/100. Here are the highlights in no particular order.
1. Rear Window
2. Casablanca
3. 12 Angry Men
Honorable Mention to China Syndrome for Michael Douglas and his spectacular hair.
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pickI liked this one! It did some pretty unique things for the genre.
pick"Crucifixus Etiam" by Walter M. Miller Jr is the final story, and a case of leaving the best until last.
Manue Nanti is a Peruvian manual worker in a work team terraforming Mars. His high-altitude physiology needs less expensive support to breathe the thin Martian atmosphere, but this results in irreversible biological changes that make a return to earth at the expiry of his five year contract unlikely.
If there's such a thing as ⬇️
"Make no mistake. A man may hate and be strengthened and ennobled by it. Let us by all means hate oppression and injustice, hate greed and the cruelty of ignorance and fear. Hatred, so cultivated, is a precious thing - but tend it well. Multiplied too rapidly, dropped carelessly in too fertile soil, allowed to cross with ignorant prejudice, blind self-seeking, it may bloom at last into death and destruction for us all. ⬇️
pick"The Gnarly Man" by L. Sprague de Camp
I love stories about Neanderthals surviving into the present, and this is a good one about an immortal hominin whose current "undercover" identity is Coney Island sideshow curiosity "Ungo-Bungo". He unwisely breaks cover when approached by anthropologist Dr. Matilda Saddler, and faces the possibility of the re-extinction of his species.
pick"Who Shall I Say is Calling?" by August Derleth
Maryla and her brother drive by chance past a country house where they see a masquerade party in progress. Deciding to gatecrash, they are readily accepted as attending in the guise of Count and Lady Dracula, despite not being in costume! ??♂️??♀️
Derleth's dialogue is archly humourous, and the reader's suspecting more than the partygoers about the nature of the siblings is delicious ?
