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LOOK – Geo City Grip Bicycle Pedals

By 5t4n5

If you’re looking for some nice, really nice, bicycle pedals, then maybe have a look at these ones from Look.   They’re really good.

The platform is 100mm wide by 105mm long, which is a really big flat area.   I’ve never seen any pedals this big before.

Great for bare foot riding, or riding with nice shoes on that you don’t want the soles to get torn up.   Nice and grippy without the spikey bits of normal pedals due to the Vibram rubber grippy surface.   You can buy replacement surface pads in lots of different colours if you wear them out.

All round good pedals if you’re wanting something super comfortable the doesn’t destroy your shoes or feet and gives loads of support from the extra large surface area.

Not sponsored or anything like that, i just bought them because i like riding barefoot and i couldn’t be happier.   Worth every penny.

Check their website if you want more information.

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Tales from High Hallack Volume Three — Andre Norton

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Tales from High Hallack Volume Three, written by Andre Norton.

Auôur the Deepminded
No Folded Hands
Bard’s Crown
Frog Magic
Herne’s Lady
The Outling
Stonish Men
Churchyard Yew
Root and Branch Shall Change
White Violets
Needle and Dream
Procession to Var
Set in Stone
Ravenmere
Three-Inch Trouble
The End is the Beginning
The Familiar
Red Cross, White Cross
Sow’s Ear—Silk Purse
The Cobwebbed Princess
Faire Likeness

Andre’s Page

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Tales from High Hallack Volume Two — Andre Norton

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Tales from High Hallack Volume Two, written by Andre Norton.

Freedom
Cats
Song of the Barbarian Swordsman
The Last Cohort
Swamp Dweller
Get Out of My Dream!
Of the Shaping of Ulm’s Heir
Rider on a Mountain
The Silent One
The Nabob’s Gift
Nine Threads of Gold
A Very Dickensy Christmas
Noble Warrior
Hob’s Pot
Noble Warrior Meets with a Ghost
Noble Warrior, Teller of Fortunes
Noble Warrior and the “Gentleman”

Andre’s Page

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Tales from High Hallack Volume One — Andre Norton

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Tales from High Hallack Volume One, written by Andre Norton.

The Last Spell
Sword of Unbelief
Earthborn: A Witch World Story
That Which Overfloweth
By a Hair
The Gifts of Asti
Falcon Blood
The Dowry of the Rag Picker’s Daughter
All Cats Are Gray
The Way Wind
Black Irish
The Boy and the Ogre
Through the Needle’s Eye
The Toymaker’s Snuffbox
Ully the Piper
Dream Smith
One Spell Wizard
London Bridge

Andre’s Page

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Compulsory — Martha Wells

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Wired page of this book.Click here to go to the Wired page of, Compulsory, written by Martha Wells.

The prequel to the Murderbot Diaries.

“As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure.”

Yes, it’s only a short story, but it’s a great introduction to the series and our main protagonist, the Murderbot.   It’s certainly got me instantly wanting to dive into the rest of the series, so it’s certainly done it’s job as a prequel.

So now there’s nothing left to do but get reading the actual first book in the series, All Systems Red.

Published in Wired, where you can read it for free.

Martha’s Page

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Homecoming — Season 1

By 5t4n5

Production by Esmail Corp and directed by Sam Esmail.   Sam is also executive producer of this and Briarpatch.   And if you’re still not with it, he’s also the guy who created Mr. Robot.   Oh, that Sam Esmail.   Yes, that Sam Esmail.

It’s all a bit strange to start: Heidi Bergman, now a waitress, is questioned by Thomas Carrasco, a Department of Defence auditor, as to her role in the Homecoming Transitional Support Center, about which she claims to have no knowledge.   We then switch back and forth in timelines with Heidi, years earlier, running Homecoming while in the present claiming to have no knowledge of doing so.

There’s some great acting all round in this, but especially from Shea Whigham who plays Thomas Carrasco, the downtrodden cog in the DoD machine, to absolute perfection.

It’s good.   So good i even watched season 2: review coming soon.

 

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The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, The Great Gatsby, Written by F Scott Fitzgerald.

While i think that this is a really good book, and a thoroughly enjoyable read, i certainly don’t think that it deserves to be ranked as one of the ‘best novels of the 20th century’ and all the other plaudits it gets.

Basically, this story boils down to: poor young man falls in love with a rich, young and beautiful woman but doesn’t have the wealth to support her in the life to which she is obviously accustomed.

So Gatsby disappears from her life and sets out to become the wealthy man that he thinks will attract her.   In the meanwhile, once Gatsby’s disappeared from her life, she meets and marries someone more of her class, breeding and money.   But all the while Gatsby’s been stalking her until he has the courage to finally reveal himself and all the wealth he has somehow amassed.

So yeah, nothing much new there.   You can find plenty of books of that ilk, plenty better books published in the 20th century, and plenty better American novels.

But what you can’t find very often is the delightful prose in which this is written and the way the story is presented.   And the story is rather more nuanced than my simple precis above.

So yeah, definitely a good book and well worth a read, but it’s certainly not the greatest and i’m certainly not planning on ever reading it again.

Scott’s Page

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