5/24/2023 0 Comments Shōgun by james clavell![]() ![]() It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. James Clavell (19211994) was a novelist, screenwriter, director, and World War II veteran and prisoner of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() It tells a historical fiction account of the arrival of John Blackthorne. My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year. In this review we examine 'Shogun', a miniseries from 1980 based off of James Clavells popular novel of the same name. One of the great page turners of all time * Good Book Guide * FX has unveiled the full cast for its updated take on James Clavell’s Shgun. Mr Clavell tells his story brilliantly * The Times * creates a world so enveloping you forget who and where you are * New York Times * I can't remember when a novel has seized my mind like this one. Unquestionably the best historical novel of its kind since Anthony Adverse * Los Angeles Times * SHOGUN is a huge exotic, blood-stained canvas of sixteenth century but still medieval Japan, rival warlords and proselytising Jesuits, geishas, seppuku, samurai with the death-with and a shipwrecked Elizabethan * Guardian * Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily * Daily Mirror * It has power, it has violence, subtlety and lots, lots more. My bet for the most satisfyingly popular novel of the year. ![]()
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5/24/2023 0 Comments Star wars charles soule![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Soule is at the helm of Marvel’s flagship Star Wars series, which is celebrating a milestone along with its writer: Star Wars #25, now available, is Soule’s 100 th Star Wars comic. From there, Soule’s Star Wars star continued to rise, as he racked up credits including Poe Dameron, The Rise of Kylo Ren, War of the Bounty Hunters, and more, often with major contributions to lore when it came time to shape what would become the Star Wars: The High Republic initiative, Soule was one of five writers recruited as an architect of its first stories. ![]() The scribe took his first steps with 2016’s Lando, a five-issue miniseries that garnered significant acclaim. Since Marvel returned to publishing Star Wars comics in 2015, few writers have made as great an impact on the galaxy far, far away as Charles Soule. The prolific writer on some of his biggest moments in the galaxy far, far away and reaching a milestone with Star Wars #25. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Tina fey autobio![]() ![]() ![]() Growing up, she was awkward and never really wanted to be like everyone else. At only 5 years of age, she was assaulted by a man in an alley, leaving a huge scar on her face that she still has today. Tina Fey was born in Pennsylvania on May 18th, 1970. Tina Fey is a celebrity known for being an actress and writer for Saturday Night Live, and then later projects such as Mean Girls and 30 Rock. Overall, the memoir allows th e audience to look into the life of a star, and all of the realities that come with it. ![]() By integrating her humor into her writing, Fey creates a masterpiece that sheds light on social issues through her raw experiences. Her writing reveals an eagerness to address and change these themes, thus empowering her audience to do the same (McNamara 2011). Additionally, Fey touches on risky topics such as bullying, sexism, and negative body image that she experienced while working for Saturday Night Live and in the film industry overall. Highlighting her introduction to acting, interactions with fellow child actors, and experiences at her first job, Fey offers insight to her initial draw to the stage. In this quirky narrative, Fey recounts her path to stardom, including brief snippets from her childhood and defining moments in her career that contribute to who she is today. Bossypants is a memoir about the growth and achievements of actress, comedian, and writer Tina Fey. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments The Magus by John Fowles![]() ![]() Generally considered to be his masterpiece, Fowles’ novel is ‘post-modern’ – which I assume means that the works of William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce et al, are taken as read, ie a foundation upon which Fowles builds his epic examination of the validity of the novel in a post holocaust age. ![]() There are histrionics – which by some readers might be considered irritating, but JOHN FOWLES in his novel THE MAGUS has an ability to produce – in this reader anyway – feelings of intense sadness and loss. ![]() ‘By the time I left Oxford I was a dozen girls away from virginity,’ and its 1951 remember! Then there’s Alison who he meets - supposedly - by chance, but soon disposes of to take up a job teaching English in an all-boys school on the Greek island of Phraxos. ‘…There was also a girl I was tired of.’ Twenty-five-year old brigadier’s son, Oxford graduate and recently-orphaned Nicholas Urfe has a nasty addiction to breaking girls' hearts, or so he fancies, in his caddish sort of way. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Lucky jim novel![]() ![]() More than just a merciless satire of cloistered college life and stuffy post-war manners, Lucky Jim is an attack on the forces of boredom, whatever form they may take, and a work of art that at once distills and extends an entire tradition of English comic writing, from Fielding and Dickens through Wodehouse and Waugh. ![]() This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics, with each of whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in order to hold on to his cushy academic perch and win the girl of his fancy. Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. Synopsis: A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Escape from furnace book![]() For a moment after waking up, Alex doesn't remember who he was. He sees a mirror of himself trying to communicate remembering his own name (something a blacksuit Monty told Alex before dying) before being completely pulled in and buried alive. His first dream is about being dragged into the mud by the hands of corpses. The nectar overloads Alex's senses and he quickly passes out into a nectar induced fever dream. Alex nearly dies, but is quickly hooked up with an IV of nectar, under the Warden's demand of making sure they stay alive. How can I escape when the darkness is inside me? Plot Summary Revived Īfter a near fatal encounter falling from the incinerator's chimney and into the waiting flames, Alex, Zee, and Simon are retrieved by the Warden and sent off to the infirmary. I’m changing – something evil is being pumped into my veins. This time our punishment will be much worse than before, because in the bloodstained laboratories beneath Furnace lies the horrific truth behind the warden’s plans.ĭown here, monsters are made. ![]() We had one last shot at freedom and we failed. The gripping third instalment in Alexander Gordon Smith’s epic series about Furnace, a terrifying underground prison for teenagers – now with the bestselling US cover. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despisers of life are they, decaying ones and poisoned ones themselves, of whom the earth is weary: so away with them! Let your will say: The Overman shall be the meaning of the earth! I beg of you my brothers, remain true to the earth, and believe not those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes! Poisoners are they, whether they know it or not. But do I ask you to become phantoms or plants?īehold, I teach you the Overman! The Overman is the meaning of the earth. ![]() Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.Įven the wisest among you is only a confusion and hybrid of plant and phantom. You have evolved from worm to man, but much within you is still worm. And just so shall a man be to the Overman: a laughing-stock, a thing of shame. Do you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and revert back to the beast rather than overcome mankind? What is the ape to a man? A laughing-stock, a thing of shame. What have youĪll beings so far have created something beyond themselves. People: I teach you the Overman! Mankind is something to be overcome. Introduce the tightrope walker, gathered around to listen. The crowd, believing that Zarathustra was the ringmaster come to ![]() Many people had gathered there in the marketplace to see a tightrope walker who had promised a When Zarathustra arrived at the edge of the forest, he came upon a town. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra (excerpts)īack to philosophy page Friedrich Nietzsche: ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Thoughtless by sc stephens series![]() ![]() something is uniquely grating about Kiera. ![]() ![]() I’ve read some deeply flawed characters before and enjoyed the challenge of trying to see from their point of view but. It’s almost hilarious how impossibly unlikable she is. It never ended.īut crying by itself is fine (or can be fine.) This woman is toxic to all around her. I like my evil characters to be either upfront yet complex or too deranged to process their actions appropriately (Joe from You by Caroline Kepnes comes to mind) not crying all the time while still doing the most slimy and deceitful things. but in a whiny and trying-to-seem-ignorant sort of way. She has zero redeeming qualities and is the single worst main character I’ve ever come across in a book. This is an unconventional, angsty romance about cheating and how it effects the three people involved. Thoughtless has all three! So I went in, ready to be openminded and up for the challenge of getting to know these characters and trying to understand their situation and points of view. Keen focus on fewer characters, with deeper development and interactions for the few. Antiheroes, or otherwise complicated and unconventional protagonists.ģ. ![]() There are three guilty pleasures I have when it comes to fiction (romantic or otherwise) that drew me to this one-Ģ. I try to approach this sort of thing with a little humor or lightheartedness, but if this warning is preceding a book called “Thoughtless” then I’m sorry, it was impossible. This review will probably be filled with harsh criticisms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roger has found his calling–ministry which I found awfully ironic but rather fitting. I am glad I bought The Outlandish Companion….I think I’m going to need it to keep everyone and all the sub-plots/characters straight!ĪBOSAA picks up where the others left off (obviously) Brianna has finally adjusted to life in the 1700’s (more of less….) and life with Roger. I read somewhere Gabaldon plans at least two more novels….all I can say is WOW, she’s ambitious! ![]() I feel like all of the characters have come so far and changed so much since the first book, which I suppose is the concept of this really really really long story. I swear I have been reading the Outlander Series for about six or seven weeks now and everything seems to be running together. I have to say, I am completely agog at how much happens in one single book! Lots of things have happened over the last few weeks since I finished The Fiery Cross but I have now I finally finished Book VI in the Outlander Series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon! ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Stephen king car book![]() ![]() I won’t pretend that King is improving, or is even maintaining his level of quality. But for every supernatural ghoul, there is also usually a darker meditation on a serious issue.Īlcoholism, domestic abuse, disability, mental illness, and ageing are just some of the countless topics found in most of King’s work. His villains are often terrifying yet deep and often amusing. Read More: The Best Horror Books (Not by Stephen King) He has created some of the greatest villains in the history of storytelling, from Pennywise the dancing clown to The Overlook, a literal haunted hotel. ![]() Well, not quite endless but pretty damn long.Īs of October 2021, Stephen King is 74 years old and his bibliography consists of around the same number of works as his years of being alive.Ī novel or short-story collection for every single year of his considerably long life. Being that prolific means that they aren’t all masterpieces, but that’s why this article exists.īorn in 1947 and having released published works since the early 70s, Stephen King has been known as The Master of Horror for decades now. It, Carrie, The Shining, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile… the list is endless. ![]() |