Kull exile of atlantis5/11/2023 ![]() Much more than simply the prototype for Conan, Kull is a fascinating character in his own right: an exile from fabled Atlantis who wins the crown of Valusia, only to find it as much a burden as a prize. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the brooding intellect of a philosopher, that Howard began to develop the distinctive themes, and the richly evocative blend of history and mythology, that would distinguish his later tales of the Hyborian Age. ![]() From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. ![]() Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be called sword and sorcery. ![]() In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. ![]()
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Fight club book5/11/2023 ![]() The underlying themes of rebellion sparked something inside of a generation that wasn't willing to kowtow to the pernicious powers that be. David Fincher's masterpiece touches on themes like transitioning from a consumer culture ("Planet Starbucks," "Microsoft Galaxy") to an anti-consumerism culture where your stuff doesn't own you anymore. In 2014, Fight Club speaks to us more so than in 1999, and that famous catchphrase continues to echo through the annals of pop culture and our political sphere.įight Club's very much a movie about men who "are not a beautiful or unique snowflake" ( millennials must cringe watching the movie) and who enjoy destroying something beautiful just because they feel like it. Breaking the rule, we're still talking about Fight Club, 15 years after its release this month - both the movie and the radical ideology grafted to the fictional club. ![]() ![]() "The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club," barks Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) to his minions - men raised by women. ![]() Cosmos sagan5/11/2023 ![]() Geordi LaForge Teaches you about the Universe “ illustrated.” - The New York Times Book Review “Sagan dazzles the mind with the miracle of our survival, framed by the stately galaxies of space.” - Cosmopolitan ![]() “Brilliant in its scope and provocative in its suggestions.shimmers with a sense of wonder.” - The Miami Herald “Sagan is an astronomer with one eye on the stars, another on history, and a third - his mind’s - on the human condition.” - Newsday With a lyrical literary style, and a range that touches almost all aspects of human knowledge, Cosmos often seems too good to be true.” - The Plain Dealer Includes introductory music: "Heaven and Hell" by Vangelis from Cosmos: A Personal Voyage used with permission from Druyan-Sagan Associates, Inc. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution that have transformed matter into consciousness, exploring such topics as the origin of life, the human brain, Egyptian hieroglyphics, spacecraft missions, the death of the Sun, the evolution of galaxies, and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern science. ![]() In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXĬosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. ![]() ![]() And now it's up to Annah-can she continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only escape from the Return's destruction? Very exciting! I tend to think of The Dark and Hollow Places as more of a sequel to The Dead-Tossed Waves than a companion. ![]() Then she meets Catcher and everything feels alive again.Įxcept, Catcher has his own secrets-dark, terrifying truths that link him to a past Annah's longed to forget, and to a future too deadly to consider. Without him, her life doesn't feel much different from that of the dead that roam the wasted city around her. ![]() ![]() But most of all, Annah would like to forget the morning Elias left her for the Recruiters.Īnnah's world stopped that day and she's been waiting for him to come home ever since. There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face when she and Elias left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the horde as they found their way to the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. ![]() Hurray! I just saw that the listing for The Dark and Hollow Places is up on Amazon - squee! It lists the release date as Maalso big yay! No cover yet, though - it's not final and as soon as it is and I get permission to post it I'll be shouting from the rooftops :) However, the flap copy describing the book on Amazon (and elsewhere) is wrong so here's the official description of the book: ![]() Kami garcia and margaret stohl books5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Then Lena starts at the school Ethan attends and he is quickly drawn to her and realises that she is the girl from his dreams. Amma is also a Seer.Īt the start of the book we find out that Ethan keeps on having a recurring dream in which there is a girl he has never met. Leaving the house keeper Amma to look after the Ethan. His dad has been hiding away in his office since his wife, Ethan’s mum, died. Lena Duschannes is a Caster (Similar to a witch), who is living with her Uncle Macon Ravenwood in Gatlin, South Carolina.Įthan Wate is just an normal teenager living in Gatlin with his author dad. ![]() ![]() In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.Įthan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl – Book Reviewįormat – ebook, paperback, hardcover, audio ![]() Death comes for the archbishop5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Cather includes many fictionalized accounts of actual historical figures, including Kit Carson, Manuel Antonio Chaves and Pope Gregory XVI. ![]() The narration is in third-person omniscient style. The narrative has frequent digressions, either in terms of stories related to the pair (including the story of the Our Lady of Guadalupe and the murder of an oppressive Spanish priest at Acoma Pueblo) or through their recollections. The narrative is based on two historical figures of the late 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamy and Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, and rather than any one singular plot, is the stylized re-telling of their lives serving as Roman Catholic clergy in New Mexico. copyright expired on January 1, 2023, when all works published in 1927 entered the public domain. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. ![]() Daredevil elektra frank miller5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() There aren't any significant interviews with Miller since the book's release where he says anything substantial about this project.Īnd yet, "Elektra Lives Again" is important in the way that transitional comics often are - its release positions it between "Dark Knight Returns" and "Sin City" in terms of comics written-and-drawn-by-Frank-Miller. But Frank Miller, her creator, had one final chance to say goodbye to the character he once knew.ġ990's "Elektra Lives Again" - a hardcover graphic novel written and drawn by Frank Miller and painted by Lynn Varley - was Miller's farewell to the character and it's an unusual book for a whole bunch of reasons: (a) it was published by Marvel's Epic imprint even though it's part of Miller's superhero saga begun in the monthly "Daredevil" comic book series, (b) the dusty, textured painted colors by Lynn Varley look like nothing else she's done before or since, (c) Miller brings Elektra back only to kill her off yet again in a hyper-symbolic-but-amplified replay of her first death scene, (d) unlike "Dark Knight Returns," Miller inks this story himself, and (e) out of all his major works, "Elektra Lives Again" is the book Miller talks about the least. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother-announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.īut what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “ 28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”įrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. ![]() The Oresteia by Aeschylus5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() They revolve around the curse on the House of Atreus, recounting a horrific story of revenge and familial bloodshed, from the murder of Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra ( Agamemnon) through the murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes ( Libation Bearers) to the trial and acquittal of Orestes by means of a new institution: the jury-court at the Areopagus ( Eumenides). ![]() Just like many (if not most) of Aeschylus’ trilogies, it is a connected one: the three plays which comprise it – Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides – are continuous in plot and unified in subject matter. Even though it was customary to present dramatic trilogies at the Dionysia festivals of Ancient Greece, Aeschylus’ Oresteia is the only complete Ancient Greek trilogy which has survived to this day. ![]() The Phoenix Code by Catherine Asaro5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() With new releases from different publishers, Asaro proves a double threat this month.In The Phoenix Code, artificial intelligence expert Megan OFlannery gets a chance to work in the race to develop a self-aware android. Her behavior is becoming more human-or so it seems. Catherine Asaro Asaro, Catherine FromReviewed with Catherine Asaros The Quantum Rose. Charon might be dead, but Alpha continues to carry out her late master's orders, and she refuses to elaborate on what those orders entail. ![]() Alpha escapes from an escape-proof compound, kidnaps Thomas, and takes him to one of Charon's hidden installations. He stalls for time, a move that could prove disastrous. Thomas's superiors want her dismantled and studied, but to Thomas it feels like murder. ![]() Outwardly indistinguishable from a human woman, Alpha has superhuman strength and speed, and perhaps even more deadly capabilities still unknown. The only android survivor of Charon's cybernetic empire. However, one major problem remains: Alpha, He is dead now, and General Thomas Wharington believes his team of experts has deleted all the electronic copies the megalomaniacal inventor created of himself. Charon was the most ruthless-and brilliant-criminal of the twenty-first century, a practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. ![]() |