![]() ![]() There is a certain absurdity with the special effects - eyes bulging and whatnot when the people lose oxygen. Is it a dream? A brain embolism? Reality? Any of these has evidence to support it and also to contradict it. ![]() One of the great things about Total Recall is the ambiguous nature of the story. And even as a stand-alone sci-fi film, it ranks as one of the better ones of the 1990s, if not all time. Total Recall is easily worthy of standing beside Blade Runner. With A Scanner Darkly and Paycheck (among others) creating an extended trilogy (you know, like Douglas Adams did). Dick trilogy: Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. When a man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) goes for virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real, or does he? One could consider "Total Recall" part of a Philip K. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Convinced that Julie’s heart palpitations, headaches, weakness and pallor were signs of a serious health condition, Sandy would not stop dragging Julie to doctors until someone took the young girl’s symptoms as seriously as she did. In her memoir Sickened, Julie Gregory relates how “we have got to get to the bottom of this, Sis!” was her mother’s constant refrain. Poor Rose Gold is a fictional character, but Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is a real disorder with real victims. ![]() Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel is a deliciously diabolical tale of mothers, daughters and revenge. Of course that doesn’t mean that Rose Gold doesn’t have a few surprises in store for her mother or that her mother doesn’t have a few of her own surprises. After five years in prison for aggravated child abuse, “Poisonous Patty” is being released and who but her darling daughter Rose Gold is there to meet her. Despite a childhood spent being sickened and starved by her mother, years of having her head shaved and her teeth rot from malnutrition, endless doctors’ visits and unnecessary procedures, Rose Gold is ready to start over. Not every girl would forgive her mother for poisoning her, but Rose Gold is no ordinary girl. Choose psychological suspense, a memoir or both! Either way you’ll get some seriously disturbed mothers whose daughters aren’t going take it any more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eragon is the greatest hope to rid the land of tyranny. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices- choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength-as are the elves and dwarves. But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. First is Eragon's oath to his cousin Roran: to help rescue Roran's beloved, Katrina, from King Galbatorix's clutches. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep. ![]() Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Don't miss the latest book from the author of Eragon, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alaga sia Perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings, the New York Times bestselling Inheritance Cycle about the dragon rider Eragon has sold over 35 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are multiple conversations where two men argue about which one of them she "belongs" to. She is called a girl despite two of the main characters having sex with her, because "woman" is probably a scary word to authors with that much interest in 11-year-olds' tits. She is allegedly a warrior princess (not queen) but she does absolutely nothing except be protected by men. The girl is, we are explicitly told, born to suffer and inspire men to fight because of her suffering and sacrifice. We know about her state of puberty because the narrator makes a point of describing her naked body and especially the barely formed breasts. One of these is a barely pubescent soothsayer. Women are almost completely absent from what I regret to report is called "the racial unconscious" (why yes, everyone in this book *is* white, since you ask) except for two. ![]() You will be staggered to learn that all of the humans in question are men, and all but two of the mythagos are.men. The premise of this book is that archetype creatures, mythagos, arise in the wood plucked from human minds. Won the World Fantasy Award in the 1980s. ![]() ![]() ![]() For Eliot, the Aeneid is an exemplary manifestation of the ‘common heritage of thought’ that informs his ideal of European civilisation – a civilisation whose underlying unity he holds as an article of faith. He qualifies as a classic because he wrote in one of the two languages – Latin and Greek – that Eliot describes as the ‘blood stream of European literature’, and because his work achieves the twin virtues of comprehensiveness and universality. He is ‘the consciousness of Rome and the supreme voice of her language’: a pivotal figure whose work reaches back to the pagan civilisation of ancient Greece and whose influence flows into the Christian era that succeeded his own. Virgil is thus a classic in a way that no English writer, not even Shakespeare, can claim to be – indeed, he is ‘the classic of all Europe’ – because his poetry is the mature expression of a mature civilisation. In Eliot’s account, a classic is more than just a work that has endured it has an importance that is at once literary and historical. Eliot’s 1944 lecture of the same name, in which Eliot considers Virgil as an example of a poet whose writing has transcended its historical moment. ![]() Its title – ‘What is a Classic?’ – alludes to T.S. Coetzee’s 2001 essay collection Stranger Shores begins with the text of a lecture he gave a decade earlier in Graz, Austria. ![]() ![]() Her work has been called "marvelous" (Publishers Weekly), "lyrical" (School Library Journal), "hilarious" (School Library Journal), "sweet, funny, and right on the mark" (Booklist) and includes such favorite books as Dinner at The Panda Palace, A PBS Storytime Book The Principal's New Clothes and The Frog Principal (winner of the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal) Late for School! and Ollie's School Day (a Children's Book-of-The- Month-Club selection). ![]() ![]() Stephanie Calmenson, a former early childhood teacher, children's book editor, and Editorial Director of Parents Magazine's Read-Aloud Book Club, is the award-winning author of over 100 children's books. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Night Circus defies both genres and expectations.” So sparklingly alive, you’ll swear the pages are breathing in your hands…. Part love story, part fable, and a knockout debut…. True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.įind a Reader’s Guide Starred review from Kirkus. ![]() Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love-a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.īut behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway-a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. ![]() ![]() It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Here is a very limited list of places to find it in various formats: It is currently available in paperback from Vintage Anchor in the US and Vintage in the UK and a great many other lovely publishers around the world. THE NIGHT CIRCUS is my debut novel which was first published in 2011. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The blurb seemed perfect for me: vampires =fantasy, ancient Egypt = a personal enjoyment of mine, LGBT leads = FINALLY! I was hoping for an enjoyable use of historical figures and locations to tell an adventurous tale with an LGBT perspective. This ended up being: 80% exposition, 15% unnecessary/overly descriptive sex scenes, and 5% plot. Instead, he finds out firsthand that history isn't always what it seems. What he learned in school of ancient pharaohs and Egyptian gods was far from the truth. Covens are fleeing with news of a vampire who has a talent like no other, hell-bent on unleashing the wrath of Death.Īlec and Cronin are thrown into a world of weird Alec cannot imagine. Rumors have spread quickly of turmoil in Egypt. He'd been told his fated one would be a man wielding a shield, but he didn't expect him to be human, and he certainly didn't expect that shield to be a police badge.īoth men, strong-willed and stubborn, are still learning how to cope with the push and pull of being fated, when fate throws them another curveball. But when an injured man gives him cryptic clues, then turns to dust in front of him, Alec's view on weird is changed forever.Ĭronin, a vampire Elder, has spent the last 1,000 years waiting for Alec. After all, his life has been a string of the unexplainable. NYPD Detective Alec MacAidan has always been good with weird. ![]() ![]() It's a method of working that keeps my mind and spirit fresh as the story develops, allowing me to enjoy the tension, journey and conclusion in the same way I hope my readers will find it. Sometimes that involves me in extensive rewrites, as event occur in the story that I then need to allude to in earlier chapters. This means that my stories are character driven and often take turns I never envisaged. ![]() I simply sit down at the keyboard and place my characters into the landscape and settings I've devised in my mind and place barriers and challenges before them. I don't write down the story structure or framework. I do detailed histories and descriptions of my characters, get to know them, and then I develop a very loose framework for the story in my head. Effectively, this means I have an idea, surround it with themes and then develop characters. I'm what's known as a 'pantster', which means I write by the seat of my pants. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() International action! To prevent a nuclear nightmare, the Avengers must take on the Russian People’s Protectorate, Canada’s Alpha Flight…and the undersea might of Atlantis! But back home, what is happening to Jarvis and the Avengers’ support staff? Then, Avengers East and West Coast team up when the towering Terminus strikes! And a new hero called Rage makes a major impression on the team…but will they see eye-to-eye in time to defeat the bizarre Tetrarchs of Entropy? Then, as the Avengers sign a new charter with the United Nations and the old order changeth once again, who will join Earth’s Mightiest? Rage? Spider-Man? Or…the Sandman?! And what happens when Doctor Doom targets Avengers Mansion?ĬOLLECTING: Avengers (1963) 319-333, Avengers Annual (1967) 19 material from Captain America Annual (1971) 9, Iron Man Annual (1970) 11, Thor Annual (1966) 15, Avengers West Coast Annual (1989) 5Ĭaptain America Epic Collection: Arena Of Deathīy Mark Gruenwald (Author), Roy Thomas (Author), Howard Mackie (Author), Rik Levins (Artist), MC Wyman (Artist), Larry Alexander (Artist), Lee Weeks (Artist)Ĭaptain America goes undercover! To infiltrate an A.I.M. ![]() |