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The dark tea time of the soul6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I listened to the audio read by the author (great job) and also had a book. Published in 1988, this is the second book in the Dirk Gently series. I will take what Douglas Adams books I can, but as far as the 1001 list is concerned, I would have removed these two from the list and added the second and third of the Hitchhiker's books to the list. And with certain mythological heroes making an appearance, I can definitely see Adams as a major influence on Neil Gaiman. I love the bit with Dirk stealing the car mechanic's vehicle just long enough for the car mechanic to fix Dirk's car to chase him. They should have hung around each other more. ![]() ![]() Dirk runs into Kate and they are hilarious together. But this time around, the other characters are allowed to be funny. In the first book, everyone but Dirk seemed a little boring. As usual, I think Adams liked to write to get all of his wacky ideas out there. Though the mystery seemed a little random, the individual pieces sure are interesting. When asked later, Adams couldn't really figure out how the pieces fit together (I couldn't either.) Even though this one doesn't have time travel or Electric Monks, I liked it more. The last one seemed too genius even for its own author. The sequel seems to be a little better than the first book. As a tea addict, I adore the title but the meaning doesn't seem to be within the book. ![]()
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Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle6/30/2023 ![]() Boulle used the same “experience” of being a Japanese prisoner of war during World War Two in two completely different ways: first, in The Bridge Over The River Kwai, to write a realist (or even ultra-realist) novel based on his own memories of being a PoW and then, in Planet of the Apes, to write a philosophical and fantastical sci-fi novella, in which he abstracted from his actual experience to create one of the most complete fictional worlds ever imagined. That is because his own writing – in particular his two masterpieces, Le Pont de la rivière Kwaï/ The Bridge Over The River Kwai (1954) and La Planète des singes/Planet of the Apes (1963), which were both made into hugely successful films – is an object lesson in how, as Aldous Huxley put it, “Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him”. Pierre Boulle is a writer that every other writer (and in particular every other screenwriter) should read. ![]() ![]() The Story Behind The Screenplay is a new series by Martin Keady, our resident cinema historian, that examines the origins of some of cinema’s greatest screenplays. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() It seemed as if the cares of life were getting almost too much for her, and the warm spring days mad. Mother hadn't been able to get up for a week. As she wrote, a vision of her mother's white face appeared to her between the lines, the mother weak and white, with tears on her cheeks and that despairing look in her eyes. Barnard wanted it to go in the next mail. Her characters were most often young female Christian women or those who become so within the confines of the story. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short stories. ![]() Her fingers flew on with their work, for this was an important letter, and Mr. About the Author Grace Livingston Hill (Ap1947) was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. But it was only for an instant that she gave way. His absence gave Shirley a moment's respite from that feeling that she must keep strained up to meet his gaze and not let trouble show in her eyes, though a great lump was choking in her throat and the tears stung her hot eyelids and insisted on blurring her vision now and then. Barnard, the senior member of the firm, whose stenographer she was, had stepped into the outer office for a moment with a telegram which he had just received. There was no one else in the inner office where she sat. The Enchanted Barn Grace Livingston Hill Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1917 Condition: Good Hardcover Save for Later From ThatsTheCatsMeow (Goldsboro, NC, U.S.A.) AbeBooks Seller Since Seller Rating Quantity: 1 View all copies of this book Buy Used US 65.00 Convert Currency Shipping: US 6. Shirley Hollister pushed back the hair from her hot forehead, pressed her hands wearily over tired eyes, then dropped her fingers again to the typewriter keys, and flew on with the letter she was writing. ![]()
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Leviathan falls book6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() What can you reveal about what that story contains?Ībraham: This is all the short fiction we've done in "The Expanse" universe, with one exception. : There's one more "The Expanse" novella coming in 2022 that will be included in the "Memory's Legion" collection. We wanted to tell one complete story and have a satisfying finish and hopefully that's what we're delivering. We're not leaving it open for sequels and prequels and side stories. : Can you take us on a speed run of "Leviathan Falls" and what readers can expect?Ībraham: We're going to pay off the promises we've been making in the first eight books and complete the story. It's incredibly gratifying that this many people came along for the ride. I'd love to say that this is all stuff that we deserve and earn but the truth of the matter is, so much of this is just happy happenstance. I'm always delighted to have things go well when they go well. : Now that you've had time to process turning in the final book in "The Expanse" series, how would you encapsulate this 10-year creative run?ĭaniel Abraham: Well, it was awesome and it was weird and it's great to be lucky. ![]() |