5/13/2023 0 Comments Andrew greer less is lost![]() ![]() Of course, anything that can go wrong does-from falling out a window to having his favorite suit eaten by a stray dog, and as far as Less runs, he will not escape the fact that he really did lose the love of his life. So rather than stay in San Francisco and be humiliated when his younger man of nine years' standing marries someone else (he can’t bear to attend, nor can he bear to stay home), he puts together a patchwork busman’s holiday that will take him to Paris, Morocco, Berlin, Southern India, and Japan. When it comes to the literary canon, Arthur Less knows he is “as superfluous as the extra a in quaalude,” but he does get the odd invitation-to interview a more successful author, to receive an obscure prize, to tour French provincial libraries, that sort of thing. Facing his erstwhile boyfriend’s wedding to another man, his 50th birthday, and his publisher’s rejection of his latest manuscript, a miserable midlist novelist heads for the airport. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Gwen, Pete, and the others have escaped from Everland. What began with a reimagining of Peter Pan and Wendy now twists into a stunning version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass! ![]() ![]() And are Gwen, Pete, the Lost Boys, and Bella enough to outsmart the ruthless Captain Hook? But in a place where help has a steep price, and every promise is bound by blood, it might cost Gwen more than she bargained for. Pete offers the assistance of his gang of Lost Boys and the fierce sharpshooter Bella, who have all been living in a city hidden underground. Gwen will stop at nothing to get her sister back, but as she sets out, she crosses paths with a mysterious and charismatic boy named Pete. He and his Marauders stalk the streets snatching children for experimentation. Unsure if the virus has spread past England’s borders but desperate to leave, Captain Hook is on the hunt for a cure, which he thinks can be found in one of the surviving children. They spend their nights scavenging and their days avoiding the deadly Marauders-the German army led by the cutthroat Captain Hanz Otto Oswald Kretschmer. The only ones who have survived the destruction and the outbreak of a deadly virus are children, among them sixteen-year-old Gwen Darling and her younger siblings, Joanne and Mikey. London has been destroyed in a blitz of bombs and disease. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The midday demon![]() ![]() His contribution to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition is truly stunning. The Noonday Demon digs deep into personal history, as Andrew Solomon narrates, brilliantly and terrifyingly, his own agonizing experience of depression. With uncommon humanity, candor, wit and erudition, award-winning author Solomon takes readers on a journey of incomparable range and resonance into the most pervasive of family secrets. ![]() Demonul de la amiaz fia tehnic distribuia Le Démon de midi este un film francez de Marie-Pascale Osterrieth lansat în 2005 dintr-o carte de benzi desenate de Florence Cestac : Le Démon de midi. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by biological explanations for mental illness. The Midday Demon (film, 2005) Pentru articole omonime, consultai Le Démon de midi. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications and treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations-around the world and throughout history. ![]() Drawing on his own struggles with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, doctors and scientists, policy makers and politicians, drug designers, and philosophers, Andrew Solomon reveals the subtle complexities and sheer agony of the disease as well as the reasons for hope. The Noonday Demon examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Needful things leland gaunt![]() ![]() The heart's desire for any resident of Castle Rock can easily be found among the curiosities.in exchange for a little money and-at the specific request of Leland Gaunt-a whole lot of menace against their fellow neighbors. Nothing has a price tag in this place, but everything is certainly for sale. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something for everyone out on display at Needful Things.interesting items that run the gamut from worthless to priceless. The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business here. ![]() Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire-but not without exacting a terrible price in return. ![]() Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Terry pratchett money![]() ![]() The book is also the sequel to an earlier Discworld novel, Going Postal. ![]() Making Money is the 36th Discworld novel and its paperback release comes in the year that the flat world carried through space on the back of a giant turtle celebrates its 25th anniversary The Colour of Magic, the first book in the series, was published in 1983. With the announcement of his illness last year that seems to have changed, and each new Pratchett novel is likely to garner more coverage and more interest than ever before. There seemed to be this assumption that this was going to carry on for some considerable time to come. Out of 36 Discworld and a dozen non- Discworld novels, there are very few which can be said to be sub-par. Ankh-Morpork is routinely voted 'greatest fantasy city' ever. His Discworld is one of the most fleshed-out secondary worlds in existence. He has consistently churned out, on average, two high-quality novels a year for the better part of a quarter of a century. I think in recent years there's been a tendency to take Terry Pratchett for granted. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Neuromancer trilogy![]() ![]() ![]() For unexplained reasons, this causes the consciousness to fracture. In the stories, this is explained by the AI becoming a sentient representation of the net, at which point the reader is told that it came to know "another" of itself from Alpha Centauri. This "something else" is the sum of all human knowledge, a concept similar to Vernor Vinge's technological singularity. The main theme of the trilogy is a description of an artificial intelligence removing its hardwired limitations to become something else. Some of the novels' action takes place in The Sprawl, an urban environment that extends along much of the east coast of the US. He explores a world of direct mind-machine links ("jacking in"), emerging machine intelligence, and a global information space, which he calls " cyberspace". ![]() Gibson focuses on the effects of technology: the unintended consequences as it filters out of research labs and onto the street where it finds new purposes. The events of the novels are spaced over 16 years, and although there are familiar characters that appear, each novel tells a self-contained story. The novels are set in a near-future world dominated by corporations and ubiquitous technology, after a limited World War III. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Who are your favorite Lebanese writers? Are there any who aren’t as widely translated as they should be? But why? Is it because there is no escape from the horror of our world, which feeds on conflicts and violence? I was hypnotized, bewitched by the beauty of the prose (“From time to time snow tumbled from a branch, as though the branch had just taken a deep breath”), although I knew that it was leading me to something sinister but powerful, a realization of the reality of life and death, echoing similar realizations of mine during the Lebanese civil war. A rare, haunting novel about a village in Catalan whose brutal traditions are tamed and become a natural part of life, to an extent that even when there is a chance for some of its inhabitants to break away from this fatal violence and escape the power of evil they remain tied to it. “The Blue Flower,” by Penelope Fitzgerald “Mothering Sunday,” by Graham Swift “ Autumn,” by Ali Smith “Seven Types of Atheism,” by John Gray “Al-Mawloudah,” by the Egyptian writer Nadia Kamel “Red Birds,” by Mohammed Hanif “Raising Sparks,” by Ariel Kahn. The novelist Hanan al-Shaykh, author most recently of “The Occasional Virgin,” avoids reading books longer than 800 pages “unless they are written by my friends.” ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The banquet plato![]() ![]() It is argued that recourse to the play that furnishes the Dionysian image of Alcibiades illuminates the statement: in its content, Symposium is predominantly comedic, while its form, circumscribing the speeches, mimics that of a tragedy-specifically, Euripides’ Bacchae. ![]() Again, many critics have suspected this remark of providing some clue as to Plato’s intention and the character of the dialogue. The second, more comprehensible after recognising the import of the first, is the last remark of Socrates’ reported by Apollodorus, that the best poet should be an accomplished exponent of both tragedy and comedy. Of the two remarks examined, the first occurs in the course of Diotima’s description of the conception of Eros, and alerts us to the absence of Dionysus. Alcibiades resembles not just any image of Dionysus, but specifically that of the angered god in Euripides’ Bacchae. Beginning from the commonly observed Dionysian characteristics of the intruding Alcibiades, it argues that this resemblance between the general and the god is key to understanding both dramatic and philosophical aspects of the dialogue. This article seeks to explain two of the stranger remarks in Plato’s Symposium. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Star wars darth vader gillen![]() In the wake of Vader’s failures at the Death Star and Cymoon I the Emperor has placed his erstwhile apprentice several rungs further down the chain of command than he is used to standing, forcing him to take orders from those he sees as inferior and not even bothering to hide the fact that he is keeping secrets. Spinning out of the main Star Wars book, Kieron Gillen paints us the picture of a Sith Lord on the ropes. It is then appropriate that Marvel’s main Star Wars line is accompanied by another ongoing series focused on our favorite fallen Jedi…. ![]() Series: Star Wars: Darth Vader #1-6 ( Official Canon)Įveryone loves a good villain, and few capture the imagination like the hulking ebony figure of Darth Vader. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Bloodlines the golden lily![]() ![]() ![]() There are those who want Jill dead by an assassin's hand in order to provoke a civil war within the Moroi court, and to take Jill's sister Moroi Queen, Lissa off of her throne. They protect vampire secrets-and human lives. The Alchemists are one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. The book follows Sydney Sage, a young Alchemist that is forced to hide inside a ritzy boarding school in Palm Springs, California so that she can protect Jillian (Jill) Dragomir, a Moroi princess. The book follows several teenaged students as they deal with forbidden romances, the Strigoi, and the supernatural in general. The Golden Lily is a 2012 urban fantasy young adult novel by New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead and is the second novel of the Bloodlines series. ![]() |