![]() ![]() Vincent-whose column on Stephen King, ""News from the Dead Zone,"" appears in Cemetery Dance magazine-tracks the evolution of both King's three-decade avocation (the very first line was written in 1970) and the development of the saga's characters and plot. But readers beware-the work is analyzed in its entirety, so expect spoilers galore. ![]() Making sense of a story that switches back and forth through time, across multiple universes, and involves the safety of a tower that represents the fate of all existence is no easy task. How does one determine what the greatest work of an author's career is? The answer to this query, posed in the final pages of this book, can be found throughout Vincent's in-depth analysis of King's seven-volume Dark Tower epic (The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, etc.). ![]()
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6/10/2023 0 Comments The mysterious case at styles![]() ![]() An analysis in 1990 was positive about the plot, considered the novel one of the few by Christie that is well-anchored in time and place, a story that knows it describes the end of an era, and mentions that the plot is clever. Styles was well received by reviewers in the UK and the US at initial publication. This novel was one of the first ten books published by Penguin Books when it began in 1935. ![]() The true first publication of the novel was as a weekly serial in The Times, including the maps of the house and other illustrations included in the book. The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will. When Mrs Inglethorp is murdered, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. Styles introduced Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920 and in the United Kingdom by The Bodley Head (John Lane's UK company) on 21 January 1921. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie, introducing her fictional detective Hercule Poirot. The Mysterious Affair at Styles at Wikisource ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Alice in wonderland lewis carroll![]() ![]() Original illustration of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by John Tenniel 1865. Carroll was the dodo in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Late in life, he developed debilitating, aura-hallucinating migraines and what doctors at the time diagnosed as epilepsy. A childhood fever also left him deaf in one ear, and a bout of whooping cough at 17 weakened his chest for the rest of his life. It stuck with him throughout adulthood and ultimately became part of his personal mythos-including the evidence-free claim that he only stuttered around adults, but spoke without problem to children. He developed a stutter-which he called his “ hesitation”-at an early age. He suffered from a stutter for most of his life.ĭodgson had a rough childhood. Dodgson also considered it useful for the blind. The device is a card with 16 square holes (two rows of eight) that offers a guide for the user to enter a shorthand code of dots and dashes. Like a lot of writers, Dodgson was frustrated by losing the excellent ideas that inconveniently come in the middle of the night, so in 1891 he invented the nyctograph. Noah Slater, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY 3.0 Reconstruction of a nyctograph, a device invented by Lewis Carroll in 1891. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Restoring then improving the house, transforming an overgrown jungle into its proper function. Now the blue book has become Under the Tuscan Sun, a natural outgrowth of my first pleasures here. Under the Tuscan Sun was made into a movie in 2006. With a new afterword from the Bard of Tuscany herself, this 20th anniversary edition of Frances Mayes timeless travel classic, Under the Tuscan Sun. Because it is thick, I still have room in it for a few more summers. ![]() Today it is stuffed with menus, postcards of paintings, a drawing of a floor plan of an abbey, Italian poems, and diagrams of the garden. The book became a chronicle of our first four years here. I wrote about the people we met and the food we cooked. In addition to her Tuscany memoirs, Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes is the author of the travel memoir A Year in the World the illustrated books In Tuscany and. I added planting advice, "Plant sunflowers when the moon crosses Libra," although I had no clue myself as to when that might be. The book looked as though it should have immortal poetry in it but I began with lists of wildflowers, lists of projects, new words, sketches of tile in Pompeii. 109 likes, 2 comments - Create TV (createtvchannel) on Instagram: 'Tune in TODAY at noon ET to catch Kathy McCabes Instagram Live chat with Under the Tuscan Sun au. In 1990, our first summer here, I bought an oversized blank book with Florentine paper on the cover and blue leather binding. ![]() ![]() ![]() Описание: A satire of epic proportions from the masters of comic fantasy Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley People feared, back in the Middle Ages, that the world would end with the millennium. Название: Bring me the head of prince charming The five books, Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon and The Courts of Chaos, together make up The Chronicles of Amber, Roger Zelazny's finest work of fantasy and an undisputed classic of the genre. In a hospital on the Shadow Earth, a young man is recovering from a freak car accident amnesia has robbed him of all his memory, even the fact that he is Corwin, Crown Prince of Amber, rightful heir to the throne - and he is in deadly peril. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon has intensified the internal conflict by leaving the throne apparently up for grabs. ![]() Описание: Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself - Shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of royal Amberite blood. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Horrorstör![]() ![]() ![]() Following an impromptu séance, Carl is possessed by an evil spirit and cuts his own throat. It’s cute and quite funny in a Scooby Doo kind of way until they run across Carl, a homeless squatter who's just trying to catch a break. They quickly uncover two other co-workers, Matt and Trinity, who have stayed in the store to film a reality show called Ghost Bomb in hopes of catching a spirit on tape. She and an elderly co-worker, Ruth Anne, are recruited by their anal-retentive boss, Basil (a closet geek), to investigate a series of strange breakages by walking the showroom floor overnight. Our main protagonist is Amy, an aimless 24-year-old retail clerk. Set inside a disturbingly familiar Scandinavian furniture superstore in Cleveland called Orsk, the book starts as a Palahniuk-tinged satire about the things we own-the novel is even wrapped in the form of a retail catalog complete with product illustrations. That’s the case with this clever little horror story from longtime pop-culture journalist Hendrix ( Satan Loves You, 2012, etc.). ![]() You have to give it up for the wave of paranormal novels that have plagued the last decade in literature at least they’ve made writers up their games when it comes to finding new settings in which to plot their scary moments. A hardy band of big-box retail employees must dig down for their personal courage when ghosts begin stalking them through home furnishings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Initially there are no obvious leads, and when Chen learns that another department is willing to take the murder off his workload, he strongly considers it. His partner is Yu Guanming, who is his subordinate, but who has no respect for Chen initially. He has however kept up with his poetry, and has published to some success. He was an English major in college and intended to be a diplomat, but when it’s discovered that his uncle was a counter-revolutionary, the Party assigned him a career in law enforcement. He owes his rise in the department to the politics of the Communist Party. Chen is not a typical police officer he is an enthusiastic poet and not particularly interested in police work. The investigation is assigned to Chief Inspector Chen, a member of the Shanghai Special Case Squad. The story begins with the discovery of a body in the remote Baili Canal, twenty miles west of Shanghai. ![]() Set in Shanghai in the early 1990s, Xiaolong explores the politics and rapidly-shifting culture of modern-day China through the lens of a murder investigation. Death of a Red Heroine is a mystery novel by Qiu Xiaolong, published in 2000. ![]() 6/9/2023 0 Comments Triplanetary ee smith![]() ![]() ![]() He didn’t want to be constrained by the limits of known science, however, so in his hands the electromagnetic spectrum becomes a raw material to be molded into ever-more amazing and lethal forms, and the speed of light is no bar to traveling through the interstellar void.Ĭome enjoy this story of yesteryear, set in tomorrow, where real women ignite love at a glance, real men achieve in days what governments manage in decades, and aliens are an ever-present threat to Life-As-We-Know-It! (Summary by Mark F. Having earned a PhD in chemical engineering, it’s understandable that the heroes of Smith’s story are all scientists. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead without letup. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. ![]() LibriVox recording of Triplanetary, by “Doc” E.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Glossaries of unfamiliar ingredients and useful kitchen equipment. The first guide to selecting wines with vegetable dishes. Everything from easy-to-prepare dishes for two to meals for a gala feast. Inside you will find: Inspiring menus for spring, summer, winter, fall. The Greens Cookbook presents everything you need to know to create and enjoy at home meals that draw rave reviews in the restaurant. From bright, simple salads to beautifully spiralled roulades, here is a provocative, sophisticated and varied fare, dedicated to elegance and balance, taste and texture, color and freshness. The Greens Cookbook contains more than 260 recipes for all seasons, all occasions, all tastes. Using an extraordinary range of fresh ingredients in imaginative and delicious ways, it shows how to present a feast for the eyes as well as for the palate. Not only for vegetarians, this book caters to everyone who seeks delight in cooking and eating. Here are the recipes that helped to create the boldly original and highly successful Greens Restaurant on San Francisco Bay. Publishers Text The Greens Cookbook is that rarity, a book that truly represents a revolution in cooking. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the case of Naughty Dog's highly anticipated Uncharted finale, it required firm hands at the tiller and thousands of hours of crunch to achieve. ![]() The Uncharted 4 chapter deals with the issue of expectations and what happens when a project becomes unwieldy, struggling to find a way forward. This story was inspirational as it showed how to adapt, play to your strengths and use your moxie to forge your own path. It kicks off with Obsidian's last ditch effort to save itself when it pitched Pillars of Eternity pitch on crowd funding site Kickstarter. Using my backlog of Audible credits I bought the audio books and dived in.Įach chapter of the book focussed on the story of a particular game and they were all engaging, entertaining, emotional and enlightening in equal measure as we hear of teams and solo developers overcoming (for the most part) some extreme adversity. ![]() He was the writer who uncovered the unhealthy attitude to crunch at Naughty Dog, the mismanagement at Bioware with Anthem and the inappropriate behaviour of management of several high ups in big gaming companies. He is a video game fan but was also not afraid to research where there were problems or issues in the industry. I knew the author, Jason Schreier, from his long form investigative games journalist work from sites like Kotaku and magazine like Edge. ![]() |