![]() ![]() ![]() It’s taken me such a long time to get around to reading it but it was worth the wait since it’s now one of my favourite books. I’ve been wanted to read it ever since I found out that it was part of the inspiration for George Orwell’s 1984 which I love. However, it wasn’t published in the Soviet Union until 1988, over 50 years after Zamyatin died. ![]() We, written in about 1919, is often considered to be the grandfather of the futuristic dystopia genre. It was the first work banned by Goskomizdat, the Soviet Union’s censorship bureau, in 1921 but it was published in English in 1924. Summary: We tells the story of the minutely organised United State, where all citizens are not individuals but only he-Numbers and she-Numbers existing in identical glass apartments with every action regulated by the “Table of Hours.” It is a community dedicated to the proposition that freedom and happiness are incompatible that most men believe their freedom to be more than a fair exchange for a high level of materialistic happiness. Genre: Science Fiction / Classics / Dystopia ![]()
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In a rare reversal of Hollywood's usual circumstances, the studio objected, and finally decided to proceed on the project without Crichton's direct creative involvement.Ĭongo's adaptation spent the next few years being teased as coming soon, then falling back into development hell, before Jurassic Park's smash success pushed Fox to finally make the film happen. On a remote jungle island genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. Yet, Crichton and company were unable to find a way that using a real gorilla in the film would be possible, so he eventually recommended to Fox that they cancel the project. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm. ![]() Crichton felt that no person in a gorilla suit or animatronic creation could properly convince the audience Amy was a real gorilla, and that it would take them out of Congo's story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wired Frenchmen started getting revolutionary ideas contented beer drinkers, Pendergrast suggests, would never have stormed the Bastille. By the 16th century, the bean had conquered Turkey, where "a lack of sufficient coffee provided grounds for a woman to seek divorce." In the succeeding two centuries, coffee replaced beer as the drink of choice in Europe. Folklore has it that an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi discovered coffee sometime before the sixth century a.d., when his animals "danced" after nibbling the red berries. Pendergrast, author of For God, Country and Coca-Cola (1994), recounts the story from the berry to the last drop. They muster a surprisingly compelling case for their overcaffeinated thesis. With only a little facetiousness, the authors assert that coffee brought about the French Revolution, the poverty of Latin America, and most everything in between. Murad IV banned it for fear that it made subjects disloyal, while King Charles II complained that British coffeehouses were breeding "false, malicious, and scandalous reports." Two books-an encyclopedic volume by Pendergrast and a playful romp by Allen-suggest that Murad and Charles were right about coffee’s potency. ![]() ![]() To purchase tickets and get more information go to or by calling 84.Ĭraig Ferguson is beloved on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for his dry wit, down-to-earth attitude, and knack for storytelling. ![]() Books and tickets will be available for pick up at Will Call starting at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $33 and include one copy of Riding the Elephant. Olin Humanities building in the central part of Bard's campus, on Wednesday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. The event takes place in Bard College’s Olin Hall, located in the Franklin W. Ferguson will be appearing in conversation with WAMC Bureau Chief and host of “51%,” Allison Dunne. “A smart, humble, and witty memoir.” - Publishers WeeklyĚNNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.- The Fisher Center at Bard in association with Oblong Books & Music presents comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson, with his new, irreverent memoir Riding the Elephant : A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations, out May 7 from Blue Rider Press. Appearing in conversation with WAMC Bureau Chief Allison Dunne ![]() ![]() I highly recommend reading Ruckus and Scandalous first to see their parents’ storiesįor all my Kindle readers, All Saint High series is on Kindle Unlimited for free to read! Broken Knight Scandalous (Sinners of Saint series & her parent’s book).Ruckus (Sinners of Saint series & his parent’s book).Angry God (book three – Vaughn & Lenora).Broken Knight (book two – Knight & Luna).Pr etty Reckless (book one – Penn & Daria).In case you want to read the others, I have my book talk posts down below for you to check out Every emotion that one can experience, I was able to experience them all.īroken Knight can be read as a standalone but it is part of the All Saint High series and back story of Knight’s parents in Ruckus and Luna’s dad in Scandalous. ![]() ![]() If it were possible, I would give this ten stars rating. ![]() Grab your tissues because from chapter twenty through twenty-six you will be brawling like crazy. The epic love story of Dean and Rosie broke my heart in the Sinners of Saint series continues through Broken Knight, a story of their son Knight. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. It’s a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. My favorite author Stephen King has announced his next novel. This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings. ![]() In his mid-thirties-addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate-Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Wed to his guitar from the age of 13, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family’s horrific loss. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. Jacobs the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs-including Jamie’s mother and beloved sister, Claire. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. A dark and electrifying novel about addiction, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She worked as a journalist, wrote poetry, plays, stories and novels, and aspired to make a living through writing, making the most of the enormous freedom within her reach. ![]() Rodoreda, daughter of an educated, relatively well-off family, lived through the cultural blossoming of pre-war Barcelona. Her life is the most crystalline explanation for this ruined world. If Rodoreda is the most important Catalan woman writer of the last century, it is because she transfers a world that only exists in her memory into her books, as often happens in the work of the greatest writers. There are Catalans disorientated by a twentieth century that has ridden roughshod over them and destroyed their city, Barcelona, which is the epicentre of some of the author’s novels. In Rodoreda’s world, there are no decadent aristocrats or bankrupt southerners. Rodoreda is one of those discoveries that changes the reader’s perspective, because she invites them into a literary world as distinct and sophisticated as Proust’s Paris or William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha. Marcel Proust wrote that the world was not created once, but rather is created again every time a new, original artist emerges: the result looks entirely different from the old world, but perfectly clear. It is no surprise that with every translation published of the work of Mercè Rodoreda (1908–1983), more readers declare to have made a literary discovery. ![]() ![]() ![]() JOHN CARTER: The creature with the spear was huge. And Barbara Klein was Sola.Īnd now, the second program in our series, “A Princess of Mars.” Shep O’Neal was the voice of John Carter. Paul Thompson and Mario Ritter produced it. Paul Thompson adapted this story was adapted for VOA Learning English. When we left John Carter, a green adult creature carrying a long sharp spear was coming toward him. Out come small, fierce-looking green creatures. He finds a low wall that surrounds a group of eggs. He can even jump very high without trying. The lack of gravity makes him very strong. ![]() He quickly learns that gravity on Mars is much less than on Earth. He does not know how, but he has been transported to the Red Planet, Mars. He enters a cave deep in the desert in the state of Arizona. Last week, we met John Carter who begins the story. They are science fiction stories, a mix of imagination and science. Editor's Note: Last week we brought you the first of four programs called “A Princess of Mars.” Our story is from a series of books by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. ![]() ![]() As the runt of the powerful Heartstriker Clan, Julius tends to get picked on by his more menacing relatives. We (marginally) prefer Jim Dale’s version ourselves, but if you’d like to try both out, here’s Steven Fry’s audiobook. That said, there are two definitive narrations of Harry Potter and it’s a bit of an ongoing debate over who offers the better one: Jim Dale or Steven Fry. The Harry Potter audiobooks serve up their own feast of the imagination, re-building the wonder with which you first read the books and re-immersing you into the phenomenon that is the wizarding world. As wild as that is, that’s not the only revelation lying in store for Harry when he learns by owl post that he’s a wizard - and is about to be whisked off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for seven years’ worth of adventure, intrigue, danger, and lasting friendships. Harry Potter is an ordinary boy of 11, except for one tiny detail: he defeated the Dark Lord of the wizarding world when he was only a baby. ![]() Any fantastical list would be incomplete without the perennial favorite of adults and children alike: Harry Potter! You’re probably already familiar with this magical delight of a franchise, but let’s go through a quick rundown of the series, for old time’s sake. ![]() |