Oh, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show was in it, so needless to say, I was glued to the screen. Also, the fact that Stephen Chbosky, the author of the novel, actually directed the movie, just made it so much better. I also loved seeing Ezra Miller, Emma Watson, Joan Cusack and a refreshingly more-serious-for-once Paul Rudd illuminate their own characters and further amplify Lerman’s performance. I’d heard a little bit about it before I saw the movie, and after I watched the trailer on YouTube I kind of thought ‘I’ll watch the first ten minutes, and if I’m bored I’ll stop.’ I really did think that I would hate it, that it would be another clichéd coming-of-age growing-up story, and I had my doubts seeing Logan Lerman as the main character (after seeing Percy Jackson I didn’t think I could stand something else with him in it) but I really was pleasantly surprised by both his unique portrayal of the protagonist and his genuine acting ability. After I saw the movie, I sought out the book and read it immediately.
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5/23/2023 0 Comments King of the world remnickSo, I ended up listening while I did work around the house and at points where it jumped, I'd rn over to the book and read the gaps. It was a 6-hour abridgment which usually translates into cutting 1/3 to 1/2 of this book. Why would you let people abridge the audio version? Your audio choice was just stupid. It is a lazy and cheap way to do an audio-recording and all you end up with is an ugly, deformed homunculus of the original. I also had the Audible/audio version which I debated about listening to because it was abridged and I really hate abridged books (in any format). My edition was a 4th printing, 1st Edition from 1998. Weight in: I read the hardback version of Remnick's book, which was 306 pages (326 with acknowledgement, sources, and index). And I'm the greatest sleeper of all time. But the Man and the book will have to wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow I will take on this book and take my piece in three rounds. He was a butterfly that Nabokov couldn't catch or pin. I'm coming with the majesty of Muhammad Ali. I know Remick's words better than his mamma knows him. Of course he wrote it, because the words ran from him. I know the words better than Remnick could hope to ever know it. I beat people up." - Muhammad Ali Pre-Review Smack Talk: I will review this sucker tomorrow. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. 5/23/2023 0 Comments Black cake charmaine wilkersonIn her message, Eleanor shares a tumultuous story about a headstrong young swimmer who escapes her island home under suspicion of murder. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett’s death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with a long history, and a voice recording. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate-coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. No president-no era of American politics-has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. 5/22/2023 0 Comments The beatles anthology amazon primeAnd what’s more, it’s just fantastic to see great players doing what they do – on stage or off it. It’s also a way to develop a greater understanding of the history of genres and their pioneers, that can suddenly alter everything we thought we knew about the derivation of popular music. But for guitar players, the venerable music documentary can offer more than just entertainment – exploring the stories of how some of the world’s most acclaimed players and artists strived to perfect their art can make us rethink our own approaches. When Peter Jackson’s three-part Get Back documentary finally arrives later this month on Disney+, it promises to be three fascinating hours of never before seen footage for Fab Four-loving guitarists to get stuck into on a chilly winter’s eve. A discussion of the Patti Smith song “Free Money,” for example, opens with Goldman on a shopping spree with Smith. With her visceral style, Goldman blends interviews, history, and her personal experience as one of Britain’s first female music writers in a book that reads like a vivid documentary of a genre defined by dismantling boundaries. In Revenge of the She-Punks, she probes four themes-identity, money, love, and protest-to explore what makes punk such a liberating art form for women. A dazzling survey of women in punk, from the genre’s inception in 1970s London to the current voices making waves around the globe.Īs an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman has an unusually well-rounded perspective on music journalism. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Brooke shields andre agassi bookNo matter how much I want to stop, I don't. 'I hate tennis, hate it with all my heart, and still I keep playing, keep hitting all morning, and all afternoon, because I have no choice. We'll also look at some of the book's lessons about success, determination, and true grit. We'll briefly delve into Andre Agassi's fascinating story, and how he became a tennis legend that defined a generation. I can't imagine all these people trying to be like Andre Agassi, since I don't want to be Andre Agassi.' Fans copied his signature look, and he made tennis "cool." However, as Agassi says, 'I'm flattered by the imitators, embarrassed, thoroughly confused. It's an insightful look into the life of one of the most beloved athletes of a generation, his battle with secret dragons, and his crippling identity crisis.Īndre Agassi was dubbed a "punk," and the rebel of the tennis scene. Open is the captivating autobiography by tennis legend Andre Agassi. How do you muster enough determination to persevere with something that you loathe? Does passion fuel success? And, when is it too late to get off the path that's been laid out in front of you? The text of the first quarto version was of poor quality, however, later editions corrected the text to conform more closely with Shakespeare's original. Believed to have been written between 15, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but expanded the plot by developing a number of supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. The plot is based on an Italian tale translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Audiobook is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young Italian star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. 5/22/2023 0 Comments Tell me how a crush should feel"Take Me with U" in The Radical Element: 12 Stories of Daredevils, Debutantes, & Other Dauntless Girls, edited by Jessica Spotswood (2018)."Why I Learned to Cook" in Fresh Ink, edited by Lamar Giles (2018).Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel (2014).Her other novels are Tell Me Again How a Crush Should Feel, which was again named to the Rainbow List for 2015, and Here to Stay. Her debut novel, If You Could Be Mine, won the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Edmund White Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature in 2014, and was named to the American Library Association Rainbow List as one of the year's best LGBT-themed books. Sara Farizan is an American writer of young adult literature. These guys have been taking care of him since he was a baby, when Todd's parents were killed in a great war (where these aliens called Spackle tried to take over the world). Todd goes back to Prentisstown and his foster parents, Ben and Cillian. After this silence disappears, Todd has an ugly run-in with the ill-tempered preacher from church, a dude by the name of Aaron. One day, Todd is taking a stroll through the swamp nearby (since he's the youngest person in Prentisstown, he gets stuck with boring jobs, like picking apples), when out of the blue, he hears a hole in the Noise, a.k.a. What's so weird about Prentisstown? Well, there are no women in Prentisstown, for starters, and there's also this weird germ called Noise that makes everyone's thoughts loud enough for everyone else to hear. There's a boy named Todd who lives in this weird place called Prentisstown with his dog, Manchee. The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking #1) Summary |