Michael crichton the 13th warrior7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Based on Crichton’s 1976 novel Eaters of the Dead, which retold the story of Beowulf as witnessed through the eyes of real-life 10 th century traveling scholar Ahmad Ibn Fadlan, McTiernan’s adaptation obscures the novel’s intriguing premise with a bunch of admittedly well-shot medieval action sequences and a storyline that is closer to Seven Samuraithan an Old English epic poem. the worst Michael Crichton adaptation ever, sits John McTiernan’s The 13 th Warrior. ![]() ![]() Sandwiched between the embarrassing 80s/90s white male politics of Rising Sun and Disclosure (“The real villains are powerful women and the Japanese!”) and the general terribality of Richard Donner’s 2003 film Timeline, a.k.a. Crichton, Jurassic Park the film is completely different from the source novel, and Crichton’s draft of the screenplay was massively rewritten by David Koepp.) Philip Kaufman’s Rising Sun, Frank Marshall’s Congo, and Barry Levinson’s one-two punch of Disclosureand Sphereall threw their hats into the ring as Hollywood followed the mistaken assumption that the secret behind Jurassic Park’s success was in any way connected to Crichton’s writing. The second half of the 1990s tried as hard as it could to make every single Michael Crichton novel into a blockbuster motion picture after the record-breaking success of Jurassic Park. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman-who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking-he runs his own woodshop- Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois-“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”-to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. Parks and Recreation actor and Making It co-host Nick Offerman shares his humorous fulminations on life, manliness, meat, and much more in this New York Times bestseller. ![]() The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() But it has exploded.' In gorgeous, moving, humorous, sharp, and unforgettable prose, with pointillist portraits of a girl and then a young woman coming of age, Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy that gender and sexuality are fluid that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. "In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure."A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything-based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'". ![]() Blur by kristen middleton7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These included 'you were fine 10 minutes ago' and I've got a cold, I can't be bothered to fight you Emily'. The Sun published a journal entry written by Emily, with a list of things staff had allegedly said to her. The father said nothing would bring his daughter back but urged for a public inquiry.Įmily’s father David said they promised they would fight for justice as Nadia's father Hakeel added that things need to change. During her three years of care by mental health services she was subject to ten different placements and there was a 'consistent and insufficient recognition of risk', a report found Nadia Sharif took her life in West Lane in August 2019. ![]() Clockwork angels kevin anderson7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Anderson fans-and anyone interested in a truly astonishing story of a young man's journey across a remarkable steampunk landscape with airships, pirates, alchemy, lost cities, a fabulous carnival, and a hero who insists on making his dreams come true. Clockwork Angels: The Comic Scripts is a fascinating book in its own right, to be studied by comic writers, Rush fans, Kevin J. ![]() Clockwork Angels: The Comic Scripts pulls aside the creative curtain, showing the original scripts, panel by panel, interactions between author and artist, as well as all the secret "Easter eggs" intentionally planted throughout the images as a special treat for Rush fans. Anderson and Peart, working with comics artist Nick Robles, brought the epic tale to a visual canvas, a six-issue graphic novel published by BOOM! Studios. Anderson teams up with Rush lyricist and drummer Neil Peart to expand the story set out in Clockwork Angels. Published by ECW Press, September 2012 (Review copy received) ISBN: 978 1 77041 121 0 316 pages Review by Mark Yon Don’t know how much of this is known at SFFWorld, but I am a big fan of RUSH, the Canadian rock band recently celebrating over 35 years of activity. Clockwork Angels is a steampunk fantasy adventure-and an innovative multimedia feast! Based on a story and lyrics by legendary drummer Neil Peart, Clockwork Angels became the worldwide bestselling concept album by Rush and was developed into a New York Times bestselling and award-winning novel by Kevin J. International bestselling author Kevin J. Clockwork Angels The Novel by Kevin J Anderson, from a story and lyrics by Neil Peart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since Daniel is hardly “the boy” of Rice’s book, this series can almost be viewed as a sequel - or at least a critique of unreliable narrators, since the version of his life’s story that Louis is now prepared to tell has little in common with what he once recounted. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel has gone professionally fallow, so he jumps when Louis summons him to Dubai - chosen, presumably, as an isolated place where money can make your past disappear - for another extended conversation and the chance to actually publish this one. The framing device introduces us to Eric Bogosian’s Daniel Malloy, an aging gonzo journalist, who, 40+ years earlier, conducted an interview with a vampire (Jacob Anderson’s Louis). Unlike the Neil Jordan feature, which Rice scripted herself, Jones’ adaptation maintains the shape of the book but very few of the specifics. ![]() It isn’t quite scary, but it’s at least unsettling at times. But through five of the first season’s seven episodes, I appreciated the way this Interview solidified the source material’s central relationship, refined some of its more humorous aspects and plunged thoroughly into the campiness of others. It’s a worthy goal if not a perfect execution, and I think undead devotees preferring one extreme or the other - as if genre progenitors like Bram Stoker’s Dracula weren’t already half soapy melodrama and half horror - will be frustrated. 'Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches' Renewed at AMC ![]() Kon tiki novel7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() He always had a presence when we grew up, and Espen and I, we started making films together when we were about ten years old, actually. We’re from a small town in the south of Norway, and it’s only ten minutes away from where Thor Heyerdahl comes from. Ronning: Well the story of Kon-Tiki and Thor Heyerdahl’s voyage across the Pacific always had a presence. If you made it as a fiction movie, it’d be too unbelievable. THR: I know it’s a true story, but it’s almost too insane to be true. Just making a film about the adventure was a massive feat, and in a recent chat, the pair told The Hollywood Reporter about the crazy production. Now, nearly 65 years since the first journey, the trip has been re-created in a film by Norwegian directors Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg the movie was nominated for an Oscar earlier this year, and is now opening in American theaters. Heyerdahl became a hero and celebrity, selling 50 million copies of his book about the journey, and winning an Oscar for the documentary about his time at sea, as well. Despite all the odds, the trip was a success, a 4,300 mile journey made in 101 days with all its crew alive and well. ![]() Nemesis by isaac asimov7/4/2023 ![]() Unfortunately, the science here also isn’t particularly interesting. ![]() This time, however, clarity isn’t enough to carry the story.Īs always with Asimov, the science is credible, though he stretches the point with Nemesis’ local lifeform. Asimov, in a brief foreword, makes a point that he tries to write clearly rather than poetically, and he’s always succeeded at that. He’s got a lot of the right elements in place – Eugenia, the troubled but brilliant teen Eugenia, her talented but outmatched mother Crile, the focused but malleable father Janus, the colony’s megalomanic director – but much of the dialogue and introspection seems more rote than inspired. ![]() It has his usual light-hearted, friendly style, but it lacks the spark of ingenuity that brought his Foundation and Robot stories to life. This is one of the last of Isaac Asimov’s solo novels, and I’m sorry to say it’s not his best. ![]() ![]() ![]() Stine did this by design, however, to emphasize fantastic "fun" adventures rather than realistic terrors. He might kill off a dozen teens in a single Fear Street adventure, but none of the characters would have cancer. To cope, they meet at midnight and share short stories about characters with veiled symbolic connections to their own anxieties around death and the afterlife.ĭeep stuff, right? Stuff you wouldn't expect to find in teen fiction from 1994. They live in a hospice together, physically and emotionally exhausted, expecting to die every day. The entire cast of characters are terminally ill teenagers faced with such real-life horrors as cancer and AIDS. ![]() The Midnight Club (1994) is an excellent example of just how different they can be. They both dominated the YA horror market during the '90s but are otherwise very different authors. ![]() It's weird that Christopher Pike always gets compared to R.L. ![]() Pbs h is for hawk7/3/2023 ![]() RICK SCOTT’s “Rescue America” plan, which states, “All federal legislation sunsets in 5 years,” with no exceptions for Social Security and Medicare: “ This is a bad idea. ![]() SCOTT, PART LVII - Senate Minority Leader MITCH McCONNELL on Florida Republican Sen. dinner party to sound in the know!ĭAILY SANTOS - “Santos was charged with theft in 2017 case tied to Amish dog breeders,” by Jacqueline Sweet Example of its usage: “We don’t know when POTUS is going to announce the reelect because the quint hasn’t decided yet.” Throw it around at your next D.C. WHITE HOUSE JARGON WATCH - We heard a new term this week used inside the West Wing to describe President JOE BIDEN’s top five aides: “the quint.” The term refers to MIKE DONILON, STEVE RICCHETTI, ANITA DUNN, BRUCE REED and JEN O’MALLEY DILLON. With China hawks now dominating the thinking of both parties when it comes to Sino-American relations, Max Baucus is one of the leading voices warning that the hawks have things dangerously wrong. ![]() |