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Mark your calendars for the edge-of-your-seat release of "The Last Resistance," dropping on March 19, 2024. This dark dystopian thriller delves deep into a world where AI reigns and humanity's survival hangs by a thread.
Take a sneak peek at the cover that perfectly captures the essence of a future f...
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I've been a fan of Mark's novels since he began his Zachary Blake series, and this new release (despite being stand-alone now) reminds me exactly why I follow him. 'Love Hate Law' is a tension-filled romance novel with a courtroom backdrop, and seeing the protagonists fall for one another despite th...
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Recently I watched the 1974 film, CHINATOWN for the umpteenth time. Such a great film. Now I'm reading Sam Wasson's 2020 book, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood. So far it's excellent.
This is a eyewitness account from a 14-17 yr old of the Schindler group.
this book resonated so deeply with me, I found myself carrying it around my apartment like a talisman. the author attended and graduated from Harvard divinity school. Her prose is so strong, that you can smell the burnt rice, and cringe at the scampering spider escaping its web. this book is a haunting and potent read.
Thomson asks many important questions about American social mores and tastes as he explains how, over time, we've become inured to violence in media, especially film. Of course, he covers the GREAT ones: Hitchcock's Psycho, Lang;s "M", etc. But he goes beyond the steady change from murder is evil to...
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I am not a fan of women-written non-fiction --- they tend to be too touchy-feely for me. But The Great Silence ---about the end and aftermath of WW I is truly gut wrenching, relating not just what happened, but the people and their backgrounds involved. Did you know there was a Tin Nose Factory? Tha...
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The Intent to Live : Achieving your true potential as an actor
I actually read this book many years ago but it was a gamechanger for my craft as an actor.
When I read it I had been on stage over 1000 times at a professional theater in many productions.
But still I felt insecure about my acting skill...
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I need sci-fi fans out there? When this show came out on amazon I had to read the books and now I have 1 left to go in the series. they are so good and so much bad better than the show. there's also a whole bunch of novellas that I haven't been dealt into this can keep you going for Years.
Synopsis: On a bitter-cold day, in December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For...
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Don't usually read many James Patterson novels cos his short sentences make me feel I'm jump starting but this one was hard to put down. Picked it off a Premier Inn bookshelf while commuting & it's about a jewel robbery & murdered celebrity. Now searching for more of NYPD series co written by Marshall Karp.
The first one (mostly for French readers here) is "La Bible de l'apprenti auteur. Faites exploser votre créativité" by Bernard Deloupy.
It applies to authors and writers, not necessarily to screenwriters themselves. But, there are some chapters in here that can help you overcome writer's block, stru...
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