![]() ![]() ![]() The first time I heard Dalton Trumbo’s words was at an antiwar demonstration in Los Angeles in the spring of 1971, when I heard actor Donald Sutherland read from Johnny Got His Gun. ![]() Page after page I read, drawn deeper and deeper into the story and identifying with every page, every paragraph, every word. I was immediately drawn to it, the way I had been drawn to Kerouac’s On the Road, and could not put it down. Dalton Trumbo’s classic antiwar novel was written simply and honestly in a language that I understood. Martin Luther King-but there has been nothing out of that body of great literature to compare to this book. Upon my return from the war, and all these twenty-two years spent in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the mid-chest down, I’ve read many writers that have influenced my life profoundly-Hemingway, Conrad, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Dr. J ohnny Got His Gun still remains the most powerful piece of writing to influence me after Vietnam. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As an author I've been invited to three of their events and have been pleasantly startled, to near shocked, by the attendance levels - two out of three were even sold out. What really distinguishes Twisted Tales for me is the intelligent themes and investigations they pursue, and the high quality of the discussions they always stimulate. ‘Twisted Tales consistently produce well-organised events for writers and readers of horror. May Twisted Tales continue to grow and prosper! If you love the field, support them! I do.' - Ramsey Campbell I've been involved in quite a few of both and have found them hugely enjoyable and stimulating - I believe the audiences did as well. As well as putting on author readings and signings at bookshops it has expanded into organising larger events, bringing authors and critics together for discussions of the field. ![]() 'In the past few years Twisted Tales has become a major force in the promotion and appreciation of horror fiction. ![]() ![]() But when it comes to the Wicked, nothing is at is seems… Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on the island. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. ![]() ![]() ![]() Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself… And an intoxicating romance. GENRE: Young- Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance. ![]() ![]() ![]() “They’re these isolated women with their own worldview. ![]() Wearing older gowns with Empire lines, Hawkes’s implied that Havisham shares her older clothes with Estella, all part of an effort to both recreate her maiden self and wreck vengeance on men. “I wanted to have a ‘ Grey Gardens‘ feel about them,” Hawkes said. While the rest of the cast wears (relatively) more modern Georgian styles, but Miss Havisham wanders the dusty, empty rooms clad in the Regency styles of the original novel’s setting, holding her that much further back in the past. “I wanted to push it slightly and not do museum pieces,” Hawkes told IndieWire of the show’s costumes, particularly Olivia Colman’s Miss Havisham. The solution that the BBC and FX’s new limited series’ costume designer Verity Hawkes found was to zag where most adaptations zig. That poses a fresh challenge for each new iteration of the story: How do you make your version of “Great Expectations” visually distinct, particularly given that Dickens’ prose never turns more purple than when describing the jilted bride that time forgot? ![]() That’s a new Miss Havisham hoarding dusty wedding gifts and inflicting emotional trauma on children every six years for over a century. Filmmakers have been adapting Charles Dickens for decades - his “ Great Expectations” alone has had almost 20 screen adaptations since 1917. ![]() ![]() Never acknowledging the possibility that maybe they just weren’t that good. Third, he constantly makes excuses when projects post friends where not successful. Also as a side note, we get it - he’s rich /famous and he has dated woman that are so far out of his league yet constantly reminds the reader how he broke up with them all first. Second, he is a baby man that frames the people in his life as being cruel or cold when they have had enough of living with / cleaning up after an addict. He is constantly aiming for the profound but comes off as cheesy nonsense. Full of platitudes and quotes that sound like a man that was given a book of quotes for Christmas and pulls them out to show people how smart and well read he is. First, he writes as though he has never read a book and has no concept of entertaining the reader rather than himself. ![]() Buckle up and let’s hope there isn’t a word count of this review. Where to start ? There are so many horrible things about this book. ![]() This is the first time I have written a review but as I wasted my credit on this meandering piece of junk I think this is more of a public service announcement rather than a review. ![]() |