![]() ![]() Given the talent on display, 'The Day The Law Died!' is gorgeously illustrated in powerful black and white. John Wagner hones Dredd's trademark black comedy here, backed up by living legends Mike McMahon, Brian Bolland, and Brendan McCarthy. ![]() Chief Judge Cal even grants his pet goldfish the power of Deputy Chief, his maniacal ultra-competence rivaling even the Joker's abilities for this brief moment. Laughter? Illegal? Happiness? You guessed it. As a pastiche of the ancient Roman emperor Caligula, Chief Judge Cal is a flamboyant and ruthless despot.Įven by Mega-City One standards, Chief Cal is strict – going so far as trying to sentence the entire population of Mega-City One to death for rioting. A madman takes over Mega-City One in the 1978-9 Judge Dredd epic ' The Day The Law Died!'. ![]()
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![]() He enlists Mouse ( Don Cheadle), an old friend from Houston, to help him out. ![]() He meets Coretta James ( Lisa Nicole Carson), an alleged friend of hers, and has a quick, intense romance with her, before she is found dead. The movie is constructed to follow him on a journey into noir, as he picks up the trail of Daphne Monet. He has a nice little two-bedroom bungalow with a lawn to mow, and the whole world of DeWitts and Daphnes is alien to him. He doesn't come equipped with an office with his name on the door and a bottle in the bottom desk drawer. ![]() As a private eye, Rawlins is made, not born. More than by anyone else, this world was created by Raymond Chandler, whose novels have just been enshrined in the Library of America, right alongside Henry James and Abraham Lincoln.īut Easy Rawlins, who lives in the 1940s, is a modern fictional creation, born in the recent novels of Walter Mosley. ![]() The private eye is the natural inhabitant of these mean streets - standing outside the worlds of law and crime, paid by the hour, his moral code his own business. ![]() These are names from the noir universe, from the hard-boiled books and films of the 1940s that created a world that existed more on the screen than in the streets - a world of shady deals and moral compromise, blackmail, revenge and secrets from the past. Just the names alone let you know where you stand with "Devil in a Blue Dress." Easy Rawlins. ![]() ![]() ![]() The thing that makes Ron Chernow such an outstanding author is his incredibly felicitous writing style most of his books are around 700 pages yet they just melt away as you are reading his masterfully crafted words. I mean, for Georgie’s sake, literally everyone and their mother has written a Washington biography, so to be a Pulitzer Prize winner you basically have to be the crème de la crème, de la crème! You know you’re a must-read author when you receive a Pulitzer Prize for writing a George Washington biography. ![]() ![]() Yeah, it’s the penultimate example of the book being better than the “movie.” source: AbeBooks (plus link) 2. I will admit (fwiw) that thanks in large part to Ron Chernow’s writing “Alexander Hamilton” is one of the few books that actually brought a tear to my eye at the ending. To my abhorrence and dismay I have read so many books knocking Hamilton because of his background, berating him for his personality and I must say I was pleased as apple pie to finally have found an author who treated Alexander Hamilton’s life as a one of intelligence and purpose.Įven then, I have no idea what that bloody play was about, it had absolutely no connection to the book. As one of America’s previously miscast heroes, Hamilton is now securely back in the pantheon of iconic founding fathers, and rightfully so. ![]() Ron Chernow has written the consummate biography of Alexander Hamilton. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Just as some singers shouldn't dance, some authors should not narrate their own works. The narration significantly detracted from the grandeur, the magic, of an otherwise flawless work. You can imagine my disappointment when I realized that the author couldn't read. I read that Bergreen used translations of the original logs of the voyage as well and historical references and contemporary accounts. I should have trusted my fellow Audible listeners! Believe me, I understand the tremendous research that went into this work. In fact, the Amazon reviews were so consistently glowing that I ordered this despite lukewarm and even negative Audible reviews. I had looked forward to this much as I had anticipated "Endurance," about Shackleton's incredible adventure. It tells in particular detail the story behind the first circumnavigation of the world, the discovery of the Straits of Magellan, and the travels and travails of an intrepid commander, Ferdinand Magellan, and his brave crew. This is a great account of one of the legendary journeys of history. ![]() ![]() The two might not have a lot in common, but they do love waffles, parties and adventures. Jelly isn't feeling the festive spirit - or excitement about the mermicorn. It’s Christmas in the world wide waters! Narwhal is spreading his trademark good cheer and warm waffles, but also news of the amazing Merry Mermicorn, part mermaid, part unicorn. peanut butter! He's so obsessed he even wants to change his name to. Narwhal and Jelly are back and Narwhal has a new obsession. In the first story, Narwhal reveals his superhero alter-ego and enlists Jelly to help him figure out what his superpower is. Happy-go-lucky Narwhal and no-nonsense Jelly find their inner superheroes in three new under-the-sea adventures. ![]() Join Narwhal and Jelly as they discover the whole wide ocean together. The two might not have a lot in common, but they do they love waffles, parties and adventures. ![]() ![]() Narwhal and Jelly - and Otty?! In the fourth book of this blockbuster early graphic novel series, exuberant Narwhal and sceptical Jelly test the waters of adding a new friend to their pod when they meet Otty the super-adventurous otter! Narwhal and Jelly Series 6 Books Collection Set By Ben Clanton: ![]() ![]() No one ever said he was smart, but at least he’s happy. He wasn’t always a writer, but who can say that? He was a barrister for fifteen years before he discovered crime doesn’t pay and turned to something which actually pays even less. When he looks up at the stars, he sees the infinite and myriad worlds which are waiting for us, and which need to be explored. ![]() The sort of stories which dig into what makes us human and scrape at the darkness which hides inside every one of us. ![]() Lucas Bale writes the sort of intense, thrilling science-fiction and suspense stories which make you miss your train stop. The Heretic is the first book in the Beyond the Wall series, an epic story about the future of humanity and the discovery of the truth of its past. ![]() Yet there are those who preach a new religion and who want to be free. All crime is punished by banishment or a lifetime of penal servitude on the Kolyma prison fleet.Īnd humanity’s true history survives only in whispers of a secret archive. The Magistratus controls interstellar travel, access to technology – even procreation. In return for the protection of the Consulate Magistratus, citizens must concede their rights. Humanity’s survivors are now dispersed among distant colonies, thousands of light years from the barren, frozen rock that was once their home.Ī new Republic has formed – one in which freedom no longer exists. ![]() Centuries have passed since the First Cataclysm ended life on the blue planet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Less readily fanatical than some occupants of the role, she bustles about like a warmer (and Celtic) 1930s-style Margaret Thatcher, extolling all things Italian, whether Giotto or Mussolini. Speaking in an accent that sounds more Irish than Scottish, she resists the hyperbolic self-aggrandizement of Brodie’s credo, “Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she’s mine for life.” If anything, Shaw may be too ruthless a performer to play into the florid theatrics that have always given this play its somewhat campy juice. The play is about casting a spell for which you then pay a price, and one only wishes Fiona Shaw, inheriting the role that won Zoe Caldwell a Tony and Maggie Smith an Oscar, were as mesmerizing as the part demands: Like Brodie herself, the play still beguiles, though it’s debatable on this occasion whether Shaw offers up the requisite narcissism run rampant of which students’ (not to mention an audience’s) crushes are made - and then crushed. ![]() Brodie, indeed, could be placed on a spectrum of colorful, sometimes fierce eccentrics extending from Madame Arcati right through to Peter Shaffer’s extravagant Lettice Douffet, whose motto - “Enlarge! Enlighten! Enliven!” - could be a paraphrase of Brodie’s own. ![]() ![]() ![]() Or perhaps, like Hermione Granger, your thirst for knowledge is never satisfied. Maybe you dream of catching the elusive golden Snitch with deafening cheers all around you, as a certain Harry Potter did. There are three subjects in particular that you may have heard about by some of the Hogwarts students and which you might as well add to your listening list, including Quidditch Through the Ages. ![]() Rowling, Kennilworthy Whisp.Īt Queerditch Marsh, a game was created that will one day become the most popular in the wizarding world.” ![]() Quidditch Through the Ages is a great book by author J.K. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Best of all, it’s almost a "perfect" Lovecraft story, combining everything that makes Lovecraft … well, ‘Lovecraftian:’ constant impending dread, mysteries beyond time and space, characters driven to the brink of - and then beyond - insanity, science knocking at the doors of the nightmarish unknown, and tantalizing clues to a star-and-time-spanning mythology. So much so that a comprehensive review has also to mention every other review, and so on and so forth ad infinitum.īut putting aside the difficulty of a review, and every other review, At the Mountains of Madness is still a brilliantly told horror story. What makes it doubly difficult is that so many others have tried: Lovecraft’s probably been analyzed and dissected more than any other fantasy author. Lovecraft book is - to paraphrase that old chestnut - like singing about food, or writing about music. ![]() ![]() ![]() The power of evocation of this text is totally fascinating: as the book progresses, the weight of words that hasn’t been said, things that any of them say, is the element that plays, with ability, in the reader, taking him/her further than Helene’s apartment and that lugubrious but illuminated flat at 84, Charing Cross Road, where Frank Doel consumes his days.Ĩ4, Charing Cross Road is the story of two lonely souls united for a passion: the passion for reading, the books, for those windows that open to other lives that will never stop fascinating. Helene and Frank will talk about books, forgotten authors, sadness, happiness, faith, dreams…, the little things that belong to their lives. Helene Hanff discovers in the Saturday Review an small ad of an small library in London that is specialized in second hand books and decides to write the library asking for editions that are hard to find for a reasonable price in New York.įrank Doel answers her and a friendship starts with correspondence that will last 20 years. Extracte del punt de lectura del Bookclub (Club de Lectura en Anglès) ![]() |