7/10FAITHFUL TO THE BOOK?Lord of the Rings: At various stages, purists have grumbled over the way the film has fleshed out the female roles, and written out the character of Tom Bombadil altogether. Nor were they happy with the decision to strip out the dreary singalongs and elf poetry...
From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. “I love the book… It reads like a thriller… These stories are amazing.” (Michael ...
A Brief History of Time Lords was a book intended to be a Gallifreyan history textbook, written and amended through time by its author. The Time Lords are an immensely civilised, and immensely powerful, race. Yet we know very little about them, save that
I’ve spoken about Barthes before, but a quick refresher never hurts: in his bookMythologies, Barthes talks about myth as an additional level of semiotic meaning-making. According to semiotics, words are empty signifiers to which we attach meaning (the signified), and the signifier and the si...
It's perhaps the most spectacular physical special effect since Andy Serkis metamorphosed into Gollum in The Lord of the Rings. The most startling, film-related bodily transformation since John Hurt endured eight hours in make-up to become The Elephant Man. Peter Jackson, the New Zealand film ...
The Curse of the Black Lords What demons drove so many members of a Dallas New Age cult to kill themselves—and leave their money to their guru? Terri Hoffman taught that the line between life and death was meaningless. For some, the idea was fatal. Illustration by Joel Peter Johnson ...
Praise for THE MIDDLESTEINS: "THE MIDDLESTEINS has a perfectly pitched narrative voice—a way with loaded phrases and a know-it-all wit that can be pointed, playful or devastating...the book is so warm and well-observed that, despite any mockery, the destinies of these flawed, strong and...
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"Gold earrings, gold necklaces, gold nose rings and gold breastplates," the New York Times has written of the book. "Sidney Kirkpatrick has hit a mother lode!"Sidney D. KirkpatrickKirkpatrick, S. (1992). Lords of Sipan: a tale of pre-Inca tombs, archaeology, and crime (1st ed.). ...