The unstopable guggernaught that is the Twilight saga takes a lega twist as an unknown 21 yr old places a cease and desist order on Stephenie Meyer’s publisher claiming that she stole parts of the story for her latest blockbuster Breaking Dawn..has anyone read these books? I kind of like the idea of vampires and teenage angst but I something puts me off..maybe its because I’m not a teenage girl…
Undoubtedly one of the bleakest, depressing and brilliant books of last year, and winner of The Pulitzer Prize, The Road is a masterpiece. There’s no happy endings here, just a chilling post apocalyptic tale of a man and a boy..not for the fainted hearted or those who like a happy ending. There’s a film in the offing which judging by the trailer looks like it could have been given a “dramatic” make over..I’m not going to post it just yet as I dont want to put you of the book.
Buy It Here (Its really cheap for some reason)
On 20th April 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold made their bid to leave ‘a lasting impression on the world’. They drove to school, planted two huge bombs in the dining area, then positioned themselves outside the main entrance to pick off the fleeing teachers and students. The bombs failed, but the ensuing massacre defined a new brand of school violence.
Brilliant account of the Columbine massacre by Dave Cullen who was a journalist at the scene of the crime and has meticulously researched the case creating a nightmare vision of small town America..unputdownable
P.S Love the cover too
The Booker Prize winning tale of life, love and obsession set against the greed and corruption of Thatcher’s decade of excess - the 80’s. Strangely touching and poignant, especially if you were around during those vacuous times.
“It’s 1983. Margaret Thatcher has just been reelected. The economy’s in ruins. AIDS hovers in the background. And 20-year-old Nicholas Guest, a naïve, gay, Henry James scholar about to start his doctorate, has just moved into the Freddens’ blissful Kensington Park Gardens mansion. And he’ll do just about anything to stay.”
Patrick Bateman: “I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning”
The unadulterated orginal masterpiece..not for the faint hearted..a classic.
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