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The much anticipated final book in the Travis series, Brown-Eyed Girl, from beloved author Lisa Kleypas Anyone who has ever been inflicted with of a renovation of the tiniest kitchen or a measly bathroom knows that this leads to madness. Wolfe wanted to have a movie made of the evolution of intellectualization of the human habitat from dirt floors and burlap curtains to the glass box of the 20th century, he could introduce into a work of fiction an immortal who lives on one square acre of ground for about 12,000 years and has to undergo a thousand renovations of his habitat. (Ah HA!! I see that Audible needs to apply some editing their questions when reviewing nonfiction! This is an essay, pretty much, not a fictionalized account of architectural stylizers.) But OK. McKee did a nice job reading the text.Ĭould you see From Bauhaus to Our House being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be? That being an articulation of just how the minimalist idea in the architectural canon evolved.ĭid Dennis McKee do a good job differentiating all the characters? How? What could Tom Wolfe have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you? If you need to freshen your memory of things learned in Art History 101, this is the ticket in the architectural field. This was a nice review of certain early to mid-century architectural style(s) and theory. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not? Still, the man sells books and the allure of that built in audience can't be ignored.ġ408 benefits from a very simple central concept. For every THE SHINING there's a MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE, for every MISERY a PET SEMATARY. If King (never a man to use a word when a page and a half of flowery prose and several local colloquisms will do) can't stretch the concept out to more than a short story, how will it fare as a feature length film? Let's face it, Stephen King adaptations vary from the spectacularly good to the spectacularly awful. The operative word in that statement is ' short'. Determined, however, he enters the room and.ah, but that would be telling.ġ408 is based on a short story by Stephen King. Invoking an old law, he compels them to do so, but not before the hotel manager attempts to talk him out of it, giving him the full history of the room. He is further intrigued when the hotel refuses to let him book into the room. When he recieves a mysterious postcard picturing New York's Dolphin Hotel with the simple message ' Don't Enter 1408' (add up the numbers), he does some research and discovers that a lot of people have died in that room. In fact, since his daughter died, he's had a hard time believing in anything anymore. He writes books about supposedly haunted places, giving them ghoul ratings, without ever believing in the supernatural. Mike Enslin is a professional ghost sceptic. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner Matt Greenberg, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski Stephen King's 1408 - reviewed on the SCI FI FREAK SITE Treat emphasizes the narcissistic and desexualized nature of this culture” (Cassegård, 2007, p. Summarizing Treat, he wrote, “Approaching her work through a discussion of shojo culture or ‘cute culture’ in Japan-the popular culture of young girls centered on the supreme value of cuteness-John W. The hybrid narrative is related not only to postmodernism but also to traditional beauty and to the shojo culture that Carl Cassegård once interpreted. This idea points out hybridity in Banana’s fiction. Yuji Oniki made an interesting observation: “Reading a Yoshimoto story is a lot like watching a Japanese TV commercial” (Oniki, 1996). The reader also becomes an “author” in finding the meaning of the narrative. However, it is the bewilderment of youth that gives the text multiple meanings. Their lives seem to be frozen in a certain small space. As Sekine argues, “The protagonists/narrators in these stories are young urban adults in a largely Americanized and highly consumerist society, in which their self-consciousness is often overpowered by a materialistic affluence that forces them to adopt the same desires as everyone else” (Sekine, 2001, p. The narrative world in such writing is full of Japanese youths embarking on a path where traditional values are increasingly lost and alternative values are unfamiliar. It is a combination of traditional and contemporary values and of reality and dreams. Hybridity is a unique style of writing in Banana’s fiction, especially Kitchen. After his imprisonment ended in 1897, he sailed to France and never returned to England, dying in Paris of meningitis just three years later. Wilde’s time in prison was at odds with his previous, posh life, and he did not fare well there. Hans and the Miller are the central characters in the story The Devoted Friend, written by Oscar Wilde. He was sentenced to two years of hard labor. In 1895, he was tried and found guilty by the state of having committed sodomy-homosexuality was, at the time, criminal. During his lifetime, he was known for his witty aphorisms, eccentric taste in clothing, and, of course, the infamous court action surrounding his relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. At Magdalen, Wilde’s studies remained classically focused, but his eye was nevertheless caught by the emerging decadent movement and aestheticism, the late-nineteenth-century movement in England that advocated “art for art’s sake.” His best-known works include his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891), and the comedic play The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). The child of well-off Irish parents, Oscar Wilde studied the classics at Trinity College in Dublin at the age of seventeen and matriculated to Magdalen College, University of Oxford, three years later. |