Just like the film.
We all know the story but here it is... Luke Skywalker is a young man on the remote planet of Tatooine who longs for another life. Around him the solar system comes to life and small battles leading to a war. On one side you have the Diplomatic Senate and on the other you have the cruel Empire. The Empire seeks dominion over all the star systems in the galaxy. As Luke joins together with his old acquaintance Obi-Wan Kenobi, two droids carrying a vital secret and new friends Han and Chewbacca they embark on an epic adventure that can only be told in a galaxy far far away. A play-by-play book of the movie which is almost like reading the screenplay. Believe it or not this copy of the book is the copy that was published before the movie was released. It is hard for someone like me (a huge Star Wars freak) to envision the story told any other way or for the characters to say anything else but what they say in the movie. But this book hold subtle differences from the film even though it's nearly so closely related I can almost hear the John Williams score playing in the background as I read through these pages. Beautifully written by George Lucas himself this book is a great addition to anyone's library. By the way did you know that C-3PO and R2 D2 names are actually spelled "See Threepio" and "Artoo Detoo"? LMAO 😂 I never would have known if I had not read the book. I would definitely recommend this book to any who proclaim themselves to be a geek of the Star Wars universe. This is definitely a must if you love The Holy Trilogy.
1 Comment
Totally different from the film.
In a desperate attempt to save his broken family from the poor house, newly sobered Jack Torrance lands a job as winter caretaker for The Overlook Hotel in the Colorado mountains. When his family moves in he finds a scrapbook in the basement of the hotel's dark history. Strange things begin to happen and slowly but steadily Jack begins to lose his mind. Will Jack and his family ever make it out of the hotel alive? I can see now why Stephen King hates the Stanley Kubrick film. While the underlining story is basically the same, the execution of both stories are so different they could be completely unrelated to one another. There were some similarities in the film as in the book but they were few and far between. Being a person who had seen the film before they read the book I have to say that I enjoyed the book much better than the movie. I thought that the story was much more engaging I felt that the characters were much better developed and I felt that the ending held for more gratification for the audience (reader). As with most Stephen King books however, I found this book to have much more information than it needed. But I also found that most of the extra information led towards character development mostly on the side of Jack Torrance's character. The book really Dives deep into his history and family Dynamics to try to show you who he is and where he has come from and how much of a broken man he is when he first arrives to the hotel. Which also gives you a good advantage to see how easily he was overtaken by the evil of the hotel. His slow descent into madness is definitely one of literature's most iconic references. I felt that the book was a little slow to start and much didn't happen until about halfway through. However I did thoroughly enjoy the book. As I said I enjoyed it more than the film. I don't know what the hell Stanley Kubrick was thinking when he made the film that he did. I'm a little mad about that now. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good horror/thriller read. It definitely gets a two thumbs up from me 👍🏻😄👍🏻 Masterfully written!
The Sultan Schahriar had the most beautiful wife. But when he found her dishonoring him in the worst way he has no choice but to put her to death. To ensure that this blasphemy will never happen to him again every night he takes on a new bride and every morning the bride is ordered killed by the grand vizier. But one day the grand vizier's eldest daughter comes to him and tells him that she has a plan to get the sultan to stop murdering young women. But the catch is she has to marry him first. with much reluctance the grand vizier finally agrees to her plan knowing that if she fails he will have to murder her himself. With the help of her younger sister they weave a web of stories to enchant the sultan. Every night a new story takes place and every night they are spared their lives. Stories within stories with in stories are interweave so cleverly and beautifully that they flow into the readers very soul. No these are not like the Aladdin cartoons but (as we all know) Disney screws up everything LOL. Vaguely reminiscent of Aesop's Fables, these stories are magnificent and hold their own life lessons within timeless moral confines. I enjoyed this book immensely! The illustrations are amazingly gorgeous and add to the feel of the book and the stories themselves and in a way even make the stories come to life. I feel that everyone should read this book of stories at least once in their lives. It's well worth it! ❤️ A riveting coming-of-age novel set in a dark fantasy world.
Zylia is a teenager unseen in the world around her and for most teenagers that is their world. But Zylia finds herself passing into shadow... into the "In-Between World." However when she happens upon discovering the mystery of her long disappeared great-aunt she finds herself unable to continue her journey into the "In-Between World." She must stay and discover what happened to her aunt. But can she unravel the mystery before she is trapped forever? Great book Misty! Very well written and the story was very well thought out. The plot was executed beautifully. There is good character development and everything is easy for the reader to follow. It was dark in many aspects but not so dark that it would be considered Gothic. Very well done! Like her first book I really enjoyed the second one. I'm very excited to have read these books by Misty Mount and would highly recommend them two people who enjoy fantasy with a little bit of mystery. So cute!
Follow Sully and Mike through their Adventures in Monsters Inc and Monsters University. Along with some other great stories of friendship and life lessons. My son got this from our local library as a prize for reading over 100 books. And let me say I'm glad he did. This book is awesome for kids. I read this to my three-year-old and he absolutely loved this book. The pictures are bright and Vivid just like the movies. And the stories are easily read and followed. I believe a first grader would be able to read this book with no problem. Though it is a little longer of a book a chapter by chapter could be read. The stories are cute and some of them adhere to the movies themselves. This is all around just a good book for kids and even fun for adults. I would highly recommend this book to everyone. Pretty epic.
A murder mystery brings together some of Marvel's greatest heroes including the likes of Iron Man, She Hulk and Thor. The non-stop rampage continues until both Red and Green Hulk collide. Only one can survive this epic battle of Hulk proportion! This graphic novel was very entertaining. The Artistry is very bold and brightly colored as well a Marvel graphic comic should be. There are many characters from throughout the Marvel Universe. The storyline is well thought out and well executed. The ending was good but it's as should be expected from a Marvel comic. Happy Disney ending all the way! LOL 😋 I personally love Jeph Loeb comics because they tend to take on a little bit darker of a persona then most not done by him. He also has a way of weaving originality into his stories which is very unique to him since pretty much everything that you can do with superheroes has already been done. I really admire his storytelling. I would definitely recommend this graphic novel to pretty much everyone. 😊 “Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.” - Robert Shaw (Jaws 1975) I'm not going to lie this is the reason I read this book. This speech from the movie Jaws inspired such fear and terror and added to the movie so well that the real story had to be even scarier. And so it was in 1945 that after the USS Indianapolis carried the Hiroshima bomb it sank into the Philippine Sea leaving its crew to either sink, die of hypothermia or starvation, commit suicide, or simply wait for their turn. A gripping and heated journey through the life and death of this ship and its crew. Amazingly written in a format that uses many naval terms but not so many that the layman cannot follow. Instead of just listing off the facts the authors decided to turn the book into a play-by-play story. Which makes it a lot easier for the reader to read. But there is no mistaking that the authors definitely did their homework on this one. This might possibly be the perfect maritime novel. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who's interested in the military, Naval History, US History, the history of World War II or even just history in general. Reread:
Oscar Wilde takes us back to a time in England where high society was the grain of life, women were nothing but idol play things and men mostly lusted after each other rather than the embrace of a woman. As much as people like to see Dorian Gray as the villain in this novel, I very much feel he is rather the victim. I feel that if it wasn't for his acquaintance turned friend Lord Henry, that this may have very well been a happy tale. It was Lord Henry's influence that turned a painter's admiration into lust, women into meaningless objects and the leader in Gray's downfall. Although some of the story was interesting/entertaining, there was a great portion of it that was not. Wilde's writing is very drull to say the least. However this is coming from an American point of view. I'm sure someone from Brittain who enjoys all the high society chit chat would have found the tale much more captivating. All-in-all I would say this is an okay read given the classic that it is but I wouldn't recommend it unless I knew someone extremely into the classics or British history. Boring to say the least.
In this book we are told the story of Marius from his own lips as he explains it to a newly risen vampire named Thorne. His story was already captioned and a couple of the previous books. Perhaps I liked his story better as a caption instead of in full. Instead of wise he comes off to me as very pretentious and self-righteous. His story is boring because he is always in the right about everything and everyone else is in the wrong. And at first glance this may sound like the story of Lestat however he differs from Lestat in the fact that he's not comical and bratty. Instead he is simply just always the victor in every circumstance. Though it is beautifully written like the rest of the series, I have to say I did not enjoy this book very much and found it a rather daunting read. I am hoping that the next few books are better but as I'm heading into number 7 my hopes are not very high at this point. WARNING!!! You will either love this book entirely or hate it utterly. Our story is narrated by Fielding Bliss who is now an old man telling you flashbacks back to the year 1984 when his father who was a lawyer and a man confused in his faith decided to put an letter in the paper inviting the devil to their little town of Breathed, Ohio. Everyone expected the devil to show up with horns and a pitchfork and a band of demons with a wall of fire behind him. But when the devil shows up in a form of a 13 year old black boy everyone is taken aback. The summer of 1984 was hot and as the temperature rises, so do accusations and hostilities in this little town. When heat and mob mentality combine bad things are bound to happen. Every once in a great while there is a book that pulls from me such a motion and it pulls straight from the heart. This was definitely one of those books. It not only made me cry profusely but it also made me question every life decision I've ever made. It challenged me as a person and the morals and belief systems that I have instilled in me. it made me question the friends that I've chosen and the neighbors that I've chosen to live beside. This book is not for the faint of heart. It is not something that I would recommend to just anybody. I caution you that though it is not a very long book it is a very heavy read. this book tore me apart in more ways than one. As I stated before you either love this book or you will hate it. There is no in between. And once you read this book I caution you that there is no going back. |
Sumi's Books
Archives
May 2020
|