Chris Grabenstein is a frequent co-author on his children’s novels. His adult thrillers featuring Alex Cross, police psychologist, are by himself alone, and most of his others are in collaboration. He has written adult mysteries, thrillers, and romance novels, and young adult and juvenile light school-life novels and science-fiction. Wikipedia lists 164 books by him, alone and with a co-author. He has topped Forbes’ list of the highest-paid authors for the last three years. He holds the Guinness World Records for the most #1 New York Times best sellers and the first author to sell over 1,000,000 e-books. O’Brien, rather than the Don Bluth animated movie that turned it into a fairy tale. But it’s a quick and enjoyable read for those who liked Mrs. This children’s fantasy, recommended for 8- to 12-year-old readers (middle grade/grades 3-7), will be too young for most DP readers. NYC, Little, Brown and Co./Jimmy Patterson Books, December 2016, hardcover $13.99 (284 pages), Kindle $9.99. Word of Mouse, by James Patterson and Chris Grabenstein. Submitted by Fred Patten, Furry’s favorite historian and reviewer.
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And along with the requisite s&m scenario (a pretty submissive proves her devotion to an exacting Master in ""Too Much Is Almost Enough""), the author surprises with a canny version of ""Little Red Riding Hood"" with the heroine recast as a werewolf and dominatrix. The twin tales titled ""Mercy and ""No Mercy"" chronicle a more down-to-earth relationship between a loving butch, her imperious girlfriend and a wise, sexy body piercer. In another, less erotic, but more brilliantly imagined futuristic world, the protagonist of ""Skinned Alive"" logs on to find the illegal sexual experiences he desires. Because of one crafty lesbian's subversive programming, Dolly doesn't behave like the machine her sadistic programmer expects her to be. ""Dolly"" is an android created to exhibit perfectly submissive sexuality in a society that crosses The Handmaid's Tale with The Stepford Wives. Flexing considerable muscle, many of this collection's most original tales are set in futuristic dystopias. The veteran sex-radical author (Macho Sluts Doc and Fluff) reveals much more than a saucy and scandalous imagination in her 18th book, which depicts expected variations of s&m dynamics and sexual politics as well as breaking new ground in exploring transgender issues. It is Polemarchus (whose name means "war-lord" or "general") who instigates the flyting with Socrates during the festivities for the goddess Bendis before the dialogue proper begins. Polemarchus Cephalus' son and the pupil of Lysias, a teacher of rhetoric. His remarks to Socrates at the beginning of the dialogue foreshadow topics that Socrates will develop later in the dialogue. Cephalus' significance in the dialogue is that he exemplifies the seasoned experienced man who, though not a philosopher, has tried to live the good life and to adopt the virtues he has heard about. Cephalus and Socrates initiate the dialogue, which begins with a casual friendly conversation. Socrates has known him a long time and admires him. The Socrates of the Dialogues serves as a persona (a mask, or fictive character) for Plato himself, who hoped, perhaps, thus to grant a kind of immortality to his teacher.Ĭephalus A wealthy and retired old businessman, head of a business family. Note that the Socrates who speaks in Plato's Dialogues is not, of course, the man, Socrates. His name means "master of life," and it is he who advances all of Plato's theories. Socrates The major speaker in the dialogue. It is hailed for its accurate depictions of New Orleans dialects. Toole wrote the novel in 1963 during his last few months in Puerto Rico. He is an educated but slothful 30-year-old man living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans who, in his quest for employment, has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters. Reilly, a lazy, obese, misanthropic, self-styled scholar. The book's title refers to an epigram from Jonathan Swift's essay Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."ĭunces is a picaresque novel featuring the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Mixing traditional super-heroics with mysterious martial artistry, doomed romance and dark personal drama, Miller's character-defining DD run is collected across three titanic trade paperbacks! Collecting PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN #27-28, and DAREDEVIL #158-161 and #163-172. Miller also introduced Daredevil's mysterious mentor Stick, deadly ninja foes the Hand and Matt's long-lost love Elektra, a beautiful assassin who would become one of Marvel's most memorable characters. Miller put his own stamp on established cast members such as reporter Ben Urich, femme fatale Black Widow, mad assassin Bullseye, the saw-fisted Gladiator and monstrous crime boss Kingpin. A classic Marvel hero redefined by one of comics' greatest visionaries! A Marvel Comics mainstay since 1964, Daredevil got a new lease on life in a landmark 1979-1983 run by writer-penciler Frank Miller and inker-penciler Klaus Janson, whose daring reinvention of the character quickly made Miller one of the biggest and most influential stars in the comic-book industry. The characters’ back-stories, which make up the bulk of the novel, also show them to be a uniformly selfish, grubby and, more often than not, murderous lot, so when the bloodletting starts, few tears will be shed. Palahniuk ( Diary, 2003, etc.) ensures that we have little sympathy for the characters-known for the most part by the sarcastic noms de plume they give each other, like Comrade Snarky, Miss Sneezy and Chef Assassin-by showing how they continually sabotage themselves. 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This production also includes a ‘Community Chorus’, made up of local volunteers and campaigners, who, dressed in black, seem to float on and off stage at key moments, whispering as they witness events alongside the audience, and playing a part in drawing us in to vital scenes. Special mention must go to Annabel Baldwin, stepping in to play the role of Cassius on the first night, and Niamh Findlay, who steps into Baldwin’s original role of the Soothsayer with aplomb, while Thalissa Texeira makes a powerful Brutus. William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar Table of Contents Julius Caesar (Play, 1599, 77 pages) This title is not on Your Bookshelf. Each part is played sensitively, powerfully and – vitally for a play with so many important speeches – with perfect diction, conveying the depth of meaning from the text. While there are some unique production choices (including an opening which might be best described as interpretive dance, and a projector screen on a giant rotating cube being used as the set), the real strength of this Julius Caesar is its brilliant cast. His followers wish to make him king read analysis of Julius Caesar Marcus Brutus Brutus is a high-ranking and well-respected Roman, husband to Portia, and one of Caesar s murderers. At the beginning of the play, Caesar has just defeated the faction of his rival, Pompey. The play is traditionally packed with male characters (as Roman senates tended to be), but this cast includes many women and the importance of gender is diminished – sometimes ‘sister’ replaces ‘brother’, but nothing jars (actors playing different genders is hardly unusual in Shakespeare anyway). Julius Caesar is a famous Roman general and husband to Calpurnia. "Tress MacNeille Steps Down As The Voice Of Comic Book Guy's Wife "Kumiko Albertson" ". 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In 2014, Yokobori made began her voice acting career when she voiced the character known as the Lady of the Sea Discordia in the online video game Smite. She is best known for voicing Yoimiya in Genshin Impact and Kuromi in Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures. Jenny Yokobori (born February 11, 1997) is an American voice actress. |