Nina Dean is now in her early thirties and has a new house and neighborhood in addition to adoring friends and family. She is also a popular culinary writer. It seems like everything is going according to plan when she meets Max, a seductive romantic hero who tells her on their first date that he wants to marry her.
Her thirties haven’t been the liberated, simple experience she was marketed; a new relationship couldn’t have arrived at a better time. She is always being told how quickly time is going by and how few opportunities remain. Ex-boyfriends are moving on, friendships are deteriorating, and, worst of all, everyone is relocating to the suburbs.
Her family, which includes a mother stuck in a perplexing midlife makeover and a devoted father who is slipping slowly into dementia, offers no relief. The debut book by Dolly Alderton is witty and sensitive, full of razor-sharp observations about relationships, families, memories, and modern life.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Maybe friendship is being the guardian of another person’s hope. Leave it with me and I’ll look after it for a while , if it feels too heavy for now.”
“Being a heterosexual woman who loved men meant being a translator for their emotions, a palliative nurse for their pride and a hostage negotiator for their egos.”
“So much of the love you feel for a person is dependent on the vast archive of shared memories you can access just by seeing their face or hearing their voice.”
“I hated lateness. Being late is a selfish habit adopted by boring people in search of a personality quirk who can’t be bothered to take up an instrument”
“You have to take your chance, it’s not like you fall in love with someone every week. How arrogant are you, that you think you’re going to feel like this again about someone whenever you decide you’re ready, on your terms?”
In the most significant interview of her career, Type-A Manhattan attorney Dannie Kohan is asked this question, and she is prepared with a carefully written response. Later, after acing her interview and saying yes to her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep confident that her five-year plan will be accomplished.
She suddenly finds herself in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and standing next to a completely different man when she awakens, though. She can barely make out the date scrolling on the television news, which is playing in the background. The date is December 15, 2025, however, it is five years later.
Dannie awakens once more at the stroke of midnight in 2020 after spending an extremely intense and scary hour. She is unable to escape what happened. She is not the type of person who believes in visions, yet it felt far more real than just a dream. That gibberish only works when spoken by those with a free spirit, such as Bella, her best friend for life. She stores the strange sensation in the back of her mind with a determination to disregard it. That is, until four and a half years later when Dannie accidentally crosses paths with the very same man from her vision. In Five Years is a remarkable love story that serves as a reminder of the strength of commitment, friendship, and the unpredictability of fate. It is brimming with happiness and tragedy.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.”
“I am constantly trying to learn the rules, only to realize that the people who win don’t seem to follow any.”
“It feels impossible how much space there can be in this intimacy, how much privacy. And I think that maybe that is what love is. Not the absence of space but the acknowledgement of it, the thing that lives between the parts, the things that makes it possible not to be one, but to be different, to be two.”
“Happiness. The enemy of all suffering.”
“I think sacrifice is in direct opposition to manifestation. If you want your dreams you should look for abundance, not scarcity.”
Until one girl, El, starts to reveal its many mysteries, A Deadly Education is set in Scholomance, a school for magically gifted students where failure means certain death (for real).
There are no teachers, no holidays, and just a few strategic friendships exist. The school won’t let its students leave until they graduate… or die, thus survival is more crucial than any letter grade! Don’t roam the halls alone is one of the simple but misleading regulations. And watch out for the monsters that are everywhere. El is specially equipped to handle the risks at school. She might not have any pals, but she has a wicked power that can destroy millions and level mountains. El could defeat the monsters that haunt the campus with relative ease. The issue? The other pupils might all be killed by her potent evil magic.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I love having existential crises at bedtime, it’s so restful.”
“I decided that Orion needed to die after the second time he saved my life.”
“Was I starting to feel evil? Yes. Now I was worrying I’d be turned to the dark side by too much crochet.”
“Some sorcerers get an affinity for weather magic, or transformation spells, or fantastic combat magics like dear Orion. I got an affinity for mass destruction.”
“You have to ration sympathy and grief in here the way you ration school supplies.”
Dawson Cole and Amanda Collier, two seniors in high school, experienced a profound and enduring love affair in the spring of 1984. But as their senior year’s summer came to an end, unexpected circumstances would split the new couple apart and send them down radically different roads.
Twenty-five years later, Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who had provided refuge for Amanda and Dawson’s high school romance, is laid to rest, and Amanda and Dawson are called to return to Oriental for the burial. Both have not lived the lives they had envisioned.
Everything Amanda and Dawson believed they understood turns out to be false when they follow the instructions Tuck left for them. The two ex-lovers will come face to face with unpleasant memories and learn the unavoidable facts about their decisions. They will ask the living and the dead this question over the course of one intense weekend: Can love really erase the past?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”
“There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.”
“Change isn’t always for the best.”
“I gave you the best of me, he’d told her once, and with every beat of her son’s heart, she knew he’d exactly done that.”
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
What lengths would you take to protect your family? Milton Freeman saw his parents die tragically in a bizarre accident. Anything for their return was what he would have offered. Josh, his younger brother, is currently in danger of dying. He is the last of his family. To spare his brother’s life, he strikes a deal, but Milton is about to discover that some deals are better left unfinished. Something unimaginable is headed at him. An evil that, if he allows it, will take his soul.
Laura, Shadow’s wife, perishes in a tragic vehicle accident just days preceding his release from prison. He walks back to his house in a daze. He meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday on the plane, who introduces himself as the ruler of America, a former god, and a refugee from a far-off conflict.
Together, they set off on a deeply odd adventure across the center of the USA while a storm of supernatural and epic proportions rages all around them. American Gods is a chilling, engrossing, and profoundly unnerving film that probes deeply into the American psyche. You’ll be shocked by who and what it discovers there.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.”
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
“Even nothing cannot last forever.”
“There’s none so blind as those who will not listen.”
Three sections with a wide range of background information and sources are offered: Dracula may have drawn inspiration from earlier writings by James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard, among other contexts. Discussions on Stoker’s draughts of the book, as well as “Dracula’s Guest,” the original first chapter, are also featured. Five early reviews of the book are reproduced in Reviews and Reactions. The book “Dramatic and Film Variations” focuses on theatrical and cinematic Dracula adaptations, two signs of the book’s enduring popularity. Gregory A. Waller, Nina Auerbach, and David J. Skal each offer a unique viewpoint. There are listings of both dramatic and cinematic adaptations.
Seven theoretical analyses of Dracula by authors like Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer are collected in Criticism. Included are a Chronology and a Selected Bibliography.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
When House of Leaves was first circulated, it was nothing more than a haphazardly packaged pile of paper, bits of which would sporadically appear online. Nobody could have foreseen the little but devoted audience that this horrific tale would eventually amass. The book eventually found its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those oddly arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth—musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies—it eventually made its way into the hands of younger readers.
This amazing book version of the work is now accessible for the first time, complete with newly added second and third appendices, unique colored text, and vertical footnotes. Unchanged from the original plot, the narrative centers on a young family who relocate to a modest house on Ash Tree Lane and soon realizes that something is gravely wrong: the house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Naturally, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his partner Karen Green was ready to deal with the fallout from that impossibility—that is, until one day their two young children started wandering off and their voices eerily started to return to another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind such a closet door, and that unrighteous growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it’s mine.”
“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
“I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I’m not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.”
The course of Jamie Carpenter’s life has changed forever. His mother is lost, his father is dead, and he was just saved by a monster by name of Frankenstein. Jamie is taken to Department 19, where he is recruited into a covert agency that was established more than a century ago by Abraham Van Helsing and the other Dracula survivors and is in charge of keeping the supernatural under control. Jamie must try to save his mother from a terrifyingly strong vampire with the help of Frankenstein’s monster, a gorgeous vampire girl with her own purpose, and the agency members.
From the cobblestone alleyways of Victorian London to prohibition-era New York, from the freezing wastes of Arctic Russia to the perilous mountains of Transylvania, Department 19 transports us across time and throughout Europe and beyond. It is filled with suspense, mayhem, and a level of intensity that makes a Darren Shan novel seem like a romantic comedy. It is a hybrid of a current thriller and a classic horror.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The exhausted men were dismissed and fled for the lifts,”
“sleep through the most beautiful part of the day,” said the chemist, a smile of pride on his face. “The darkness hides flaws, and sins; the moon illuminates only the delicate, and the elegant.”
James Franco, an actor, and artist of astounding talent has written a collection of violent and disturbing short stories about damaged teens and misfits in California. Palo Alto is the literary debut of a startling and potent new voice. James Franco’s collection follows the lives of a large group of young people as they explore vices of all kinds, contend with their families and one another, and give in to self-destructive, frequently heartless nihilism. It is written with an immediate sense of place that is claustrophobic and foreboding. In the movie “Lockheed,” a young woman’s boring internship-filled summer is abruptly turned upside down by a shockingly violent act at a house party.
In “American History,” a high school freshman tries to win a lady over by playing a realistic slave owner during a class drama, only to have his pretended racism avenged. A lonely youngster in “I Could Kill Someone” purchases a gun with the intention of killing his high school bully, but soon starts to question the bully’s own inner existence. These interconnected, sharp, colorful, and unsettling tales paint an engrossing picture of life on the periphery of childhood.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other’s tapes and find out what each of us was really like.”
“This was the way the night had cashed in. Choices had been made and things happened, and here we were. It was sad, and funny. My life was made of this. Stuff like this.”
“Funny how new facts pop up and make you doubt that there’s any goodness in life. Everyone pretends to be normal and be your friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don’t know about…”
“I drank from the bottle again and it was a scary plunge because I always wanted to take too much. It hurt, but it was also impressive, like being in the hands of a bigger force. And because of that, a relief.”
“He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.”
The King in Yellow is a collection of 10 interconnected stories that explores the sorrow and madness that characters experience when they come into contact with the prohibited play, The King in Yellow. It is considered one of the best instances of Victorian-gothic horror. The King in Yellow, which was first published in 1895, has influenced numerous other authors of the horror genre, including H. P. Lovecraft. It is also mentioned in a number of fiction works, songs, and the popular television series True Detective, which stars Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. With the finest standards in ebook creation and a dedication to reading in all its forms, HarperPerennial Classics brings classic works of literature to life in digital form.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.”
“No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.”
“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life.”
“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts,”
“Come and see my rose-coloured bath full of death!”
Two fearful people, a child, and a man, still discuss the mysteries of the clapboard homes and tree-lined lanes of the small township of “Salem’s Lot” thousands of miles distant. To face the horrible evil that still exists in the community, they must go back to Salem’s Lot.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”
“The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.”
“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”
“Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.”
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream was first released in 1967 and then reprinted in 1983. It features seven pieces with copyrights from 1958 to 1967. The original introduction and foreword by Harlan Ellison are included in this edition, along with a brief update remark by Ellison that was added to the 1983 edition. The title story and the volume’s final story, Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes, are two of Ellison’s more well-known works that are frequently cited as among his best ever.
We won’t label them science fiction, SF, speculative fiction, horror, or anything else other than captivating reading experiences that are unique because Ellison himself firmly opposes the categorization of his work. They are utterly unique and could only have been created by Harlan Ellison.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Surrounded by madness, surrounded by hunger, surrounded by everything but death, I knew death was our only way out.”
“the machine masturbated and we had to take it or die.”
“I have no mouth. And I must scream…”
“If there was a sweet Jesus and if there was a God, the God was AM.”
“Style, like taste, is resistant to lucid definition; however, both, as living things should be, are subject to constant change.”
In a brand-new home outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Hen and her husband Lloyd have become used to living quietly. Illustrator Hen (also known as Henrietta) works out of a nearby studio and has found the correct medications to manage her bipolar disorder. She had, at last, discovered some security and tranquility.
She notices a familiar item on the husband’s office shelf, which makes her uneasy when they meet the neighbors down the street. The sporting trophy resembles one that vanished from the residence of a young guy who was killed two years ago exactly. Hen is aware of this since she has long been fascinated by the unsolved murder—an passion she no longer discusses but also can’t seem to shake.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Matthew, who’d already texted Mira to tell her he was running a little late, leaned back behind his desk and did one of the things he was very good at doing. He listened to a woman.”
“It was a habit of Hen’s, and not one she was proud of, that she was often interested only in people who’d suffered in some way.”
“I am a happy person, always have been. But that’s just my personality, which has nothing to do with this broken brain that periodically and very convincingly”
“I am a happy person, always have been. But that’s just my personality, which has nothing to do with this broken brain that periodically and very convincingly tells me that I’m a worthless person who doesn’t deserve to live.”
“If you gave a man just the smallest amount of power—a handsome face, the ability to sing, a little money—the first thing he’d do is destroy a woman, or two if he could.”
At a South East London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black Britons who received scholarships to attend exclusive institutions where they battled to fit in. They are now working as artists—she is a dancer and he is a photographer—and are attempting to leave their imprint in a community that alternately accepts and rejects them. They fall in love tentatively and tenderly. But even when two people appear to be meant to be together, fear and violence have the power to separate them.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn’t open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
“What you’re trying to say is that it’s easier for you to hide in your own darkness than emerge cloaked in your own vulnerability. Not better, but easier. However the longer you hold it in, the more likely you are to suffocate.
At some point, you must breathe.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
“Every time you remember something, the memory weakens, as you’re remembering the last recollection, rather than the memory itself. Nothing can remain intact. Still, it does not stop you want, does not stop you longing.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
“What is better than believing you are heading towards love?”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
“You ache. You ache all over. You are aching to be you, but you’re scared of what it means to do so.”
― Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water
A 25-year-old Jamaican-British woman who lives in London, Queenie Jenkins straddles two cultures yet fits well into neither. She works for a major newspaper where she is compelled to continuously contrast herself with her white middle-class coworkers. Queenie looks for solace in all the wrong places after a difficult breakup with her long-term white partner, including a number of risky males who do a fine job of taking up mental space but a poor job of boosting self-esteem.
What are you doing? Queenie finds herself asking as she veers from one dubious choice to another. What is your motivation? What do you hope to become? —every question a woman in today’s world must ask herself in a world that tries to provide her with answers.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The road to recovery is not linear. It’s not straight. It’s a bumpy path, with lots of twists and turns. But you’re on the right track.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
“Is this what growing into an adult woman is—having to predict and accordingly arrange for the avoidance of sexual harassment?”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
“I wished that well-meaning white liberals would think before they said things that they thought were perfectly innocent.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
“Being brave isn’t the same as being okay,” my mum said quietly.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
“Turns out the sadness that silence from the person you love brings can be temporarily erased by the dull thrill of attention from strangers.”
― Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie
Neuromancer is a cyberpunk, science fiction masterwork, a classic that ranks with 1984 and Brave New World as one of the twentieth century’s most powerful views of the future. The Matrix is a world within a world, a global consensus-hallucination that represents every byte of data in cyberspace…
Henry Dorsett Case was the best data thief in the business until his nervous system was devastated by disgruntled former workers. However, a new and extremely mysterious employer has recruited him for a last-ditch run. The target: an unfathomably powerful artificially intelligent orbiting the Earth for the nefarious Tessier-Ashpool corporate clan. The case starts on a journey that ups the ante on an entire category of fiction, riding shotgun with a dead guy and Molly, a mirror-eyed street samurai, to guard his back.
Neuromancer, the winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, was the first fully realized glimpse of humanity’s digital future—a startling vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, recreating the way we communicate and think and changed forever the landscape of our imaginations.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
“Things aren’t different. Things are things.”
“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
“His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest of hair-fine glass spines.”
“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.”
This chilling addition to Alvin Schwartz’s well-known works on American folklore is rife with terrifying horror stories and tales of wicked retribution that will make you shudder. Everyone can relate to this tale of skeletons with torn and braided flesh roaming the land, a ghost seeking retribution from her murderer, and a haunted house where a gory head comes down the chimney every night.
More than two dozen spooky stories—and even scary songs—are beautifully illustrated by Stephen Gammell, and each one is excellent for reading alone or sharing aloud in the dark. Then Go Ahead!
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Telling scary stories is something people have done for thousands of years, for most of us like being scared in that way. Since there isn’t any danger, we think it is fun.”
“Most scary stories are, of course, meant to be told. They are more scary that way. But how you tell them is important.”
“usually the liver or the heart, that he”
“The night Ted died, Sam said he looked just like the skeleton.”
Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and huge narrative about race and privilege centered around a teen black babysitter, her well-intentioned boss, and a surprise connection that threatens to wreck them both. It is a striking and unexpected debut novel from an exciting new voice.
Alix Chamberlain is a confident lady who has built a successful career out of helping other women achieve their goals. She is so astonished when Emira Tucker, her babysitter, is accosted while watching the Chamberlains’ toddler one evening as she browses the aisles of their neighborhood upscale grocery store. The store’s security officer accuses Emira of abducting Briar, 2, after spotting a young black woman out later with the white child. Emira is enraged and humiliated as a small crowd forms and a spectator records everything. Alix swears to remedy the wrongs.
Alix wants to assist, but Emira is unemployed, broke, and suspicious of her. She is likely to lose her medical insurance at the age of 25, and she is unsure what she will do with her life. Both women consider themselves on a collision path that will upend all they believe about themselves and one other when the video of Emira reveals someone from Alix’s past.
Such a Fun Age examines the tenacity of transactional relationships, what it takes to be a family member, and the complex reality of growing up with empathy and biting social criticism. It is an explosive premiere for the modern era.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I don’t need you to be mad that it happened. I need you to be mad that it just like… happens.”
“I think it best we went our separate ways, and that those paths never crossed again.”
“Alex was alone, and the one thing she still had was the freedom to follow the narrative that suited her best.”
“Emira didn’t love doing anything, but she didn’t terribly mind doing anything either.”
“I think it would be best if we went our separate ways, and that those paths never again connected.”
A millennial Irish ex-pat who becomes involved in a romantic triangle with a male financier and a female lawyer is the subject of an intimate, bracingly clever debut novel. In search of happiness, Ava relocated to Hong Kong, but so far, things aren’t going well. Since she left Dublin, she has been avoiding her petulant roommates in her little flat during the day and teaching English to wealthy children at night. She has been given grammar classes because she lacks warmth.
An amusing British banker named Julian introduces Ava to a luxury lifestyle that her tiny income could never support. Ava moves into Julian’s flat, lets him purchase her things, and eventually develops a sexual relationship with him despite her feminist tendencies and better judgment. She stays put when Julian’s job sends him back to London, unsure of where their relationship lies.
Lawyer Edith, who was born in Hong Kong, is attractive and ambitious. She takes Ava to the theatre and leaves her tulips in the corridor. Ava desires her and wants to be her. Ava has been deftly playing the part of Julian as nothing more than an absent roommate, so when Julian says he’s going back to Hong Kong, she finds herself at a crossroads. Should she stay in her life of simple compatibility with Julian or venture into the uncharted territory with Edith?
Exciting Times is exhilaratingly attuned to the huge freedoms and bigger ambiguities of modern love. It is politically aware, heartbreakingly real, and dryly humorous. Naoise Dolan analyses the interpersonal and financial dealings that make up a life in elegant, simple words, establishing herself as a unique new voice.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I thought that if i let anyone in, they’d find out what was broken about me. And then not only would they know, i’d know too.”
“The truth is, you like Julian because he enables this perception you have of yourself as a detached person. Plenty of people are willing to offer you intimacy. That terrifies you. You prefer feeling like no one will ever love you.”
“The trouble with my body was that I had to carry it around with me.”
“You broke up with the love of your life because you saw how much power they had to hurt you.”
“you still put more time and energy into showing you don’t love me than anyone has ever put into showing me they do.”
Morgan Freeman in Se7en as Detective Somerset Contains passages from the film’s original reviews and gives some background information. includes character and crew bios, as well as information about the film’s cultural setting. examines the movie’s production, important moments, concepts, and methods. Get the whole picture by going behind the scenes with the best movie guides. Find out how David Fincher draws viewers into his gory thriller and what sort of conclusion studio execs actually desired. Recognize the impact that lighting, camera angles, and visuals have on the overall effect, and take into account how Fincher created each scene.
Discover how David Fincher’s highly stylized movie influenced his career as a filmmaker, how his direction was essential to making a movie that is both provocative and well-liked, and how his movies exhibit superb workmanship and complexity. Read brief biographies of the actor Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, and filmmaker David Fincher. Get a list of related articles and publications, a glossary of cinema words, and an analysis of numerous pertinent film genres, such as horror, film noir, and serial killer movies. “Se&en” is wonderful reading for both movie fans and film students because it is written in an approachable tone.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If you think that you can hide what your interests are, what your prurient interests are, what your noble interests are, what your fascinations are, if you think you can hide that in your work as a film director, you’re nuts.”
“People are perverts…that’s pretty much been the basis of my career anyway.”
“Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is not what it’s about. It’s not just about getting a performance. It’s also about the psychology of the cinematic moment, and the psychology of the presentation of that, of that window.”
The fifteen-year marriage of a couple has now become too interesting… Our love tale is straightforward. I met a stunning lady. We experienced love. We had children. We relocated to a suburb. We shared our deepest secrets and our loftiest aspirations with one another. We eventually became bored. We appear to be a typical couple. We are your neighbors, the guardians of your child’s playmate, and the friends you definitely plan to invite to dinner. Each of us has a method for preserving a marriage. It just so happens that ours has gotten away with murder.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But I keep my mouth shut, because that’s what friends do. We don’t point out each other’s faults unless asked.”
“My feelings about this are conflicted. I want my kids to feel safe. I also want them to know how dangerous the world is.”
“The doctor called after hearing about Jane Doe, saying he wanted an extra session. He is afraid this new attack will make Jenna regress. I am not sure she has progressed enough to regress, but I take her anyway.”
“I laugh and rub her leg. It is slung over mine in that lazy way. “The kids might think it’s weird.”
“Sometimes it’s just easier to go along with things. It’s easier than breaking it all up and starting from scratch.”
It tells the tale of four searchers who find themselves in Hill House, a famously hostile place: Eleanor, a lonely, frail young woman highly versed in poltergeists; Dr. Montague, an esoteric scholar seeking strong proof of a “haunting”; Theodora, the vivacious assistant; and Luke, the upcoming heir to Hill House At first, it appears that their visit will only be a terrifying run-in with strange events. However, Hill House is gathering its might and will soon pick one of them to call its own.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”
“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”
“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
An internationally bestselling memoir about aging, growing up, and learning to negotiate relationships, employment, loss, and humor along the way but is also occasionally devastating. Journalist and former Sunday Times writer Dolly Alderton have experienced all of the struggles and victories of growing up. She beautifully describes how she fell in love, got a job, got drunk, got dumped, and realized that Ivan from the corner shop might be the only trustworthy man in her life and that no one will ever be able to compare her to her best girlfriend in her memoir. There are disastrous dates, amazing friends, and—most importantly—realizing that you are enough in Everything I Know About Love.
Dolly Alderton’s unforgettable debut, which sparkles with wit and insight, heart and humor, weaves together individual anecdotes, satirical observations, a series of lists, recipes, and other vignettes, will resonate with women of all ages and will make you want to call your closest friends to tell them all about it. Everything I Know About Love, like Bridget Jones’ Diary but entirely real, is about the trials of early adulthood in all its frightening and hopeful ambiguity.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Nearly everything I know about love, I’ve learned from my long-term friendships with women.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
“Love is a quiet, reassuring, relaxing, pottering, pedantic, harmonious hum of a thing; something you can easily forget is there, even though its palms are outstretched beneath you in case you fall.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
“When you’re looking for love and it seems like you might not ever find it, remember you probably have access to an abundance of it already, just not the romantic kind. This kind of love might not kiss you in the rain or propose marriage. But it will listen to you, inspire and restore you. It will hold you when you cry, celebrate when you’re happy, and sing All Saints with you when you’re drunk. You have so much to gain and learn from this kind of love. You can carry it with you forever. Keep it as close to you as you can.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
“To choose to love is to take a risk”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
“All the hours lost in the cul-de-sac of your head torturing yourself with all the stupid things you said and did, hating yourself for the following few days.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love