![]() ![]() He has been an editor at Rolling Stone magazine and has written for many science, music, business, electronics, automotive and general interest magazines, as well as newspapers. Marcus is the author of more than 40 books-including many bestsellers. He is a contributor to many online groups and publications. Before the Internet, he was an online adviser on CompuServe, and later on MSN. ![]() Michael has long been a successful and popular explainer. ![]() Active on Facebook, Michael founded and administers over a dozen popular groups, and a few unpopular ones. He's also an award-winning advertising copywriter who has worked on such brands as Pioneer, Acoustic Research, Columbia Records, Maxell, Volvo, Castrol, and Perdue chicken. ![]()
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![]() As their mutual provocations and mind games escalate, things quickly turn into a deadly game of cat and mouse as Melinda’s extramarital dalliances start going missing." ![]() "Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas star as Vic and Melinda Van Allen, an affluent New Orleans couple whose marriage is crumbling under the weight of resentment, jealousy, and mistrust. Here is the official synopsis for the movie: ![]() "Despite his erotic thriller credentials, Lynne makes a tepid return to the director's chair with a rather basic adaptation of an intriguing marital character study that Affleck struggles to enlive." - Hanna Flint, Empire (40/100) (opens in new tab) Deep Water plotĭeep Water (opens in new tab) is a Patricia Highsmith novel that was originally published in 1957 as a psychological thriller, the story follows Vic and Melinda Van Allen. "In 2022 it's a true gift seeing a film so unafraid of being as lurid, provocative and unabashedly horny as Deep Water." - Mitchell Beaupre, The Film Stage (91/100) (opens in new tab) "After a dangerous, ever personal, first half, Deep Water becomes crude in all the wrong ways." - Chuck Bowen, Slant (50/100) (opens in new tab) ![]() As of March 18, Deep Water is has a 39% "rotten" score on Rotten Tomatoes, while it is faring a bit better on Metacritic, earning a 51, which classifies it as "mixed." ![]() The reviews for Deep Water have started to come in, but critics aren't getting too hot and steamy for the Affleck/de Armas erotic thriller. ![]() ![]() If Ramsey fails, his blackmailer will ruin him. His whole life has been based on a lie why change now? Although it pains him to deceive the tantalizing Gabrielle, he’s working toward an altogether different objective: unmasking the Scarlet Pimpernel. Ramsey Barnes would not say he is an honorable man. The man is not to be trusted-nor is Gabrielle’s body when he’s near. Accompanying her is the Earl of Sedgwick, a thief in his own right and an enticingly masculine presence. ![]() After being recruited by the Scarlet Pimpernel, the mysterious do-gooder spiriting aristocrats out of revolutionary France, Gabrielle crosses the Channel for the most daring mission of her life. In the intervening years, her skills have not gone unnoticed. ![]() Two morally compromised souls wage a battle of wits-and seduction-against the backdrop of the French Revolution in this slow-burn romance from bestselling author Shana Galen.Īfter her late husband leaves her in debt to some dangerous people, Lady Gabrielle McCullough is forced to become a thief. ![]() ![]() ![]() James Sidwell, the Marquis of Riverdale, has been summoned to rescue his aunt from a blackmailer, a task that requires him to pose as the new estate manager–and he immediately sheds suspicion on his aunt’s companion, Elizabeth. With three younger siblings to support, she knows she has to marry for money, but who might have guessed how desperate she’s become? A guidebook to seduction might be just the thing she needs–and what harm could there be in taking a little peek? ![]() When Elizabeth Hotchkiss stumbles upon a most intriguing book, How to Marry a Marquis, in her employer’s library, she’s convinced someone is playing a cruel joke. William Dunford also makes an appearance as a potential suitor for Elizabeth. ![]() Related Works: Blake and Caroline Ravenscroft appear in this book as friends of James Sidwell. Main Characters: James Sidwell, Marquis of Riverdale and Elizabeth Hotchkiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() What it offers is a more realistic approach, humanistic in the same way as The Stand, but unique. It’s not particularly supernatural, not at all, so don’t approach it waiting for a Randall Flagg or Mother Abigail to show up. Rest assured that both have a lot to offer, different and similar things, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that Mister Touch stands on its own. It’s easy to make comparisons between Mister Touch and The Stand by Stephen King. There is darkness to be found here and villains, because there is no such thing as a good story without conflict, but there’s a spirit of hope that suffuses this book and glows from it all the same. Yet this book is all about people finding where they belong, surviving against the odds, moving forward and refusing to inhabit the past, and overcoming adversity. Most of them didn’t really have much to offer the world before a virus destroyed it, much less after. ![]() Most of the survivors are now disabled in some way. The world is not in good shape, for sure. This is probably the most hopeful apocalypse you’ll ever have the good fortune to read. Their leader, Mister Touch, wants them to make a journey from New York to Arizona, but with a laundry list of disabilities and trauma, can they hope to make it? The Skulls, full of crazy nicknames and with strict rules about never speaking of the past. ![]() Those that are left range between levels of blindness and being unable to breathe, but one group in particular has banded together with the intention of surviving. A virus has hit the world and greatly diminished its population. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of his early short stories, titled “Burning Chrome,” marked the first sci-fi reference to cyberspace. Gibson has been at the forefront of cyberpunk fiction for 40 years. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. ![]() ![]() Smith discusses how his team created the screen version of “The Peripheral” - and how Gibson’s world of the future squares with the challenges of the present - in the latest episode of Fiction Science, a podcast that focuses on the intersection of science and technology with fiction and popular culture. And we felt like we were watching that happening in real time.” “There’s something called ‘the Jackpot’ in the story, which involves a kind of multi-vector apocalypse. ![]() “We initiated our writers’ room three weeks before the pandemic hit and the country shut down,” series producer/writer Scott B. Now the novel has been turned into a streaming-video series distributed on Amazon Prime Video, and it turns out that Gibson’s future is more like the present than it was when the book was published in 2014. The future may not be evenly distributed, but there’s a dystopia-inducing concentration of it in “The Peripheral,” a science-fiction novel by cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson. (Photo by Sophie Mutevelian / Prime Video) Chloe Grace Moretz stars in “The Peripheral,” a video series based on William Gibson’s novel. ![]() ![]() "The Abyss!" Collects Venom (2018 Marvel) #7-12. Two of the hottest creators in comics today, Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, join forces to deliver a Venom adventure a thousand years in the making! With it, something equally evil has been awakened in that most wicked of web-slingers: Venom! The symbiote may still be a Lethal Protector of innocents in New York, but this never-before-seen threat could possibly force Venom to relinquish everything it holds dear - including its human host, Eddie Brock! As Eddie and Venom summon the strength to defend New York against the most powerful foe they've ever faced, there's one more thing standing in their way: Miles Morales, Spider-Man! ![]() Art and cover by Ryan Stegman.Īn ancient and primordial evil has been awakened beneath the streets of New York. ![]() If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available. ![]() ![]() ![]() The storyline is frustrating with not much happening, the book mostly consisting of conversations between the various characters and Brida. ![]() Paulo Coelho is a respected author and his books The Alchemist and The Witch of Portobello are bestsellers, however, Brida is a disappointment. She has visions and begins to understand that she is a witch. Brida carefully practices the rituals, studying tarot cards, keeping a candle burning, and dancing to the "sound of the world". The second teacher is Wicca, a woman who teaches the rituals and knowledge of the "Tradition of the Moon'. He recognises Brida is his "Soulmate', the other half of his soul. The first, a man named Magus teaches the "Tradition of the Sun' and helps her to face her fears. It tells the story of Brida, a young Irish woman on a quest for knowledge and fulfilment following the path of magic. Brida is Paulo Coelho's third novel written in 1990, although only recently translated into English and just released in Australia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The collections on display in Keepsakes are linked by a common theme. While the First World War generation has passed, these mementos help us understand how Australians experienced the war. This exhibition explores Australia’s memory of the war through the mementos and souvenirs kept by service personnel, political leaders, civilians, artists and families. In this centenary year of the outbreak of war the Library is proud to present some of its most important First World War collections in Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War. The National Library of Australia holds a unique collection of manuscripts, ephemera, art, photographs and documents from this defining period in Australian history. To understand what they went through, we need to turn to the things they kept. It is now no longer possible to talk to a soldier or a nurse who served in the war.
![]() In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. That's the effect of mass media - it keeps anything from happening. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behaviour. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. ![]() ![]() "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. “Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."īecause it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said. ![]() |