![]() A film adaptation directed by Frank Darabont was released in 2007, and a television series based on the novella's premise aired on Spike in 2017. Some reviewers lamented the superficial explanation of the mist's nature, while others were pleased with the cinematic presentation. ![]() The Mist was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and a Locus Award in 1981, and critics have considered it to be one of King's iconic works and a classic in its genre. King was inspired to write The Mist by a trip to his local supermarket following a thunderstorm, during which he imagined prehistoric animals and giant insects besieging the building. In The Mist, King addresses the themes of man-made fears and religious fundamentalism. ![]() The protagonist and narrator David Drayton, who has taken refuge with his young son in a supermarket, tries to survive against not only the creatures of the mist, but also fanatical aggression from other survivors. In the story, the small town of Bridgton, Maine is shrouded in a dense mist that conceals otherworldly creatures. First published by Viking Press in 1980 as part of the Dark Forces anthology, an edited version was subsequently included in King's 1985 collection Skeleton Crew. The Mist is a psychological horror novella by American author Stephen King. ![]()
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![]() ![]() One of Binchy's strengths is her subtle depiction of gradual changes in Irish society. The children's deadpan, exceedingly serious outlook on life is both heartbreaking and hilarious. A charming cast of secondary characters includes Neil's cousins, Simon and Maud, two abandoned, nine-year-old twins who, in a surprising turn of events, come to live with Cathy's parents. Tom has a live-in girlfriend whom he would love to marry, but Marcella, a manicurist in a classy store, yearns to succeed as a model before making any commitments. Neil, a lawyer who champions worthy causes, is unconcerned about the tension between his wife and his snooty mother, and Cathy and Neil find themselves leading busy, separate lives. Cathy, whose out-of-work father plays the races while her mother toils as a housemaid, faces the consequences of having married Neil Mitchell, prized son of an upper-class family who employed Cathy's mother for years. ![]() Professionally, they're off to a good start personally, their lives are falling apart. Set in contemporary Ireland over a period of one year, the smartly paced tale focuses on Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather, cooking school chums who achieve their dream of opening a posh catering business, Scarlet Feather, in Dublin. ![]() Bestselling author Binchy (Tara Road, etc.) again explores the depths of family relationships in an 11th warm, involving drama. ![]() ![]() I would not suggest reading this book straight-through, as I did, because that is akin to synthesising an entire module’s worth of information into a couple of sittings. But I suppose that is mostly my fault for approaching it as a critic and not as a student. Even as a Saunders fan, I often found the book to be quite an arduous undertaking. However, there is the question of who exactly this book is for? To describe it as a niche publication is something of an understatement. ![]() And, for some of us, having a writer like Saunders analyse The Nose is something far beyond our wildest dreams. I was not familiar with any of the stories that Saunders dissects, apart from Gogol’s The Nose. ![]() However, like the best lecturers, his analysis makes you almost love the story and understand exactly why Turgenev wrote it that way. ![]() The madness of King George continues when we analyse Turgenev’s The Singers, a longwinded and arduous story that he loves to take apart purely because it is longwinded and arduous. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The aim of the attack was to kill hundreds of thousands of British schoolchildren and their teachers.Ĭritical reception for Stormbreaker was mixed to positive, with the book being placed on multiple ALA lists. There he discovers the Stormbreaker computer factory where millions of computers were being filled with biological weapons which would give smallpox to the user. ![]() He is sent undercover to Port Tallen, Cornwall. The protagonist, Alex Rider, after the suspicious death of his uncle, secretly becomes a teenage spy for MI6. Ī film adaptation, starring Alex Pettyfer as Alex Rider, was released in 2005. Since its release, the book has sold more than nine million copies worldwide, been listed on the BBC's The Big Read, and in 2005 received a California Young Reader Medal. The book was released in the United Kingdom on the 4th of September 2000, and in United States release on, where it became a New York Times Bestseller. Stormbreaker is a young adult action-adventure book written by British author Anthony Horowitz, and is the first novel in the Alex Rider series. ![]() |