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Classic films that were as good as the books

Posted by  in Friday, April 20th 2007   
Topics: Books, Film    
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In no particular order, my top three picks: 1. Where Eagles Dare by Alistair Mclean. This is one of the best action/suspense films ever imo. The film came out just one year after the books release due to the author writing the screenplay as well as the book. The first time you watch you find [...]

SciFi and Fantasy artwork heroes – Frazetta, Boris, Whelan, Morrill, and more!

Posted by  in Tuesday, April 17th 2007   
Topics: Books, Film, TV    
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If you are a fan of science fiction (scifi) or fantasy (the adventure fiction in a fantastical setting as opposed to the leather and whips variety with poor plotting and horrendous dialogue), then you may reminisce about whether cover art for novels and particularly paperback novels will go the way of album art but I [...]

What to Read? How about Daniel Silva?

Posted by  in Saturday, April 14th 2007   
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Admitedly, I don’t read a lot of fiction – most of my reading is non-fiction but if you want some airplane pop-fiction reading that doesn’t completely insult your intelligence, check out Daniel Silva‘s series on Isreali spy/assassin Gabriel Allon. You can actually start out with any of them as each book is pretty much a [...]

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