But he envies the strangers who will never meet her - who value her inaccessibility: She services their fantasies without imposing her own reality. Some of these characters, if they could find each other, would find the answers to their needs. The baker, for example, has unexplored reserves of tenderness. He could help the sad young woman Lori Singer who plays the cello, and waits for those moments when her mother Annie Ross , the jazz singer, is sober. The cop would probably be happier talking with the phonesex girl than carrying on his endless affairs, which have no purpose except to anger his wife, who is past caring.
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He likes the deception more than the sex, and could get off by telling the stranger on the other end of the phone that he'd been cheating with "another phone-sex girl. Yet these people have a certain nobility to them. They keep on trying. They hope for better times. The hash-house waitress Tomlin loves her husband Tom Waits , who is so good to her when he's not drinking that she forgives the dark times when he is drinking. The parents of the little boy find an unexpected consolation from the baker. The wife Anne Archer of one of the fly-fishermen finds a new resolve and freedom.
Altman has made this kind of film before, notably in "Nashville" and "The Player" He doesn't like stories that pretend that the characters control their destinies, and their actions will produce a satisfactory outcome. He likes the messiness and coincidence of real life, where you can do your best, and some days it's just not good enough.
He doesn't reproduce Raymond Carver's stories so much as his attitude. In a Carver story and you should read one if you never have , there is typically a moment when an ordinary statement becomes crucial, or poetic, or sad. People get blinding glimpses into the real nature of their lives; the routine is peeled aside, and they can see they've been stuck in a rut for years, going through the motions. Sometimes they see with equal clarity that they are free to take charge, that no one has sentenced them to repeat the same mistakes.
Carver died five years ago, at 50, of a brain tumor. He believed he would have died at 40, of alcoholism, if he hadn't found a way to stop drinking. When he knew the cancer would kill him, he wrote a poem about that bonus of 10 years, called "Gravy. Then came the comeback of "The Player," and now here is "Short Cuts. PG min Action, Comedy, Fantasy. A group of inept amateur superheroes must try to save the day when a supervillian threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city. Macy , Hank Azaria. Mystery Men" has moments of brilliance waving their arms to attract attention in a sea of dreck.
It's a long, shapeless, undisciplined mess, and every once in awhile it generates a big laugh. Since many of thel aughs seems totally in the character of the actors who get them, they play like ad libs -- as if we're hearing asides to the audience. Captain Amazing Greg Kinnear is the top-rated superhero in Champion City, a special-effects metropolis made of skyscrapers, air buses and dirigibles. He wears sponsor badges on his leather suit Ray-O-Vac, Pennzoil like Indy drivers, but the sponsors are growing restless because his recent exploits are tired and dumb.
Consulting with his publicist Ricky Jay , he decides to spring his arch enemy from jail. Maybe Casanova Frankenstein Geoffrey Rush can improve his Q rating by inspiring more colorful adventures. The problem with this strategy is that Casanova is smart and the Captain is dumb, and soon Amazing is the villain's captive.
That makes an opening for second-string superheroes to try to rescue Amazing and enhance their own reputations. Macy , who whacks people with a spade. They're joined by new hopefuls, including The Spleen Paul Reubens , whose weapon is voluminous flatulence; the Bowler Janeane Garofolo , whose father's skull is inside her transparent bowling ball; Invisible Boy Kel Mitchell , whose invisibility has to be taken mostly on trust, since you can't see if he's really there; and The Sphinx Wes Studi , whose sayings make the Psychic Friends Network look deep.
All of these characters are hurled into elaborate special-effects scenes, where they get into frenetic human traffic jams. Comedy depends on timing, and chaos is its enemy. We see noisy comic book battles of little consequence, and finally we weary: And yet the movie has its moments. I liked William H. Macy's version of the Henry V's speech on the eve of battle "We few R min Action, Biography, Crime. A recounting of Domino Harvey 's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.
Now it's about stripping, too. In it, Keira Knightley is on her first ever bust as the titular bounty hunter. The bust goes wrong, climaxing in a pump-action standoff in which she and her two colleagues, Ed and Choco, are surrounded by a roomful of hoodlums pointing guns at their heads. Fingers are poised on hair-triggers.
Tension hangs thick in the air. One false move and they'll be torn apart in a hail of bullets And what, precisely, does our deadly heroine decide to do about this predicament? Go for her gun? She decides to take her clothes off and give the bad guys a lapdance.
You know, to calm the situation.
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As Knightley inexplicably cavorts in her skimpies, it becomes apparent that this 'true story' is anything but. More affectionate tribute than strict biopic, from this point it's clear that Domino is making no attempt at factual accuracy whatsoever. Its aim is to entertain. Fans of Scott's typical kitchen-sink aesthetic certainly won't be disappointed. Shouty, sassy and inventive, his follow-up to Man On Fire may tone down marginally on the whip-pan, crash-zooming excesses of Denzel's revenge rampage, but it's still packed with as much in the way of visual pyrotechnics as it is twisted black comedy, kinetic action and wilful, unashamed sexiness.
When she signed on to the project, some considered Knightley a casting stretch as the real-life model turned mean-machine and her awkwardly plummy trailer voiceover "I. Hunter" didn't bode well. Hipster trousers constantly at half-mast, builder's bum and G-string proudly protruding, she marches about with a cocky tomboy swagger that - apart from one or two ridiculously overplayed pieces of faux macho posturing - sees her hold her own in a sea of gangsters and grime.
In fact, not only does the porcelain-skinned, year-old posh bird from Middlesex convincingly buddy up with the beefy Rourke and unhinged Ramirez, but she proves the ultimate wish-fulfilment fantasy for adolescent girls: Jean Claude Van Dame. Disappointingly though, Richard Kelly's screenplay is an enthusiastic muddle. Like Donnie Darko, it's often hilarious and always sharp, with the uneasy love triangle between Domino and her two colleagues providing a neat central spine. But, unlike Kelly's cult calling-card, it starts sloppily and is packed with a dizzying confusion of subplots that ping around from unconvincing backstory to armed heists to reality TV and disease-of-the-week melodrama in a blink.
Some tangents are terrific Christopher Walken's hilarious, font-obsessed TV executive and ex-Beverly Hills ers Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering playing themselves as his presenters , others unnecessary vehicles for a succession of jarring cameos oh good, it's Jerry Springer. Considering its overall satirical sparkiness and snappy dialogue, it's a shame more of the excess fat wasn't liposuctioned. If it had, then maybe, just maybe, we would be talking alchemy of Scott and Tarantino proportions Even so, Domino packs so much action, fun and pathos into its running time that it's impossible not to like.
Sensibly spotting that as a profession, bounty hunting can be a bit, well, dull - roundup bail jumpers, collect cash - Scott introduces a convoluted Mob scam that sucks in Domino and co and builds toward a tense, explosive climax that delivers in tragic style. Throughout, he lingers on his leading lady, lasciviously - of his six-camera set-up, there must have been one permanently dedicated to focus on Knightley's rump - and frames her in enough filmmaking fireworks and excitable vibrancy to perfectly showcase his undisputed technical edge.
So who was the real Domino Harvey? Still not the foggiest.
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But in the meantime, this one will do nicely. Terrific fun and sexy as hell, but the story's too mushy and wayward to really resonate. Still, Knightley has a ball and Rourke is a joy once more. R 88 min Comedy, Drama, Fantasy. A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide. Imagine that after you kill yourself, you don't go to heaven or hell but to an industrial wasteland where nothing works right, there are no good jobs, the fast food is generic, and everybody else who lives there committed suicide, too.
Oh, and it doesn't look like anyone has sex, either, perhaps for theological reasons: Could a child be born in the land of the dead? How would you like to have a dad with a hole in his head? Think of Parents' Day. He has been forsaken by his girlfriend, Desiree Leslie Bibb , and has slashed his wrists. Apparently fate has designed a macabre punishment for those who commit the sin of suicide: You don't die, but linger forever in a life like the one you had before, but worse, and surrounded by suicidal people.
And what kind of a name is Zia, anyway? A zia is a brachiopod, and Wiki reports that "99 percent of [this] lampshell species are both fossils and extinct. Both fossils and extinct. Sounds like your neighbors in Wristcutterland. Zia makes a friend named Eugene Shea Whigham , who, as you have probably guessed from his name, was a Russian rock singer. Pissed off at the audience one night, he electrocuted himself onstage. Zia hears from a recent arrival from the Other Side that Desiree killed herself, too.
Assuming she must be on This Side somewhere, he persuades Eugene to drive around looking for her, which begins them on a journey like the ones people are always making in Dead Teenager Movies, the ones with gas stations run by Toothless Doom-Mongers. They acquire a hitchhiker named Mikal Shannyn Sossamon , who believes she got a raw deal. Along the road to nowhere, they come across a sort of outcast commune. It is run by just the man for the job, Tom Waits, although my vote would have gone to Keith Richards. And they find Desiree, but how much of the story do you need to know, anyway?
This idea of an afterlife for suicides is intriguing. They thought they were ending their misery, and it was just beginning. Zia gets a job at a place called Kamikaze Pizza, which only scratches the surface of the possible jokes. But don't get the wrong idea: The movie isn't laugh out loud funny, under the circumstances, but it is bittersweet and wistfully amusing; the actors enjoy lachrymosity.
We witness the birth of a new genre, the Post-Slasher Movie. PG min Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy. The motto of Second City is "Something Wonderful Right Away," and maybe Terry Gilliam has the words displayed on his mirror when he shaves every morning. He has never faltered. That they may seem extravagant and overheated, all smoke and mirrors, is, after all, in their very nature.
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The story in Gilliam's fevered film is all over the map, as usual, but this time there's a reason. His wild inventions in character, costumes and CGI effects are accounted for by a plot that requires revolving worlds. Elements of this plot were made necessary by the death of Heath Ledger halfway into the filming, but the plot itself I think was in place from the first. It involves a bizarre, threadbare traveling show that unfolds out of a rickety old wagon in rundown pockets of London occupied mostly by drunks and grotesques.
The show consists of the very, very old Parnassus Christopher Plummer perching ominously on a stool while his barker, Anton Andrew Garfield ; his daughter, Valentina Lily Cole , and his angry dwarf, Percy Verne Troyer , perform for an unruly handful of lager louts. Percy and Anton save the life of a man hanging from a bridge. Why only they can perform this task is wisely not explained. The man on the rope is Tony Heath Ledger. He joins the show, is appalled by its archaic form and suggests updates.
The reason it's creaky is that Parnassus is many centuries old, having made a pact with Satan Tom Waits, as usual to live forever on condition that Satan can possess Valentina Lily Cole when she turns You have to admit Parnassus didn't rush into reproduction. Of course he wants out of the deal. Satan frequently runs into credit payment risks. In these worlds, anything goes, which is always to Gilliam's liking.
CGI allows the director and his designers to run riot, which they do at a gallop, and some wondrous visions materialize. I believe Ledger was intended to be the guide through all of these realms. Depp looks the most like Ledger, but it's a melancholy fact that Farrell steals the role. My problem with Gilliam's films is that they lack a discernible storyline. I don't require A-B-C, Act , but I do rather appreciate having some notion of a film's own rules.
Gilliam indeed practices "Something Wonderful Right Away," and you get the notion that if an idea pops into his head, he feels free to write it into his script under the Cole Porter Rule "Anything Goes". Knowing my history with Gilliam, who I always want to like more than I do, I attended the Cannes screening of "Doctor Parnassus" to be baffled, which I was, and then the Chicago press screening, where I had an idea what was coming and tried to reopen my mind.
Gilliam is, you understand, a nice man, and has never committed the sin of failing to amaze. Now what I see are a group of experienced actors gamely trying to keep their heads while all about are losing theirs. Can it be easy to play one-third of a guide to one-third of an arbitrary world? You just have to plunge in. Ledger himself, who makes Tony relatively grounded in the "real" world, must have been prepared to do the same and would have lent the story more continuity.
Still, this is an Imaginarium indeed. The best approach is to sit there and let it happen to you; see it in the moment and not with long-term memory, which seems to be what Parnassus does. It keeps his mind off Satan's plans for his daughter. R min Action, Adventure, Drama.
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. Albert Hughes , Allen Hughes Stars: Here is a very strange film from the Hughes brothers, once the pioneers of the modern African-American thriller with Menace II Society and Dead Presidents, but who seriously blotted their copybook with an uncomprehending adaptation of Alan Moore's Ripper fantasy From Hell.
It could easily be a companion-piece to The Road, to which it bears a superficial resemblance - it takes place in a similarly conceived post-apocalyptic America, deserted and desolate, with marauding gangs of cannibals and killers comprising the remaining population. Through this trudges Denzel Washington - like Viggo Mortensen in The Road - on an epic journey towards the coast; but where Mortensen's primary motivation was to save his son, Washington's plans are considerably more opaque.
He eventually finds his way to an ad-hoc frontier outpost under the sway of sneering Gary Oldman, who is frantically searching for a book he appears to believe is a weapon of awesome power. Washington is carrying such a book, and while the film affects to offer some suspense over its identity, only the most ingenuous will fail to work it out in first few minutes. It's big, covered in leather, big cross on the front Sadly - and I don't think this is giving too much away - screeching heavenly hordes fail to make an appearance.
It's at this point that the film metamorphises into a po-faced religious tract, interspersing elaborate action scenes with long-winded sermons about faith. Light relief is provided by a truly remarkable scene featuring Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour - of all people - as an eccentric couple of well-armed elderly survivors. Despite the impressively atmospheric opening sequences the Hugheses allow their film to lurch into inspirational-literature territory - and it ends up dissipating the brooding, cryptic atmosphere of its opening scenes.
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Copy from this list Export Report this list. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Yes sir, this book reminded me of that great old card game my big brother used to pull on me when we were kid Dear Mr. Yes sir, this book reminded me of that great old card game my big brother used to pull on me when we were kids. He would drop and scatter a deck of cards and I got to pick them up and make them neat again. You wrote Follow You Home in the manner of 52 pickup in slow motion. You teased us for half the book sloooowly scattering about those many curious pieces of the story, frightening us in the process with your trademark unrelenting suspense.
God, my fingernails are a mess from chewing them to pieces. You are getting the bill for the manicure, Mr. With each of your little chapters you sprung more and more stuff on me and my very smart book buddy. It got to the point where I was totally stumped and honestly could see no way for you to emerge looking brilliant as there was clearly no way for this story to work out in the end. What a mess of a situation for poor Daniel and Laura. It made the Magpie people look like simple whiners.
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Well, then in the second half you started to tease us mercilessly with little clues and little twisties one after another, and still no light bulbs in my head. I hate when you do that, Mr. You made me feel utterly stupid! I signed up for Brain HQ while reading this book. As the info bites and surprises continued, on and on and on, I finally started thinking, hey, perhaps there is a way for Mr. Edwards to salvage some sort of believable ending to this tale. For purposes of full disclosure I must admit I changed my mind about a dozen times, but finally got real comfy in my take of the situation.
Then you blew it all up in my face!!! Are you kidding me??? I nearly screamed with delight in how you got me again! But, by golly, I was badly duped. How can you sleep at night knowing you do that to your readers? I do get to throw this at you: The good news though is that I forgive you as you entertained me. I love you, Mr. Now go back into your little office and get to work, you! View all 41 comments. Aug 23, Jennifer rated it it was ok.
Extremely unbelievable plot, way beyond the believability associated with any decent fiction, which hindered my ability to care even a little about any of the silly characters. I won't summarize the story -- tons of reviewers have already done that. Just know that this book starts on a high note and then makes a slow, aggravating decline encouraged by a ridiculous secret and a cast of equally ridiculous characters.
This book will help you sharpen your skimming skills. View all 6 comments. What starts as the perfect European trip for Laura and Daniel, become derailed in Romania after having their passports and credit cards stolen, they are thrown off the train by the Romanian police. Thrown off with them is Aline, a young Romanian woman they met on the train, traveling with her friend Ion. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, with no papers, Aline goes missing in the woods after entering them to empty her bladder in privacy. Trying to find Aline th 3.
Trying to find Aline they come upon a house in the woods, and what they see in this house will cause them to flee and vow to never speak of the atrocities within. For the first half of the book the reader has no idea what Laura and Daniel saw. Strange things start happening to them, and I was thinking horror book, maybe vampires, werewolves. This turns into a wild ride as Laura and Daniel, must confront the evil that followed them home. Never imagines all this entailed nor what length someone will go to keep these things secret.
What they saw is key but not the only thing that followed them home. A good, suspense filled story. Daniel is a very likable character and as a reader I didn't want anything bad to happen to him. Strange and creepy and I will make sure I am not alone if I go into the woods.
View all 11 comments. What happens next, as their nightmare "The evil from that house Must read more from Mark Edwards View all 22 comments. Another knock-out read from an author who truly knows how to keep a reader on their toes! This can actually be problematic, as often times I am able to anticipate where a story is going, or figure out who the main antagonist is well before the big reveal. But once again, Mark Edwards was able to lead me and my favorite book buddy Chris down many detours and dead ends, keepin Another knock-out read from an author who truly knows how to keep a reader on their toes!
But once again, Mark Edwards was able to lead me and my favorite book buddy Chris down many detours and dead ends, keeping us guessing up until the last few chapters! Here I am, decompressing now that all the loose ends have been cleaned up and I am completely satisfied like I've just eaten my favorite meal. Completely and utterly fantastic! True to his other novel that I read and loved for the very same reasons as above The Magpies this story was spun from a real life experience he shared with an ex-girlfriend.
Traveling by train to various locations throughout the country with nothing but your passport, a map and a backpack. That's the picture Edwards paints, up until a decision to save money and NOT get a sleeper car on a late night train turns one couple's adventure into a nightmare. What slowly unfolds is a plot full of twists and turns that will keep you utterly confused and paranoid of every character until Edwards decides to let you in on what went down that night. This is brilliant storytelling at it's best! I do think that experiencing this with a buddy truly heightened the thrill of the ride, but don't worry-you will still get a lot of enjoyment and entertainment reading this solo.
And don't beat yourself up too much at the end when you realize the clues were right there in front of you the whole time While some aspects of the plot did come across as a stretch, Edwards still somehow manages to make it all work and feel like it just could happen that way. Moral of the story-when planning a trip like this, make sure to spend the money for a sleeper car. If you haven't read any of Edwards books yet, you can get a free copy of Guardian Angel to sample a short story by signing up for email updates from him.
Just go to his Goodreads page and you will find the link where you can sign up. View all 25 comments. I shirked my responsibilities today to read almost half of this on my rainy muggy boxing day. I think my clan expect it. So glad to have come across Mark Edwards and now cannot wait for The Magpies which has been on my radar far longer than this one has.
Actually, my local reading community are in for a treat as I requested this one be added to my library catalogue and they obliged. Absolute bum on the edge of my seat material, I was physically 4. I love book anxiety! One very nice addition was the authors note at the end explaining how he came to write this one, I have a feeling this author is a great communicator and loves to share his experience with his readers. Lovers of a good thriller will be enraptured with this, and I absolutely recommend it for this reason.
Oct 05, Kelly and the Book Boar rated it really liked it Shelves: Find all of my reviews at: You go Glen Coco Goodreads!
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Between the cover art, title, blurb and the fact the weather forecast was calling for cloudy with a chance of meatballs I was ready to dig in to a nice scary story. You got me good. Because of the aforementioned bait and switch things could have went really notsagreat.
Surprisingly, I ended up quite enjoying this. Alright, so the story is that Daniel and Laura are thinking about settling down and having children. While traveling through Romania a poorly timed nap in an unlatched sleeping car lead to Daniel and Laura waking up to discover their passports have been stolen. A woman who the couple met briefly attempts to intervene and explain the situation to the authorities, but unfortunately that only leaves all three of them kicked off the train in the middle of the night.
And that is only the beginning of a tale the two will never forget when they discover a house in the middle of the forest. And before my frenemy chimes in, of course the plot contained moments that had me saying. The only thing Ron 2. Backpacking in Europe, a last hurrah before returning to London and settling into married life, jobs and babies, Daniel and Laura board a night train in Romania bound for Sighisoara. Upon discovering their passports, train tickets, and money have been stolen from their backpacks, they are unceremoniously thrown off the train in the middle of nowhere.
A nightmare of gargantuan proportions is about to commence. What Daniel and Laura experience will follow them home and affect their relationship an Backpacking in Europe, a last hurrah before returning to London and settling into married life, jobs and babies, Daniel and Laura board a night train in Romania bound for Sighisoara. What Daniel and Laura experience will follow them home and affect their relationship and the lives of those around them.
An old man, a monster. A dark forest, an old house with a 'rotten ambiance'. Straying off the beaten path is not always what it is cracked up to be. I thought the ending was terrific and fitting. For the sake of all that is holy, next time buy the sleeper tickets! View all 13 comments. Aug 04, Babydoll rated it did not like it. This was almost a DNF but I had to know what was the big bad thing that happened to Laura and Daniel that they swore to never tell. It takes over half the book to find out and it's disappointing. I skimmed the last half to see how it all plays out.
At this point I still didn't know if I was reading a story about horror, the supernatural, or a crime thriller. The writing is amateurish, the plot implausible, and the characters aren't likeable. View all 7 comments. The more I read of this mans work the more I love it. This author is one outstanding thriller story teller. From the very start to the very end you are so engrossed in the story that my house roof could cave in and I'd be annoyed its interrupted my read.
I kid you not. We have this couple who are travelling around before they settled down, marry and have children. The thing is, they unknowingly get caught up in something that is a double dealing. They don't know it though. I'm chatting like a The more I read of this mans work the more I love it. I'm chatting like a mad woman to my Kindle "how did that happen? My nose was firmly stuck inside this absolutely well laid out book. I don't have the best of long finger nails at the best of times, but I need to tell you this When the couple were approaching a house in the woods [not giving anything away here other than how it made me feel] I was so tense even my bum cheeks tensed up.
Creeping up over the stairs, I didn't realize I was holding my breath. Mark Edwards always leaves a little bit at the back of his book [which I LOVE] telling us what inspired him to write the story. I really enjoy that bit because I often wonder how on earth an author comes up with such brilliant pieces of craftmanship that keeps us readers begging for more All of this applies to this wonderfully nail biting, gasping enthralling piece of work. View all 16 comments. Laura and Daniel are on the trip of a lifetime around Europe, supposedly their last blow-out before they settle down and start a family.
But the trip ends abruptly and disastrously in Romania, an ending that we only see the build up to at first, with the complete story gradually being told to us in teasing little snippets throughout the read. Three months after their return to London, and their relationship is in tatters. But what exactly happened?
What evil happened so traumatised them that Dani Laura and Daniel are on the trip of a lifetime around Europe, supposedly their last blow-out before they settle down and start a family. What evil happened so traumatised them that Daniel is in therapy and Laura has left him, a shadow of the girl she was at the start of the book. They have made a vow never to discuss it, to themselves or anyone and it is a vow that they seem determined to keep.
It is a story stuffed full of drama, danger, secrets and lies. There are characters who are creepy and sinister and you never really know just who can be trusted.
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As strange things start to happen to Daniel and Laura in London, you quickly realise that there may just be a link to what happened to them in Romania, and you really are just waiting for the penny to drop with Daniel and Laura to see what they will do. As their story starts to unfold you start to get an inkling of what happened and, believe me, my imagination was working overtime but every time I thought I had it sussed, the story twisted in a very complex and detailed plot that is at times quite audacious and ambitious.
Now, I absolutely loved the story and heartily recommend it, but I do have serious doubts about their reasons for keeping their secret. Many thanks to the publisher for the review copy. View all 8 comments. Dec 07, Gary rated it really liked it. Mark Edwards is an author I have only started reading this year but I am yet to be disappointed with any of his novels. I find his books gripping from the start and instantly engaging making them very difficult to put down.
The books I have read by him are full of surprises with lots of twists and turns that keep you reading to find out more. She wrote just one strikingly innovative novel, Wuthering Heights, but was also a gifted and intense poet. Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses.
It is a novel only Anne Rice could write. It recounts the diabolical decline of Ambrosio, a Capuchin superior, who succumbs first to temptations offered by a young girl who has entered his monastery disguised as a boy, and continues his descent with increasingly depraved acts of sorcery, murder, incest and torture. Combining sensationalism with acute psychological insight, this masterpiece of Gothic fiction is a powerful exploration of how violent and erotic impulses can break through the barriers of social and moral restraint. Its supernatural appeal has spawned a host of film and stage adaptations, and more than a century after its initial publication, it continues to hold readers spellbound.
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