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«When we manually looked into the accounts, we noticed that [their tweets were] just random quotations from Star Wars novels,» says Zhou.

By 2006, when Max Brooks published his novel «World War Z» (from which the movie is very loosely adapted), the worst has already happened: the zombies have been vanquished, but only after destroying a good bit of the world's population.

When his films weren't moneymakers they were huge prestige successes, and most of them courted «dangerous» subject matter — war crimes, the nuclear stalemate, a novel deemed un-filmable.

Tom Cruise stars in an adaptation of Kosinski's own graphic novel, set in the year 2073 when Earth is mostly abandoned after being devastated by war.

When Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligeWhen Jason Matthews's best - selling spy thriller novel Red Sparrow debuted in 2013, the CIA gave it a glowing review in an official statement, toasting the former agent - turned - author's ability to convey accurately the stomach - churning tension a spy feels when covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligewhen covering tracks to protect sources and win the war of intelligence.

«Every legend starts with a true story and when I read the script based on the graphic novel «Hercules: The Thracian Wars,» what blew me away is that it was so grounded in a reality you could feel.

(In Spanish with subtitles) Tomorrow, When the War Began (R for violence) Screen adaptation of John Marsden's novel of the same name about seven Australian teenagers who band together to survive when they return from a weeklong camping trip in the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile natWhen the War Began (R for violence) Screen adaptation of John Marsden's novel of the same name about seven Australian teenagers who band together to survive when they return from a weeklong camping trip in the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile natwhen they return from a weeklong camping trip in the bush to find the country invaded by a hostile nation.

Based on the best - selling novel of the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Thandie Newton (The Pursuit of Happyness) as an upper class couple whose marriage is put to the test when Nigeria breaks into the crippling 1967 civil war that births the short - lived republic of Biafra.

The film is based on J.G. Ballard's acclaimed 1975 novel of the same name: «When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on «enemy» floors.»

What Moby - Dick, my favorite work of art in any medium, meant to the scornful audiences who ignored it in 1851 is not the same as what it meant a full century later, in the midst of the Cold War, which is when that novel finally started to make sense to the culture at large.

Ewan McGregor's directorial debut is a disappointing take on Phillip Roth's Pulitzer - winning 1997 novel about a family man (McGregor) who finds his life spiralling out of control when his 16 year old daughter (Dakota Fanning) rebels by committing a terrorist act during the Vietnam War.

From its opening sentence («We rode the hillsides and vales of Missouri, hiding in uniforms of Yankee blue») Woodrell's novel lures the reader into the first - person narration of a young Dutch Southerner destined to become the sort of «hardened youth» whose experience of war and death («we made trash of men and places») is such that when he comes upon two human heads sitting «ripe and pecked» on a pole, he simply notes that one year earlier this sight would have sickened him «beyond consolation».

Now in postproduction, it stars, uh, Mel Gibson as an ex-con trying to protect his estranged daughter (Erin Moriarty) from drug dealers (in New Mexico again) and co-stars William H. Macy, Diego Luna, and Michael Parks... Ewan McGregor and Mandy Patinkin will star in Phillip Noyce's adaptation of Philip Roth's 1997 novel American Pastoral in which a Jewish - American businessman's world is upended when Vietnam War activist daughter carries out a terrorist act... Meryl Streep will play opera diva Maria Callas in a new HBO movie...

The film, an adaptation of the novel by Philip Roth, follows the story of Seymour «Swede» Levov (McGregor), a successful businessman who is living a normal life with his former beauty queen wife Dawn (Connelly) and daughter Meredith, but their lives change dramatically when their daughter commits an act of terrorism in protest of the Vietnam war.

The Enemy Below (Kino Classics, Blu - ray), a World War II submarine drama based on the novel of the same name by Commander D. A. Rayner, stars Robert Mitchum as Captain Murrell, the newly - appointed commander of an American Destroyer in the South Atlantic, and German star Curd Jürgens making his American film debut as Commander Von Stolberg, a German submarine commander whose mission is imperiled when the American warship gives chase.

Once, when observing a group of intermediate students discussing a novel set during the Revolutionary War, Noe was challenged by the teacher to pick out the one student in the group who was a struggling reader who spent time with the resource teacher.

She is also an unabashed Star Wars geek and comic book enthusiast who fell into romance novels when a writing contest prompt turned a 1000 - word romantic story into a full - blown novel.

Based on a true story of a small Jewish child who hid to survive the Nazi occupation of Holland — and didn't know his parents when they came to get him after the war — this spare, beautiful novel is a dramatic way to introduce middle - schoolers to Holocaust history.

Glen David Gold, author of the best seller Carter Beats the Devil, now gives us a grand entertainment with the brilliantly realized figure of Charlie Chaplin at its center: a novel at once cinematic and intimate, heartrending and darkly comic, that captures the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

A novel with Charlie Chaplin at its center, capturing the moment when American capitalism, a world at war, and the emerging mecca of Hollywood intersect to spawn an enduring culture of celebrity.

Klaussmann's novel follows two cousins — practically sisters, really — from the struggles of their early married days close to the end of World War II through the to the years when their children become adults with demented issues of their own.

When Rachel Kushner sat down to write her second novel, she had three images taped to the wall above her desk: A pretty young blonde woman, face painted for war, with an X of tape across her lips, which eventually became the cover image; a well - heeled engineer standing with his creation, a 1971 Ducati motorcycle; and two men racing by in a primitive cycle and sidecar, circa World War I.Thewar, with an X of tape across her lips, which eventually became the cover image; a well - heeled engineer standing with his creation, a 1971 Ducati motorcycle; and two men racing by in a primitive cycle and sidecar, circa World War I.TheWar I.The...

Also check out this interview with Adam from his previous release of his novella Project Exibluar, and this post on publishing your kid's work from when he released his novel Undercover War.

The whole novel turns on a moment in one of his history classes when D'aron mentions that his home town stages a Civil War reenactment every year during its Pride Week Patriot Days Festival.

He got started as a writer of books when he won a contract to write a biography of John le Carré; but le Carré said the book could not be published until his death, so Harris started roughing out a novel exploring what would have happened if the Nazis had won the war.

A fictional retelling of the notorious Rosenberg spy case, the novel deftly evokes the complex anxieties of Cold War America, shuttling back and forth in time from the 1950s, when Paul and Roselle Isaacson are convicted and electrocuted, to the late 1960s, when their troubled son, Daniel, a grad student at Columbia, must deal with the consequences of his unusual birthright.

When Getty and Khattak begin to suspect that Drayton was in fact a wanted war criminal linked to atrocities in the former Yugoslavia, the novel grows both darker and more engaging.

The novel is set in 1985, when England has been at war with Russia over Crimea for some 130 years, time travel is not uncommon and Wales has seceded from UK and is a Republic.

In his early Cold War novels, John le Carré referred to something called «Moscow Rules»: the tradecraft used by spies in a hostile city when they had to be super-cautious to avoid getting caught.

Readers who experience a quiet thrill upon discovering an exciting new novel are likely to encounter that sensation when they read Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo's second work of fiction (and her American debut), a fast - paced story of war refugees, militants and others fleeing conflict in modern - day Nigeria.

If we must make comparison to Le Carré, and when reviewing spy novels it seems de rigueur to do so, it would not be to the early Smiley novels but to Le Carré's more recent works such as Absolute Friends, set in the post Cold - War period when the lines between state - sponsored and private sector intelligence have blurred.

Lucy's parents may also have suffered from PTSD — her father as a result of service in World War II, and her mother from her own abusive family background, suggested in Strout's previous novel, My Name is Lucy Barton, when Lucy's mother can not touch her own daughter and explains that growing up she never slept but only catnapped.

Then the military paperback novel reprints taken to the war by the GIs caught on when they came home and mass market paperback books grew in popularity because they were cheap, usually just a quarter.

The famously hazy interzone between fiction for adults and fiction for youths totally inverts, evaporates, resubstantiates, and turns into a four - dimensional labyrinth when we consider a novel such as Paolo Bacigalupi's Tool of War.

Eventually, when I have a third Usurper's War novel, Acts of War will follow as a permafree as well.

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Some of my novels include my own experiences during the 39/45 war when I served in the RAF in the Far Eastern theatre including a tough time in Java.

New Adult: Mrs. Lieutenant: A Novel By Phyllis Zimbler Miller Just married 21 - year - old Sharon Gold must learn to survive in the alien world of the U.S. Army during the unpopular Vietnam War when her husband goes on active duty in the spring of 1970.

So yeah, I hope you look forward to that, and also hope you're a sensible Star Wars fan who can accept the franchise as the children's science - fantasy series that it is, and don't try to hack a new Star Wars movie's metascore because it undoes those crappy expanded universe novels from way back when.

Bad Apple Wars is one of those visual novels that we were not completely sure about what the story was going to be when starting it up for the first time.

While our younger audience probably fails to appreciate why Sakura Wars» strategy RPG gameplay paired with visual - novel style focus on relationships was so shocking to gamers on this side of the Pacific back in the nineties, old men like myself (23 years old) remember when both strategy RPGs and dating sims were extremely niche genres, never mind a game containing both.

World War Z became a hit novel when it released and since then the story was adapted loosely into a blockbuster film.

When the radical art collective Ztohoven slyly inserted a digital image of a mushroom cloud into an otherwise ordinary morning weather report on Czech Television's CT2 channel last summer, the response was nothing like that provoked by Orson Welles's 1938 radio play The War of the Worlds, which was based on H. G. Wells's novel about an alien invasion and caused near pandemonium.

Naturally, when Honeycutt discovered The Glass Room, a 2009 novel by Simon Mawer that tells the compelling and tragic tale of a Modern house built in Czechoslovakia before World War II, she was drawn to the story, and she decided to use it as the basis for this exhibition.

When the reclusive American janitor Henry Darger died in 1973, he left behind an unprecedented body of drawings, scroll - like watercolors and a 15,000 page novel called The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What Is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco - Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion.