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Dan Brown: The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown is a controversial American author of thriller fiction, who is best known for his runaway bestsellers The Da Vinci Code (2003) and Angels and Demons (2000). His novels share his signature mix of scholarly puzzles, international intrigue, secret societies, and fast-paced action. He has interests in codes, cryptography, and keys, a recurring theme in his novels. Early life and educationBro... [Read More]
Danielle Steel: Drama Novels
The American novelist Danielle Fernande Dominique Schuelein-Steel, an author of several dramas and romantic books, is acclaimed for her drama novels which has sold over 500 million copies worldwide as of 2005. Most of her books were included in the New York Times Bestseller list. They remained there for about 390 consecutive weeks and more than 20 of them were adapted for television. Early Life an... [Read More]
Ahmed Salman Rushdie: Life and Work
Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a noted Indian-British novelist and essayist who was (and still is) a target of assassination plots after his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), greatly offended the Islamic world. His work has touches of magic realism and historical fiction, with postcolonialism as their overriding theme. Rushdie focuses on the disruptions, connections, and migrations between ... [Read More]
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase is the third novel written by Haruki Murakami and is said to be the last of "The Rat Trilogy". The book, narrated in a first person point-of-view, is somewhat a detective story, which entirely revolves around the misadventures of a nameless main character. The novel began with the main character, who works in an advertising firm, divorcing his wife. However, months aft... [Read More]
Stephen King: Horror and Fantasy
Stephen Edwin King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his parents separated when Stephen was a toddler, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother bro... [Read More]
The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King
Some simply know him as the King of Horror, a household name in the genre of the dark and terrifying. Yet, Stephen King has become much more then that, he is now being compared to the likes of Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and other legends of great literature and rightfully so. He is one of the greatest writers of this generation and only time will tell his full impact upon the field of classic lit... [Read More]
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Horror Writer
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He was of predominantly of British stock on both sides of his family, consumed by eccentricity. His mother keep his son from contact with the outside world. She treated him like a girl, and made him wear his hair long until the age of six. Lovecraft's father, named after the hero Winfield Scott, was a traveling salesman, who went mad,... [Read More]
The Evolution of The Vampire Story
The suave and biting Count Dracula did not just magically appear fully formed in Bram Stoker's imagination. The myth of the vampire has been around for as long as man had the need to place his fears into a concrete image. The first Vampire was Lilith, also the first wife of Adam that she eventually left for Lucifer. In short, the bone of the quarrel was that Lilith would prefer to stand over Adam ... [Read More]
Supernatural Fiction: Source of Fascination
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strangest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”, wrote H.P Lovecraft in his seminal work about the genre in his “Supernatural Horror in Literature”. The supernatural has long been a source of fascination for mankind and it is only recently that it has been accepted, however reluctantly as a serious lite... [Read More]
Isaac Asimov: The Future of Humanity
One of the most common impressions of Asimov's fiction work is that his writing style is extremely unornamental. In 1980, SF scholar James Gunn wrote of I, Robot that: Except for two stories—"Liar!" and "Evidence"—they are not stories in which character plays a significant part. Virtually all plot develops in conversation with little if any action. Nor is there a gr... [Read More]