Is there a serious lack of good women characters in literature, or I have yet to read more books -- especially ones with great women characters? That is the question--after I have tried to follow my first post on Best Fictional Male Characters with their female counterparts. But, with 2 hours passed and still without …
My Top 5 male fictional book characters
I saw a post like this while surfing the net and I got inspired to think who my favorite characters are ever written in a book. Truth is, I've been racking my brains the whole day trying to come up with my list and going back my collection of books and I can say this …
If you desire it, it will come
Recently, one of my good friends told me about this book called "The Secret" where it encourages the reader to "think positive" in order to achieve life-changing results. I haven't finished yet the whole book (I fell asleep with a highlighter in my hand, good thing that the sheets were saved!) but I can say …
If you have a Death Note
...who'd you write there? I came across this news from Japan Now about a kid in the States who was suspended for bringing a Death Note at school. For the uninformed, a Death Note is a notebook where you write the name, the time and the date, and the manner of death which you wish …
With JD’s death, will Holden finally come to life at the big screen?
So, the question now, with JD Salinger's death, is will "Catcher in the Rye"--his iconic novel on teenage angst and youth alienation--be finally brought to the big screen? Many has tried, but JD's extreme vehemence on seeing his novels interpreted by Hollywood,has made this impossible for almost 50 years. Since I am that kind of …
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Jerome David “JD” Salinger, RIP (1919-2010)
JD Salinger, my voice of reason, died 27 Jan 2010 JD gave me Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of his book, "Catcher in the Rye" which was published in 1951. I first read the book 50 years after its first publication--I was newly out of university, full of zits, repressed hormones and left-over teenage angst. Holden …
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