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Better than ‘Twilight’: 5 Underrated Young Adult Movie Adaptations
Like it or not, the “young adult” genre is here to stay… at least until Hollywood discovers a new way of making tons of money with five installments of the same story. This breed of movies seems to be at its peak right now. This year alone we have six YA adaptations hitting the big screen, starting with Stephenie Meyer‘s The Host (which opens in theaters today). The sci-fi/romantic movie will probably be another goldmine, which will in turn produce a sequel and tons of screaming fans. Still, there are some YA movie adaptations that haven’t gotten their due. Here are five underdog movies from an overrated genre. 5. Youth In Revolt is an original, wonderfully dark and underrated comedy that features Michael Cera in two very cool dual roles. 4. Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie are the leads in Girl, Interrupted, a film where 90% of its cast is female. 3. The Perks of Being A Wallflower was loved by critics and audiences, but it still hasn’t really received the recognition it deserves. 2.
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You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend. –Paul Sweeney What’s the last book that moved you? That made you laugh or cry or completely reconsider your thoughts on life or love? 1. Haunted by the death of his brother and the suicide of his mother, Ben continues to slip deeper into the darkness of his own mind. 2. In The Lost Girls, readers go an adventure around the world with Jennifer, Holly, and Amanda as the three best friends decide to ditch their careers and lives back home for a crazy journey around four continents. 3. The title explains it all, although some might know the book as the PG-friendly title Being Flynn. 4. Marina Keegan was seen as a literary prodigy for her work as both a journalist and playwright at a young age. 5. This is every 20-somethings’ manifesto as Sheila Heti explores all of the life issues we deal with as adults while also wondering if we’re actually adults or just faking it. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Book Country: Discover New Fiction with the Genre Map
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Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books
More than 5,000 of you nominated. More than 60,000 of you voted. And now the results are in. The winners of NPR's Top 100 Science-Fiction and Fantasy survey are an intriguing mix of classic and contemporary titles. Over on NPR's pop culture blog, Monkey See, you can find one fan's thoughts on how the list shaped up, get our experts' take, and have the chance to share your own. A quick word about what's here, and what's not: Our panel of experts reviewed hundreds of the most popular nominations and tossed out those that didn't fit the survey's criteria (after — we assure you — much passionate, thoughtful, gleefully nerdy discussion). So, at last, here are your favorite science-fiction and fantasy novels. 1.
5 e-Book Collections with Over 100,000 Free e-Books
Now that we have so many devices that enable us to read e-Books with ease, even those who were initially skeptical have now jumped on the e-Book bandwagon. Whether you have an iPhone, Kindle, Nook, or smartphone — or you’re a student at a college offering free laptops and iPads — you will find free e-Books which are compatible with your device on these websites. Here are 5 e-Book collections which contain over 100,000 free e-Books: BookRix Over 95,000 new books written by the community’s 371,000 members are available on BookRix for free. They also offer foreign language and audiobooks.ManyBooks.net Over 29,000 free eBooks are available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders on Manybooks.net. Thousands of free titles are available at Mobipocket in the genres of English, American, and Germanic Literature, Romance and Children’s Lit, and non-fiction genres such as World History. and of course… And if these still aren’t enough, check out these posts for even more e-Books!
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There are books that change your entire mindset and shift your perception into a hole new paradigm. These books inspire you to read more and to pursue more enlightenment. Exactly what WhytoRead is all about. The books on this list will do just that. Blow your mind and put it back together in a whole new way. 10 Mind Blowing Books 1. The most intriguing part of this book is the true story of a man who fakes insanity to get off on an assault charge, but ends up spending many years locked up in a mental health facility. He tries to prove his sanity, but no one believes him. 2. An excerpt from the book should tell you why this book is mind blowing: In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” “Everything must have a purpose?” “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
25 Free Sites for Reading Books Online
Do you love to read but hate to walk or drive or rise from a prone position on your hammock? Well, if you have Internet access, you don’t have to! (Granted, if you only have a desktop computer, you’ll probably have to sit up.) With these 25 great sites, you have access to tens of thousands of books, plays, essays, poems and other written works in electronic form anytime for free! With the scanned documents, you can even enjoy the illustrations and the visual look and feel of the often historic works. Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts: Collects several thousand texts, mostly from Project Gutenberg (see below). Bartleby.com: Several hundred titles, featuring iconic texts like the Bible, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations and Gray’s Anatomy. Bibliomania: Over 5,000 books, poems, articles, short stories and plays. Bored.com: More than 10,000 e-books divided into a variety of subjects. Classic Reader: As the name suggests, this site has over 3,000 classic works in e-book format.
Free Philip K. Dick: Download 11 Great Science Fiction Stories
Although he died when he was only 53 years old, Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982) published 44 novels and 121 short stories during his lifetime and solidified his position as arguably the most literary of science fiction writers. His novel Ubik appears on TIME magazine’s list of the 100 best English-language novels, and Dick is the only science fiction writer to get honored in the prestigious Library of America series, a kind of pantheon of American literature. If you’re not intimately familiar with his novels, then you assuredly know major films based on Dick’s work – Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darklyand Minority Report. Today, we bring you another way to get acquainted with his writing. eTexts (find download instructions here) Audio "Beyond Lies the Wub" – Free MP3"Beyond the Door" - Free MP3"Second Variety" – Free MP3 Zip File - Stream Online"The Defenders" - Free MP3"The Gun" - YouTube"The Variable Man" – Free MP3 Zip File - Stream Online P.S. Related Content: Philip K.
