The Hollywood Spiral

Author : Paul Neilan
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538736661

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The Hollywood Spiral by Paul Neilan Pdf

From the author of Apathy and Other Small Victories, this darkly comic novel set in the near future about the race to find a missing cyber program with the power to bend reality—all before a fast-approaching comet destroys the earth. In the near future, after the internet grinds to a halt amid a wave of cyber-attacks, a company named Zodiac steps in to replace it with an evolved, augmented-reality version called The Grid. Harrigan, a hard-drinking private detective living as off-Grid as possible, is about to be evicted from his apartment when a stranger shows up asking for his help in finding Anna, an escort who he claims he's desperately in love with. Turns out that through Harrigan's new client, Anna has come into possession of a program/entity called Mirror, Mirror, which has the capacity to merge The Grid and reality, bending both to the whims of the program's user. Soon Harrigan finds himself up against the last surviving organized crime gangs in Los Angeles, Zodiac's mercenaries, and a mysterious group called The First Church Multiverse, all of whom are hot on the trail of Mirror, Mirror—if the comet rapidly approaching Earth doesn't kill them all first.

Author : Paul Neilan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429907347

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Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan Pdf

A scathingly funny debut novel about disillusionment, indifference, and one man's desperate fight to assign absolutely no meaning to modern life. The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely appealing deaf assistant to Shane's cosmically unstable dentist. When one of the women is murdered, and Shane is the only suspect who doesn't care enough to act like he didn't do it, the question becomes just how he'll clear the good name he never had and doesn't particularly want: his own. “The malaise of cubicle culture may be well-trodden comedic territory by now, but Neilan's debut skewers office life with a flourish for the grotesque.” —The Village Voice

Author : Joel Shepherd
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Androids
ISBN : 1523981458

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Renegade by Joel Shepherd Pdf

One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy. But during celebrations on humanity's new homeworld, the legendary Captain Pantillo of the battle carrier Phoenix is court-martialed then killed, and his deputy, Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande, the heir to humanity's most powerful industrial family, is framed for his murder. Assisted by Phoenix's marine commander Trace Thakur, Erik and Phoenix are forced to go on the run as they seek to unravel the conspiracy behind their captain's demise, pursued to the death by their own fleet. What they discover about the truth behind the wars and the nature of humanity's ancient alien allies will shake the sentient galaxy to its core.

Author : Guy Westwell
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904764541

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War Cinema by Guy Westwell Pdf

'War Cinema' presents an introduction to and overview of films that take war as their main theme. Framing the era with 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Apocalypse Now Redux', the author initially focuses on Vietnam on film in the 1970s and 1980s and how this divisive war was represented.

Author : Ronald L. Davis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806173528

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Hollywood Beauty by Ronald L. Davis Pdf

At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won international acclaim for Blood and Sand (playing opposite Tyrone Power), Forever Amber, A Letter to Three Wives, and the original version of Unfaithfully Yours. Driven by a stage mother to become rich and Famous, but unable to cope with the career she had longed for as a child, Darnell soon was caught in a downward spiral of drinking, failed marriages, and exploitive relationships. By her early twenties she was an alcoholic, hardened by a life in which beautiful women were chattel, and by the time of her death at age forty- one, she was struggling for recognition in the industry that once had called her its "glory girl.” Hollywood Beauty begins in the Southwest during the Depression, when Pearl Darnell became obsessed by the glitter of the movie world that would dominate her children’s lives. We follow Linda’s path from her Texas childhood and first public success–during the state centennial, in 1936–through her contract work with Twentieth Century-Fox in the heyday of the big-studio system. Film historian Ronald L. Davis documents Darnell’s discovery and marriages, the adoption of her daughter, the marking of many well-known films, and her emotional difficulties, leading up to her tragic death by fire. This is the story of a native teenager from a dysfunctional middle-class family thrust into the golden age of Hollywood. Hollywood Beauty examines America’s public worship of movie stars and superficial success–its motives and consequences–and the addiction to escapism that this worship represents.

Author : Mick LaSalle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781466876040

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Dangerous Men by Mick LaSalle Pdf

Using the same mix of accessibility and insider knowledge he used so successfully in Complicated Women, author and film critic Mick LaSalle now turns his attention to the men of the pre-Code Hollywood era. The five years between 1929 and mid-1934 was a period of loosened censorship that finally ended with the imposition of a harsh Production Code that would, for the next thirty-four years, censor much of the life and honesty out of American movies. Dangerous Men takes a close look at the images of manhood during this pre-Code era, which coincided with an interesting time for men--the culmination of a generation-long transformation in the masculine ideal. By the late twenties, the tumult of a new century had made the nineteenth century's notion of the ideal man seem like a repressed stuffed shirt, a deluded optimist. The smiling, confident hero of just a few years before fell out of favor, and the new heroes who emerged were gangsters, opportunists, sleazy businessmen, shifty lawyers, shell-shocked soldiers--men whose existence threatened the status quo. In this book, LaSalle highlights such household names as James Cagney, Clark Gable, Edward G. Robinson, Maurice Chevalier, Spencer Tracy, and Gary Cooper, along with lesser-known ones such as Richard Barthelmess, Lee Tracy, Robert Montgomery, and the magnificent Warren William. Together they represent a vision of manhood more exuberant and contentious--and more humane--than anything that has followed on the American screen.

Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000078362617

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The Hollywood West by Richard W. Etulain Pdf

Brings into focus the most influential characters and themes of the Hollywood Western.

Author : Brian Williams
Publisher : Chicken House
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781908435248

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Freefall by Brian Williams Pdf

First came Tunnels, then Deeper. Now Will's in Freefall. What will he find when he hits the ground? As Will plummets down a subterranean void, it looks like the end for him. But it's just the beginning of a frightening new adventure in which he must face giant carnivorous spiders and the deadly Brights. And, even worse, two evil twins with a score to settle! But as the dark mysteries of the deep unfold, they not only reveal artifacts from ancient civilisations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth... The terrifying third book in the mega-selling Tunnels series.

Author : Stacey Endres,Robert Cushman
Publisher : Pomegrante Press (CA)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029744805

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Hollywood at Your Feet by Stacey Endres,Robert Cushman Pdf

Built by Sid Grauman in 1927, the most famous motion picture palace in the world towers majestically above the 6900 block of Hollywood Boulevard. The Chinese Theatre's Forecourt of the Stars attracts more than two million visitors annually. Throughout its history and up to the present day, the theatre has served as a magnet to thousands of fans and tourists who flock to the site daily to view the flamboyant architecture and the historic cement squares in the theatre's forecourt. The footprints, handprints, and signatures of 176 of Hollywood's most famous celebrities have been placed here, plus those of three comedy teams, one group of quintuplets, two robots and a villainous sci-fi character, on ventriloqist's dummy, a radio character, and the world's best known duck.

Author : Kirk Scroggs
Publisher : DC Zoom
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781779500007

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The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid by Kirk Scroggs Pdf

Warning! Anyone caught reading this notebook without my permission will be tossed in the bayou with a rabid snapping turtle! Seriously, I mean it! My name is Russell Weinwright and if you think you've got problems in middle school, try being a half kid, half algae swamp creature who's terrible at sports! It's not easy. I eat sunlight for lunch, I've got duck weed for hair, and I think a frog might be living in my tree trunk arm. I'm literally pond scum! Some kids call me Swamp Kid, but my best friends Charlotte and Preston keep me sane. I wish I could let you read this notebook to get the real scoop on being an eighth-grade outsider (please ignore the doodles and ketchup stains!), but things have gotten a little crazy lately. Men in black are spying on me, my science teacher might be an evil mastermind, and a hulking beast in the bayou may or may not be my super swamp mentor. Believe me, you don't wanna know! Turn back now! This is The Secret Spiral of Swamp Kid by writer and illustrator Kirk Scroggs, and you'll never look at middle school the same way again.

Author : Michael Connelly
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759522114

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Void Moon by Michael Connelly Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly writes novels of brilliantly original suspense. In this electrifying tour de force, he takes us into a world of extremes: too much criminality, too much money, and too many ways to die. In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfect heist goes very wrong, and suddenly Cassie is on the run--with a near-psychotic Vegas "fixer" killing everyone who knew about the job. Between Cassie and the man hunting her are a few last secrets: like who really set up the job, why Cassie had to take the change, and how, in the end, it might all be a matter of the moon...

Author : Koji Suzuki
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008121815

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The Complete Ring Trilogy: Ring, Spiral, Loop by Koji Suzuki Pdf

Together for the first time, in ebook form, the stunning, cutting-edge thrillers with a chilling supernatural twist from the Japanese master of suspense. THE RING is the famous novel that spawned the big-budget blockbuster US horror movie of the same name.

Author : Kōji Suzuki
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007179077

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Spiral by Kōji Suzuki Pdf

Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star, the acclaimed author of Ring.Pathologist Ando is at a low point in his life. His small son's death from drowning has resulted in the break-up of his marriage and he is suffering from traumatic recurrent nightmares. Work is his only escape, and his depressing world of loneliness and regret is shaken up when an old rival from medical school, Ryuji Takayama, turns up on his slab ready to be dissected.Through Ryuji's bizarre demise Ando learns of a series of mysterious deaths that seem to have been caused by a sinister virus. From beyond the grave Ryuji appears to be leading Ando towards a suspicious videotape - could this hold the answer to the riddle of the strange deaths? Or is it merely the first clue? When Ando meets Mai, an attractive former student of Ryuji's, his desire to solve the puzzle transcends curiosity and becomes a matter of life or death.Spiral is the stunning sequel to the highly acclaimed Ring, and can also be read as a standalone.

Author : Cheryl Crane,Cliff Jahr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 038070580X

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Detour by Cheryl Crane,Cliff Jahr Pdf

Author : Alexander Ross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666911091

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The Evolution of Hollywood's Calculated Blockbuster Films by Alexander Ross Pdf

The book highlights how creative entrepreneurs saved the Hollywood studios in the 1970's by making the calculated blockbuster, consisting of key replicable markers of success, Hollywood's preeminent business model. Scholars of film studies, screenwriting, and popular culture will find this book of particular interest.