by The Reader on November 30, 2011
Sinister villains often make good books – after all, it is frequently in the defeat of such adversaries that heroes prove heroic. For this reason, one could make a Top 10 Heroes List that closely mirrors that of the villains – and wind up including Pip, Hamlet, Charles Darnay and Uncle Tom among others. A [...]
by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on August 18, 2008
Wilkie Collins may have penned this thriller long ago in 1868, but I have to say just like most thrillers when it winds up, it winds up! The novel actually starts out pretty strong and intriguing, the premise helping immensely that a mysterious, very large diamond (not an actual moonstone) is given to a young [...]
by Derwood Hunsdale-Talbot on August 12, 2008
When I was first introduced to Jane Austen, I was excited. Finally I get to see what all the fuss was about. Why Emma Thompson is obsessed with making films of her novels and why Saturday Night Live took such glee is parodying them.