Meeting you was incredible, and you were kind enough to not only sign a copy for myself, but also for my best friend at the time. I used that bag every day until the straps fell apart. Even now, I admire the tote bag - complete with a dragon drawn by your husband - given to everyone in the huge queue of people you gave up your time to meet. I was a lot younger than Claire at the time, but diving into her world captivated me for hours.īy 2012, I was a huge fan, and had the good fortune to meet you in person during your Black Dawn UK tour. From page one, I was hooked, and probably read the first nine books back-to-back. I first discovered you around 2010 when I saw the first few Morganville books in an offer I couldn’t refuse.
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"X marks the spot in a lot of ways for Elon Musk," said Tim Higgins, a Wall Street Journal reporter and the author of Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century. In 2017, Musk repurchased the url "X.com" from PayPal, tweeting that the domain "has great sentimental value." "Everyone tried to talk him out of naming the company that back then because of the sexual innuendos, but he really liked it and stuck with it," said Vance. But the billionaire hasn't given much explanation as to what it means.ĭays earlier, a filing in a federal court case in California confirmed Twitter had been folded into X Corp.Īccording to biographers, the letter X frames where Musk's ambitions are headed, while paying homage to Musk's entrepreneurial start.Īccording to Ashlee Vance, the author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Musk's obsession with the letter X began with one of the billionaire's earliest ventures, X.com, which later merged with a competitor to become PayPal. Musk has tacked the letter X onto his business ventures and more. Musk had teased the announcement a day earlier, tweeting: "I've hired a new CEO for X/Twitter. "Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app," he wrote on Friday. Elon Musk tweeted that he'd picked Twitter's next CEO: Linda Yaccarino, who oversaw advertising at NBCUniversal for more than a decade. Many creators have re-imagined Superman's origin story throughout the years. We'd taken a rather risky path with the character of Clark Kent in the book, so to receive both a very strong response in both critical reception and sales was a huge validation that we'd made the right choice. I think we managed to reach a considerable number of folks who had never been able to dial into the character before. What's especially interesting about that is that in the weeks and months since it came out, I heard from a massive number of readers who said that they'd never picked up a Superman comic before, that the character hadn't really interested them previously, but that they bought, and enjoyed, this one. So while I suspected the book would do well, given the elements above, I never expected that it would spend 37 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels. The question then becomes the degree to which it resonates with an audience: do they care about the story and the characters? I knew that the story was as solid as I could make it, the art was great, and our lead character is one of the most recognizable figures in the world, so all of the elements were there. Any time one writes a book of any sort, one hopes for success with it. Were you surprised by the tremendous success of SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE Vol. The brothers have used their million-dollar fortunes to further own self-interest on the political stage. Presumably, the Kochs represent a convergence of all the efforts of the conservative movement, from weaponizing philanthropic efforts, to investing in academia, to buying state legislatures. The Kochs are not the only financiers of the conservative movement, yet they capture the vast majority of Mayer's attention. At every turn, Mayer's investigation led her to Charles and David Koch, referred to in the book and in public jointly as the Koch brothers. Going back almost fifty years, Mayer provides a timeline of the progression of one of the most influential yet most covert movements in American political history. Seasoned reporter and staff writer of The New Yorker Jane Mayer delivers an in-depth, wide-spanning analysis of the rise of outside money in the political arena, specifically on the right, with Dark Money. Anger: Dante and Virgil are threatened by the Furies when they try to enter through the walls of Dis (Satan).This is the first time they pass through a circle without speaking to anyone, a commentary on Dante’s opinion of greed as a higher sin. Dante encounters more ordinary people but also the guardian of the circle, Pluto, the mythological king of the Underworld. This circle is reserved for people who hoarded or squandered their money, but Dante and Virgil do not directly interact with any of its inhabitants. The author Boccaccio took one of these characters, Ciacco, and incorporated him into his 14th-century collection of tales called "The Decameron." Gluttony: Where those who overindulge exist. Dante encounters ordinary people here, not characters from epic poems or gods from mythology. Lust: Self-explanatory. Dante encounters Achilles, Paris, Tristan, Cleopatra, and Dido, among others.Dante encounters Ovid, Homer, Socrates, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, and more here. Limbo: Where those who never knew Christ exist. OL7974923W Page_number_confidence 92.09 Pages 394 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.10 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210405194836 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 660 Scandate 20210329053800 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 0394497503 Tts_version 4. Vidal is learned, funny, and exceptionally clear-sighted. 41 Even the occasionally hostile literary critic, such as Martin Amis, admitted that 'Essays are what he is good at. Urn:lcp:1876novel0000vida:epub:e59230b3-a40a-460d-8fe4-af010b1a7f8c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier 1876novel0000vida Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0wr0g93q Invoice 1652 Isbn 0394497503Ġ394406516 Lccn 75034311 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9616 Ocr_module_version 0.0.12 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1300178 Openlibrary_edition Vidals historical novel 1876 (1976) In the United States, Vidal is often considered an essayist rather than a novelist. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:00:41 Boxid IA40086403 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier But people talk a different language inside. Under any name King mesmerizes the reader (Chicago Sun-Times).I listened to myself. King?s prescient tale of gun violence in American schools prompted him to halt further printings of Rage after Columbine. Only Stephen King, writing as Richard Bachman, can imagine the horror of a good and angry man who fights back against bureaucracy when it threatens to destroy his vitality, home, and memories. Stiff laminate card covers (soft cover) are lightly rubbed and bumped to extremities, head and tail are lightly bumped with small amount of loss, light to moderate spine creasing and rubbing along the vertical of both wraps, handful of very tiny chips to the front wrap titles and illustration unaffected, with a light crease to the bottom corner of the rear wrap with very light shelfwear to show. Most of the bleed through is very faint and only noticeable to a handful of pages. Roadworks (called road work or road construction in the United States) occur when part of the road, or in rare cases, the entire road, has to be occupied for. Very light spot of discolouration to the top corner of the top edge (1.5cm) and fore-edge (2cm) which has seeped through to the corners of pp.31 to pp.132. Barely noticeable age toning to page extremities. Interior is in Near Fine condition clean and free of any markings or writing. Like new and is very, very gently read if at all. Stated First Printing, 1977 with number line to one. Lizbeth Rose, our intrepid protagonist, is a gunnie-a hired gun who makes her living with a mercenary team whose jobs frequently involve escorting bands of farmers across the treacherous landscape of what was once the southwestern United States. Maybe it was the weird western vibes or the idea of a modern gunslinging urban fantasy set in a post-collapse alternate world where most of the country and its heroes are wild again, but right away, the premise caught my attention like a fish on a hook. Afterward, I wasn’t so sure about trying another one of her series, but then I heard about Gunnie Rose. This does not affect the contents of my review and all opinions are my own.īefore An Easy Death, my past experience with Charlaine Harris’s work pretty much began and ended with the first Sookie Stackhouse book, and it was swiftly determined that southern vampires just weren’t for me. I received a review copy from the publisher. Book Review: An Easy Death by Charlaine Harris She doesn’t commitor solvemurders in her real life, but her passion for animals is one hundred percent true. 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Annie Knox is the national bestselling author of the Pet Boutique mysteries, including Paws for Murder and Groomed for Murder. Those that embody this quality tend to be greedy, narcissistic and fail miserably at what it is to be human. The 'quiet game' is an analogy to secrets held by people of power who are out of touch with integrity. This being the first Penn Cage novel, Greg introduces the character's back story, which finds him at a loss having lost his wife to cancer. Having finished the trilogy, I have been working my way through all of Greg's stories and have yet to be disappointed.Īs a writer, it's always a joy to see a best selling author evolve. I found Penn Cage, the central character someone I could relate with due to his humanity, selflessness and passion for 'doing the right thing'. Unfamiliar with the author, I found the pace, plot twists and character depth on par with Pulitzer winners and a momentum factor, similar to a rocket launch. I was first introduced to Greg Iles months ago when I stumbled across "Natchez Burning" on the staff picks section at our library. |