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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Charlotte's Tangled web: Book Review

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Charlotte's Tangled web is that the 1st novel in the Hollingsworth series. This debut novel from L.B. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov may be a page-turner sure enough. This story is moving and has all the right elements. The author very does a decent job with character development. This novel options the long-time relationship of across-the-street neighbors Charlotte (Charlie) and Daniel. we meet them simply before their senior year in highschool and learn how they have been constant companions, friends since the age of 5, though not romantically involved. once Charlotte Ford moves across the street from Daniel Hollingsworth at the age of 5 years, her life can forever be modified. coping with the loss of her mother, a keep Charlotte can grow into a young adult and find her approach underneath the wing of her protecting friend Daniel. Charlotte is dreamy and type. Daniel is hard and sincere.. As Daniel and Charlotte have each grownup up with their lives already sort out for them, they along form Associate in Nursing unbreakable bond, as they overcome unbelievable obstacles. 2 elite athletes, that were born to fulfill the expectations of many, can learn through their journey what's most vital in life. As Charlotte is anticipated to fulfill the dreams of her deceased mother, with hopes to travel on to the olympics, she will question whose dream she resides. Daniel is anticipated to play college soccer even as his brothers, his father and his grandfather have all done. throughout their senior year of highschool, Daniel and Charlotte have realised their relationship has grownup into a yearning love for each other, and they need to fight terribly laborious to be along. Separated by Charlotte's over protecting father World Health Organization is driven by the guilt from the death of his adult female, as well as people that will fight to come back between them, Daniel and Charlotte can see if true love very does conquer all.

Laura Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was born and raised in Chicago Illinois. She attended the University of Nevada urban center, where she ran cross country and track, and received her degree in pedagogy. Laura met her husband Greg in college, and they are raising their 2 kids, Chase and Hannah, in metropolis, Nevada. Laura is presently teaching, coaching job cross country, and excited concerning cathartic her 1st series, The Hollingsworth Series! With a mode echoing St. Nicholas Sparks, "Charlotte's Tangled Web" Pavlov's skillful use of rotating first-person narrators to weave the tale of "Charlotte's Tangled Web" makes these characters turn. Her vivid descriptions and thoughtful character development can help you visualize this combine sitting right in your form in highschool.

Because the author herself was a highschool and college cross-country contestant, running and coaching for races forms a framework for the plot, but this side is not so careful that a reader not interested or knowledgeable are defer. As for the author, Ivan Petrovich Pavlov may be a fantastic author. it is laborious to believe that this is often her 1st novel. I could image the scenes and also the people from the approach she delineate them.

Incidentally, i really like that Ivan Petrovich Pavlov named the highschool coach Miroballi.

There's much more to this story than teenaged relationship and sports. One will especially relish the detail and outline of life during a small intimate city. This story incorporates a good plot and may be the book is addressed  to hit the upper teenage cluster, but I found it to be exceptionally written. as the story open one reveals more and more journey. you may be absorbed in the struggles and conquests of Charlotte, Daniel and their families while reading this true and pure love tale. The webs of deceit from charlotte's daddy are painful for each of them in the story. This story will cause you to trembled with anger, sob, but most importantly cause you to smile. The sports sections of the story do not overpower the tale but add depth to the characters and tie the story along. i really enjoyed following Charlotte and Daniel with their sports achievements and their college choices. It very takes some twists and turns that I did not anticipate.  Moreover, as I scan the story, I modified my perspective as to what I wanted for the characters. Basically, as their lives progressed and as the characters were developed, my hopes for them conjointly modified. but the story can let you say one word “Wow”. However, there is positively enough substance in the story to be picked up as a life moving picture. I hope it is.

The book can keep you reading and you'd not be able to put it down till you end. i couldn't wait to envision what happened in the next chapter. because i used to be sorry to show the last page of this novel, i would like Ivan Petrovich Pavlov to have more to tell readers concerning Charlie and Daniel, their families and friends and their college experiences. This book may be a good scan for all ages.

And I look forward to her stories of other characters and places, too.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

The Lord of the Rings

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J. R. R Tolkien

It was the success of The Hobbit in 1938 that Tolkien was warned from his publishers that public wants to hear more from him about Hobbits. In 1950 Tolkien wrote back to his publisher "My work has escaped from my control, and I have produced a monster . . .
The Lord of the Rings covers a number of themes related to theology like the battle between good and evil, death and immortality, resurrection, salvation, repentance, self-sacrifice, the victory of humility over pride, justice, fellowship and authority. The plot for The Lord of the Rings began from Tolkien’s earlier work The Hobbit and from The Silmarillion.

Adaptation                                                        

The Lord of the Rings has been adapted to different mediums like film, television, stage, Video Games. Thus these various adaptations have attracted a large number of audiences towards The Lord of the Rings. Three film adaptations are made till now. At first animator Ralph Bakshi adapted the novel for film for a minimal budget of $8 million dollars however the film earned $30 million dollars at the box office. United Artists regarded the film a flop.
Then The Return of the King was a television special by Rankin-Bass and made the film from the beginning of the book. This film was targeted to younger audience adults complained that much of the depth of the book was discarded.  Third adaptation was done by Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. A miniseries of The Lord of the Rings was broadcasted in 1993. The Lord of the Rings also got several musical theater adaptations as well.
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Awards                                       

The Lord of the Rings trilogy won Hugo Award for Best Dramatic presentation in their particular years. The Return of the King receives 11 Oscars at the 76th Annual Awards ceremony of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Same book wins Empire Award for the best film of the Year. The Return of the King also wins Four Golden Globe Awards in 2004 during the HFPA’s 61st Annual Awards Ceremony at the Beverly Hilton. It was awarded Best Motion Picture, Drama, Best Director, Best Original Song and Best Original Score. The Return of the King became second movie in history after Titanic which earned over 1 billion $US worldwide. The trilogy became the first film of the fantasy genre, which has the most nominations in the Academy’s history, going beyond the Godfather series’ 28 nominations.
TV Guide celebrated the release of “The Return of the King” with four hologram covers, each featured significant character of the book. Best Internet Advertisement earned this award for The Lord of the Rings. This site got Online Voter’s Choice award for Best Internet Advertising.
The official website for The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers got two awards at the annual Key Art Awards hosted by The Hollywood Reporter. The Lord of the Rings; The Two Towers won MTV Movie Awards in 2003. 



Achievements of the Novel

  • The Lord of the Rings was awarded International Fantasy Award in 1957.
  • BBC conducted a “Big Read” survey in 2003 and The Lord of the Rings was got “Nation’s Best-loved Book.” 
  • Another survey was conducted by Australian ABC in 2004, in which Australians voted The Lord of the Rings “My Favourite Book”, Germans found the same as well.
  • Customers judged The Lord of the Rings as favorite “book of the millennium” in a 1999 poll of Amazon.com.
  • The Lord of the Rings stood 3rd in the Librarians’ poll.

 Criticism

New York Times Book Review writes "A unique, wholly realized other world, evoked from deep in the well of time, massively detailed, absorbingly entertaining, profound in meaning." Many critics criticized The Lord of the Rings as being “wagner for children.” American critic Edmund Wilson characterized The Lord of the Rings as “Juvenile balderdash” in his essay “Oo, those awful Orcs”.  W. H. Auden criticized The Lord of the Rings in 1968 objecting to Tolkien’s conception of animate species that are basically evil without possibility of redemption. But in 1956, New York Times book review Auden called it “a masterpiece of its genre” that succeeded where Milton failed” in showing an epic battle between good and evil. He also included that it “never violated” the reader’s sense of the credible.” Like most of the fantasy books, The Lord of the Rings is also criticised by Evangelicals for its references to quasi-pagan elements and “occultism”.
Michael Moorcock, another notable science fiction writer wrote a detailed critique of the book under the title Epic Pooh preceding the thesis that The Lord of the Rings was simply a child’s tale written in the language of epic myth.
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Publication History           

First edition of The Fellowship of the Ring came in the year July 29, 1954. George Allen & Unwin published it.  The Fellowship of the Ring had 531 pages. The publisher decided to split the whole work in three parts however Tolkien thought it as a multiple volume with six sections. Tolkien proposed six titles for the six sections. The Fellowship of the Ring got two out of the six titles; first section had title: The Ring Sets Out or The First Journey and second section titled as The Ring Sets South or The Ring Goes South in the Millennium edition. The Two Towers was published in November 11, 1954 and it had 416 pages in total, it was followed by The Return of the King October 20, 1955 and had 624 pages.
The six titles were as follow:
T Book I: The Ring Sets Out
O Book II: The Ring Goes South
L Book III: The Treason of Isengard
K Book IV: The Ring Goes East
I Book V: The War of the Ring
E Book VI: The End of the Third Age    
The Lord of the Rings has been translated in dozens of languages due to its success. Tolkien himself checked many translation of the novel. His comments improved the translation process as well as his work. It was The Lord of the Rings which increased the demand for fantasy fiction.

Book Rating

  • The Lord of the Rings is rated as 4.4 and 96% people liked it on Good reads. 
  • The Lord of the Rings is rated 5/5 on foliosociety.
  • Amazon has 4.6 rating for The Lord of the Rings.
  • Google book has 4.5 rating for The Lord of the Rings

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