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Over the past few months, I’ve written a total of ten posts that have pitted a novel against its movie version to try and determine which one I…
Dystopian novels have long been a favourite among bookworms the world over. Some of the sub-genre’s most celebrated works and some of my personal favourites include George Orwell’s…
Prolific author Elmore Leonard wrote nearly fifty novels, multiple short stories and a large handful of screenplays over more than fifty years of working as a published writer….
Spy novels have been a fixture in the world of fiction for quite some time now, dating as far back as the early 19th century. However, it wasn’t…
In 2004, Swedish journalist-turned-author Stieg Larsson died of a sudden heart attack at the age of fifty, about a full year before the release of his debut novel,…
Books have often had the power to court controversy. Vladimir Nabokov’s seminal 1955 novel, Lolita, depicted a grown man’s sexual appetite for a 15-year old girl, causing it…
Every once in a while, a work of fiction feels so authentic that it makes you question whether or not it actually happened. And while, intellectually, a story…
Some books out there leave such a lasting impression on you that no matter how many years it’s been since you’ve read them, they creep into your mind…
Books have been turned into movies for almost as long as movies have existed. It is believed that the first tome to be turned into a film was…