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chg414 uploaded a cover image to Up & Down New York Saturday, November 12, 2011.
chg414 edited the description of Something Wicked This Way Comes Sunday, October 23, 2011.
Few American novels written this century have endured in ththe heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic.Afantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and the stuff of nightmare.
chg414 edited the first edition of Wonderland Saturday, September 10, 2011.
chg414 edited the first edition of No Exit: A Play in One Act Saturday, September 10, 2011.
chg414 uploaded a cover image to American Painting Thursday, April 14, 2011.
chg414 uploaded a cover image to Traveling in Italy With Henry James: Essays Thursday, April 14, 2011.
chg414 uploaded a cover image to The First Elizabeth Thursday, April 14, 2011.
chg414 edited the description of In Cold Blood Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.Kansas. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.
chg414 edited the description of The Hot Zone Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims so quickly and gruesomely that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extreme contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of a major American city. Is there any way to stop it?
In the winter of 1989, at an Army research facility outside Washington, D.C., this doomsday scenario seemed like a real possibility. A SWAT team of soldiers and scientists wearing biohazard space suits had been organized to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot"hot virus. The grim operation went on in secret for eighteen days, under dangerous conditions for which there was no precedent.
chg414 edited the summary of A Long Way Gone Tuesday, October 19, 2010.
A Long Way Gone is the amazing story of a boy from Africa who battled a horrible war and lived to tell about it. He was only thirteen and was forced with the choice of to kill or to be killed. Ishmael and his brother fled his village, Sierra Leone, because part of the Revolutionary United Front had come to their village and basically massacred it. They knew if they did not run they would either be killed or would be forced to kill. Ishmael, his brother, and some friends hide in the forest and try to go from village to village looking for food and shelter, but it seems that everywhere they go soldiers are not too far behind. The boys constantly struggle from starvation and exhaustion, but the ythey use rap music to keep their spirits up and to keep their minds off of the horrible reality that the village they had once known was now just part of their past. He and the boys go towards Yele because it was rumored to be occupied with government soldiers, but when they get there they were all handed AK’s and were told that that was their chance to get back at the Rebels for killing their families. Ishmael becomes addicted to killing and does it asdrugs, which were introduced to him by the soldiers to make him a hobby. They were onemore effective, yet detatched killer. One day takenUN peace keepers came to the village and took the boys to a rehab center where Ishmael suffered from withdrawals,withdrawal, but luckily overcame his addiction. Ishmael then moved to New York with an uncle for a while and he later became an advocate for human rights. His story was just so sad, yet incredible—it was heart wrenching. It mirrors the war that is going on in the Middle East where children are becoming suicide bombers and part of terrorist groups.
