Age of Cage

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250773032
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Age of Cage by : Keith Phipps

Download or read book Age of Cage written by Keith Phipps and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR "Books We Love" 2022 “Age of Cage might be the closest we will get to understanding the singular beauty of each of Nic Cage’s always electric performances. You are holding the Rosetta Stone for Cage. Enjoy it.” —Paul Scheer, actor, writer and host of the How Did This Get Made? and Unspooled podcasts Icon. Celebrity. Artist. Madman. Genius. Nicolas Cage is many things, but love him, or laugh at him, there's no denying two things: you’ve seen one of his many films, and you certainly know his name. But who is he, really, and why has his career endured for over forty years, with more than a hundred films, and birthed a million memes? Age of Cage is a smart, beguiling book about the films of Nicolas Cage and the actor himself, as well as a sharp-eyed examination of the changes that have taken place in Hollywood over the course of his career. Critic and journalist Keith Phipps draws a portrait of the enigmatic icon by looking at—what else?—Cage’s expansive filmography. As Phipps delights in charting Cage’s films, Age of Cage also chronicles the transformation of film, as Cage’s journey takes him through the world of 1980s comedies (Valley Girl, Peggy Sue Got Married, Moonstruck), to the indie films and blockbuster juggernauts of the 1990s (Wild at Heart, Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off, Con Air), through the wild and unpredictable video-on-demand world of today. Sweeping in scope and intimate in its profile of a fiercely passionate artist, Age of Cage is, like the man himself, surprising, insightful, funny, and one of a kind. So, snap out of it, and enjoy this appreciation of Nicolas Cage, national treasure.

Leaving Las Vegas

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Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802197299
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaving Las Vegas by : John O'Brien

Download or read book Leaving Las Vegas written by John O'Brien and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City). John O’Brien’s debut novel, Leaving Las Vegas, is an emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it; a powerful tale of hard luck, hard drinking, and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family, friends, and, finally, his job. With deliberate resolve, he burns the remnants of his life and heads for Las Vegas to end it all in the last great binge of his hopeless life. On the Strip, he picks up Sera, a prostitute, in what might have become another excess in his self-destructive jag. Instead, their chance meeting becomes a respite on the road to oblivion as they form a bond that is as mysterious as it is immutable.

Dataclysm

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385347383
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Dataclysm by : Christian Rudder

Download or read book Dataclysm written by Christian Rudder and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller An audacious, irreverent investigation of human behavior—and a first look at a revolution in the making Our personal data has been used to spy on us, hire and fire us, and sell us stuff we don’t need. In Dataclysm, Christian Rudder uses it to show us who we truly are. For centuries, we’ve relied on polling or small-scale lab experiments to study human behavior. Today, a new approach is possible. As we live more of our lives online, researchers can finally observe us directly, in vast numbers, and without filters. Data scientists have become the new demographers. In this daring and original book, Rudder explains how Facebook "likes" can predict, with surprising accuracy, a person’s sexual orientation and even intelligence; how attractive women receive exponentially more interview requests; and why you must have haters to be hot. He charts the rise and fall of America’s most reviled word through Google Search and examines the new dynamics of collaborative rage on Twitter. He shows how people express themselves, both privately and publicly. What is the least Asian thing you can say? Do people bathe more in Vermont or New Jersey? What do black women think about Simon & Garfunkel? (Hint: they don’t think about Simon & Garfunkel.) Rudder also traces human migration over time, showing how groups of people move from certain small towns to the same big cities across the globe. And he grapples with the challenge of maintaining privacy in a world where these explorations are possible. Visually arresting and full of wit and insight, Dataclysm is a new way of seeing ourselves—a brilliant alchemy, in which math is made human and numbers become the narrative of our time.

Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000512797
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies by : Matthew Strohl

Download or read book Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies written by Matthew Strohl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people are too busy to keep up with all the good movies they’d like to see, so why should anyone spend their precious time watching the bad ones? In Why It’s OK to Love Bad Movies, philosopher and cinematic bottom feeder Matthew Strohl enthusiastically defends a fondness for disreputable films. Combining philosophy of art with film criticism, Strohl flips conventional notions of "good" and "bad" on their heads and makes the case that the ultimate value of a work of art lies in what it can add to our lives. By this measure, some of the worst movies ever made are also among the best. Through detailed discussions of films such as Troll 2, The Room, Batman & Robin, Twilight, Ninja III: The Domination, and a significant portion of Nicolas Cage’s filmography, Strohl argues that so-called "bad movies" are the ones that break the rules of the art form without the aura of artistic seriousness that surrounds the avant-garde. These movies may not win any awards, but they offer rich opportunities for creative engagement and enable the formation of lively fan communities, and they can be a key ingredient in a fulfilling aesthetic life. Key Features: Written in a humorous, approachable style, appealing to readers with no background in philosophy. Elaborates the rewards of loving bad movies, such as forming unlikely social bonds and developing refinement without narrowness. Discusses a wide range of beloved bad movies, including Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Core, Battlefield Earth, and Freddy Got Fingered. Contains the most extensive discussion of Nicolas Cage ever included in a philosophy book.

Somebody To Love

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Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 0373776586
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (737 download)

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Book Synopsis Somebody To Love by : Kristan Higgins

Download or read book Somebody To Love written by Kristan Higgins and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker Welles, a single mother whose family has just lost everything, finds love in an unexpected place when she travels to Maine to sell her lone possession, a decrepit house in need of repair.

The Witch with No Name

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062356011
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis The Witch with No Name by : Kim Harrison

Download or read book The Witch with No Name written by Kim Harrison and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Rachel Morgan’s ultimate adventure . . . and anything can happen in this final book in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series. Rachel Morgan has come a long way from her early days as an inexperienced bounty hunter. She’s faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and soul-eating demons. She’s crossed worlds, channeled gods, and accepted her place as a day-walking demon. She’s lost friends and lovers and family, and an old enemy has unexpectedly become something much more. But power demands responsibility, and world-changers must always pay a price. Rachel has known that this day would come—and now it is here. To save Ivy’s soul and the rest of the living vampires, to keep the demonic ever after and our own world from destruction, Rachel Morgan will risk everything. . . .

Mad Madame LaLaurie

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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230722
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis Mad Madame LaLaurie by : Victoria Cosner Love

Download or read book Mad Madame LaLaurie written by Victoria Cosner Love and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth behind the legend of New Orleans’ infamous slave owner, madwoman, and murderess, portrayed in the anthology series, American Horror Story. On April 10, 1834, firefighters smashed through a padlocked attic door in the burning Royal Street mansion of Creole society couple Delphine and Louis Lalaurie. In the billowing smoke and flames they made an appalling discovery: the remains of Madame Lalaurie’s chained, starved, and mutilated slaves. This house of horrors in the French Quarter spawned a legend that has endured for more than one-hundred-and-fifty years. But what actually happened in the Lalaurie home? Rumors about her atrocities spread as fast as the fire. But verifiable facts were scarce. Lalaurie wouldn’t answer questions. She disappeared, leaving behind one of the French Quarter’s ghastliest crime scenes, and what is considered to be one of America’s most haunted houses. In Mad Madame Lalaurie, Victoria Cosner Love and Lorelei Shannon “shed light on what is fact and what is purely fiction in a tale that’s still told nightly on the streets of New Orleans” (Deep South Magazine).

Yearbook

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735238006
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Yearbook by : Seth Rogen

Download or read book Yearbook written by Seth Rogen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2021 National Jewish Book Awards SHORTLISTED for the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people’s searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks for bearing with us!) Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites and shit like that, so… here it goes!!! Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it’s likely the former, which is a fancy “book” way of saying “the first one.”) I talk about my grandparents, doing stand-up comedy as a teenager, bar mitzvahs, and Jewish summer camp, and tell way more stories about doing drugs than my mother would like. I also talk about some of my adventures in Los Angeles, and surely say things about other famous people that will create a wildly awkward conversation for me at a party one day. I hope you enjoy the book should you buy it, and if you don’t enjoy it, I’m sorry. If you ever see me on the street and explain the situation, I’ll do my best to make it up to you.

Saving June

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Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 037321202X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Book Synopsis Saving June by : Hannah Harrington

Download or read book Saving June written by Hannah Harrington and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-07-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes and excerpt from Speechless by Hannah Harrington.

Her Wicked Marquess

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Publisher : Entangled: Amara
ISBN 13 : 168281520X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Her Wicked Marquess by : Stacy Reid

Download or read book Her Wicked Marquess written by Stacy Reid and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Maryann Fitzwilliam is too witty and bookish for her own good. No gentleman of the ton will marry her, so her parents arrange for her to wed a man old enough to be her father. But Maryann is ready to use those wits to turn herself into a sinful wallflower. When the scandal sheet reports a sighting of Nicolas St. Ives, the Marquess of Rothbury, climbing out the chamber windows of a house party, Maryann does the unthinkable. She anonymously claims that the bedchamber belonged to none other than Miss Fitzwilliam, tarnishing her own reputation—and chances of the dastardly union her family secured for her. Now she just needs to convince the marquess to keep his silence. Turns out Nicolas allows for the scandal to perpetuate for his own reasons... But when Maryann’s parents hold fast to their arranged marriage plan, it’ll take a scandal of epic proportions for these two to get out of this together. Each book in the Sinful Wallflowers series is STANDALONE: * My Darling Duke * Her Wicked Marquess * A Scoundrel of Her Own

A Matter of Temptation

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Publisher : Entangled: Amara
ISBN 13 : 1649372248
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (493 download)

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Book Synopsis A Matter of Temptation by : Stacy Reid

Download or read book A Matter of Temptation written by Stacy Reid and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Wilhelmina “Mina” Crawford is desperate. Having been ruined in the eyes of society years ago for one foolish, starry-eyed mistake, she spends her days secreted away at her family’s crumbling estate, helping her brother manage the land but not able to truly live life the way she’s always dreamed. When her brother admits to just how dire their finances have gotten, she takes it upon herself to procure employment...but the only one who will even consider the scandalous idea of a female secretary is the brilliant, ruthless, and infuriating Earl of Creswick. Simon Loughton, the Earl of Creswick, needs help if he wants to finally pass the reform bill he’s been championing for years and secure the vote for England’s most vulnerable constituents. Too bad help comes in the form of a woman with breathtaking nerve, fiery red hair, and a sense of humor to match. Now temptation—disguised as a lovely, clever-mouthed devil—lives and works under Simon’s very roof. And Mina finally feels as though she’s truly living life to her wildest dreams. But even the most incendiary of kisses can’t incinerate Mina’s past...or the shocking secret that could ruin them both. Exclusive bonus: Get swept up with an additional short story by author Stacy Reid—available only in print! Each book in the Unforgettable Love series is STANDALONE: * A Matter of Temptation * An Earl to Remember

Room

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178682177X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis Room by : Emma Donoghue

Download or read book Room written by Emma Donoghue and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped as a teenage girl, Ma has been locked inside a purpose built room in her captor's garden for seven years. Her five year old son, Jack, has no concept of the world outside and happily exists inside Room with the help of Ma's games and his vivid imagination where objects like Rug, Lamp and TV are his only friends. But for Ma the time has come to escape and face their biggest challenge to date: the world outside Room.

Before They Were Famous

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Publisher : Stoddart
ISBN 13 : 9781575440071
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Before They Were Famous by : Karen Hardy Bystedt

Download or read book Before They Were Famous written by Karen Hardy Bystedt and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1996 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents photographs and interviews taken between 1987 and 1993 of unknown actors and actresses including Johnny Depp, Keanu Reeves, Melanie Griffith, and David Duchovny

Beauty’S Way

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Publisher : BalboaPress
ISBN 13 : 1452537194
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Book Synopsis Beauty’S Way by : Lori Myles-Carullo

Download or read book Beauty’S Way written by Lori Myles-Carullo and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Navajo traditions Beauty Way, this book acts as an exposition on various vital aspects of life, as well as how to uncover and create true beauty within them all. Author Lori Myles-Carullo struggled with chronic illness for many years and, through the depth of her own healing journey, developed a passion for sharing the wisdom she gained in the process. The essence of beauty explored here is neither about personal appearance nor image, but rather the rich, lived experience of the heart awakening to love and letting go of fear. Each one of us has a great capacity for radical honesty, courage, and transformationand often life provides us with exactly what we need to draw these forth in dramatic and powerful ways. Whether our wake-up calls occur through loss, transition, illness, or relationship struggles, we all have the choice to either contract or expand through our experiences, creating therefore less or more beauty in our lives and the lives of others. Beautys Way gifts you with practical suggestions, through personal story and anecdote, of how to bring more beauty to your existence and to the greater whole. Each chapter ends with specific exercises that will assist you in gaining greater awareness into key parts of lifesome naturally thought of as good, such as love and joy, as well as other, more challenging ones that we often do our best to distract ourselves from due to fear, including pain and grief. By offering our heartfelt compassion and love to it all, a greater realization and manifestation of healing beauty is forever possible.

Rom Com

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ISBN 13 : 9780889229600
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (296 download)

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Book Synopsis Rom Com by : Dina Del Bucchia

Download or read book Rom Com written by Dina Del Bucchia and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this quirky, funny collection, two of poetry's sharpest observers of pop culture examine real-world emotions through a Hollywood lens.

The Weird Accordion to Al

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis The Weird Accordion to Al by : Nathan Rabin

Download or read book The Weird Accordion to Al written by Nathan Rabin and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shit, Actually

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316449849
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Book Synopsis Shit, Actually by : Lindy West

Download or read book Shit, Actually written by Lindy West and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the "Best Books of 2020" by NPR's Book Concierge **Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seattle's alternative newsweekly The Stranger, where she covered film with brutal honesty and giddy irreverence. In Shit, Actually, Lindy returns to those roots, re-examining beloved and iconic movies from the past 40 years with an eye toward the big questions of our time: Is Twilight the horniest movie in history? Why do the zebras in The Lion King trust Mufasa-WHO IS A LION-to look out for their best interests? Why did anyone bother making any more movies after The Fugitive achieved perfection? And, my god, why don't any of the women in Love, Actually ever fucking talk?!?! From Forrest Gump, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and Bad Boys II, to Face/Off, Top Gun, and The Notebook, Lindy combines her razor-sharp wit and trademark humor with a genuine adoration for nostalgic trash to shed new critical light on some of our defining cultural touchstones-the stories we've long been telling ourselves about who we are. At once outrageously funny and piercingly incisive, Shit, Actually reminds us to pause and ask, "How does this movie hold up?", all while teaching us how to laugh at the things we love without ever letting them or ourselves off the hook. Shit, Actually is a love letter and a break-up note all in one: to the films that shaped us and the ones that ruined us. More often than not, Lindy finds, they're one and the same.