I want to begin by stating that I am a massive fan of the Lorien Legacies series, I own all the books and novellas and have enjoyed reading them over the past few years. This is not a criticism on the series itself but rather the author.
Throughout most of my time reading the series I had no idea who the real author of the books was as the pen name "Pittacus Lore" was used, and honestly I wish they had stuck to having a mysterious author.
In January 2015 James Frey came forward as Pittacus. At first I was happy that I finally knew who wrote these amazing books but unfortunately I googled James and found out who he really is. Ignoring the whole memoir fiasco from a few years back- which if you google his name you can find out about immediately- James Frey runs
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Well, for the first two books of the series- 'I am Number Four' and 'The Power of Six'- Frey worked with Jobie Hughes, who after an apparent 'screaming match' between the authors, was cut from the project. Ever since this James Frey has co-wrote the rest of the series with someone currently unknown.
Jobie Hughes was the one who wrote the movie version of 'I am Number Four' which came out in 2011. Sadly, the movie did not receive the credit it deserved as it widely varied from its book counter part and therefore the idea for the rest of the series to become movies was scrapped. The movie did not just neglect many of the key features of the series, along with well needed explanations and character development, but the story line was hugely changed. I enjoyed the movie but it did not live up to its full potential.
*I believe this may have occurred because when co-writing something, creative differences will arrive and ideas will be altered. In the case of the movie, there was no one to challenge Jobie's ideas and therefore he may have wrote the movie to reflect his ideas for I am number four, rather than the book that was released. *This is just my
The novels in this series are published by Clark, through her publishing company, Wahida Clark Presents Publishing Company LLC. She started the company after serving a
issues. He has written many other books with Dugard like Killing Kennedy: T he End of Camelot,
...e characters consumed their time adjusting all sorts of documents to make the world of the past seem favorable to the party by altering it. Now we use a few trusted online sources, most of our general knowledge originates from these sources. These could easily be deliberately altered. Thinking about it, when was the last time you saw someone use an encyclopedia? Most people use Google or Wikipedia as their sources. We put trust into these sources when we have no idea where they come from, the information comes from people that voluntarily put them up.
As a child, Ray Bradbury loved to read fantasy novels. Inspired by his favorite writers, he longed to become a fantasy writer himself. Bradbury lived during the Great Depression with very little money, therefore he could not put himself through school. Instead, Bradbury went to the library every other day for ten years. During this time, he realized that he wanted to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. To get money, Bradbury started publishing his works in a newspaper. Because he wanted practice, he used several pseudonyms to make it look like he had several authors publishing their stories in his newspaper, but in fact, it was written entirely by Bradbury himself. “Bradbury uses [his] stories not only to entertain, but to cause readers to think about their own lives” (Clark, Tracy). He focused more on the message of his story than the popularity of it. “When ask...
There were really no very interesting characters in this book. I was never one to be interested in history. There were some interesting parts though, for instance, the chapter about the railroad man was pretty good, and it was kind of cool that he got promoted to vice-president of the railroad he work on within a year after he started the job. Some of the wars he was in were ok as well. It sometimes amazes me that there were so many unnamed heroes.
He (JFK) wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History. (Freidel and Sidey).
David Howarth's writing style is unique. He allows the story to develop on its own. The story flows and the events do not seem forced. The story reads like a historical novel and is easy to follow. Howarth presents his information fully and does not leave anything for the reader to question. The reader does not become confused or lost because of the way that the author reveals his information in the book.
He was a high school United States history and political science teacher at The Stoney Brooke School. He then starting working on a podcast called 12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire. He resigned from teaching to work with Crown Publishing to publish his first book, Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire that Rescued Western Civilization, published on September 15, 2009. His second book, The Normans: From Raiders to Kings, was released on January 3, 2014. His third book, The Sea Wolves: A History of the Vikings, which is a popular book, published in December 2014. He and his wife, who is the Catherine Tipmore, now live in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He is currently serving as a chair of the history department at Washington Christian Academy in Olney, Maryland. He found his information from primary and secondary sources. The book was well written although it was very hectic in the beginning, it began to come together in the second part and started making
The book is so well written it can be read in many different ways, as I have mentioned. In the first chapter we get hints as to all of them and the ambiguity of the story starts as early as chapter 1, giving the reader different paths to read the story, in different ways.
author of this book. He has also has written many other good books such as The Grapes
After this suzanne collins took his advice and started writing books which everyone knows her bestseller the hunger games trilogy, when she wrote this it immediately caught the attention of not only other writer but screenwriters as well to make one of the best selling movies in the box office which gave her publicity that she would have never guessed she would have gained in her
...iter in the sense that he knew how to make the readers think the same way he does, through the characters they were following.
The books, A Wrinkle in Time and And Then There Were None, both have many differences in the movie versions. The directors of both movies change the plot to make the movie see fit to what they may have imaged the book to be, while still keeping the story line the same.
Travis, Trysh. "James Frey: Feelings as Facts." Chronicle of Higher Education, vol. 52, no. 22, 03 Feb. 2006, p.
I found this book to be a rather interesting read. I enjoyed how Levathes researched this book and wrote it to try to explain about this specific period of time and how it is very non-fiction.