Books & Authors - January 2007

Here's an example: The movie "Alive." Airplane transporting a soccer team crashes in the Andes. The survivors are stuck in the mountains for months with no food...so they eat the dead. It really happened, so it's fascinating. But if this was completely fictional, it wouldn't be as interesting. Why are true stories inherently more appealing? In other words: why are we interested in things we wouldn't otherwise be interested in -- for example, cannibalistic soccer team -- when we know they really happened?

2007-01-16 20:42:44 · 8 answers · asked by rabidbaby 2

Its entitle the wrath of Mulgrath. T.Y.

2007-01-16 20:40:51 · 1 answers · asked by narutz 1

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2007-01-16 20:37:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

im wondering if someone can help me.
im looking for a book, although i don't know the author, title or publisher
i figure somebody else may have read the book and
have more info. on it.
i read the book when i was about 12 in school, it was about a boy who after being the only survivor of a car crash that kills
his parents and siblings goes to live with his grandparents in the country.
then a huge plague breaks out, he watches in on the
news as it spreads across the world, eventually it reaches his small town. everyone dies except him.
after holing himself up in his house for a few weeks
to avoid the plague of rats he ventures out, taking an abandoned car he drives all the way to london in first gear. after being in london for awhile he finds a couple of balloons with messages + an address on them, he tracks down the address but
unfortunately he is too late and discovers a boy (of
the same age as him) who has, just the day hung himself thinking he is the only one left

2007-01-16 20:08:39 · 11 answers · asked by empanda 3

2007-01-16 19:45:49 · 20 answers · asked by ? 3

2007-01-16 19:42:08 · 11 answers · asked by ? 3

I have written a short story ( 3323 words ). A lot of people have read it and i have had an exellent responce to it, some have said it would make a good short drama with a twist. Not really interested in money ( would be nice though ), i would love to see it in print, please help.

2007-01-16 18:16:09 · 6 answers · asked by Chunky 3

In the book the color purple, what does the color purple actually signify or what does it symbolieze

2007-01-16 18:15:06 · 5 answers · asked by Clint 2

2007-01-16 18:06:04 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

for example: shakespeare wrote: shall i compare thee to a summers day, thou art more lovely and more temperate.

whereas i wrote: shall i compare thee to a star so bright, or against the day that has just begun...

is this plagerism?

2007-01-16 18:03:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

hi my annerversity is coming up soon, i was wondering if there any inspiring poets out there that know a romantic poem that i can sweep my beautiful angel off her feet

2007-01-16 17:49:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-16 17:39:04 · 3 answers · asked by Jay 1

I was told that there was a book something like The Red Book or such that had the original fairy tales in them such as Cinderella and how she sentences who wicked stepmother and sisters to be killed and such. Does anyone know of such a book and who published it?

2007-01-16 17:28:24 · 6 answers · asked by scwhirlz 1

OK I need to know what or who Godot symbolizes in the play "Waiting for Godot"...please and thank you!

2007-01-16 17:18:49 · 4 answers · asked by Angie 1

Im talking about life in general, like how people should act in certain situtaions to make their life and other people's life better. I dont know, i feel like starting a book like that with my own veiws but id like to read other authors if there are ones.

2007-01-16 17:17:47 · 1 answers · asked by Mark F 3

Macbeth is an interesting character, because of his dualistic personality and actions some say he represents humandkind. There have been many debates over if Macbeth is a hero or a villain because of the dualism of his character. So what do you think? Hero or villain?

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This is actually an essay question im supposed to answer with at least 1000 words. Due this friday. Id appreciate it alot if you can give me an idea or maybe a link to a website that would greatly help.

2007-01-16 17:15:31 · 3 answers · asked by Erci Bryant 2

please... any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

and by the way, does harry potter book 7 ebook already out in the net? where can i download it for free? i know, the book has no specifiec released date yet, i was just wondering and trying my luck.. who knows... :)

2007-01-16 17:09:05 · 14 answers · asked by ---q.ty pie--- 2

2007-01-16 17:01:08 · 1 answers · asked by sarah 1

I'm rather fond of Edgar Allen Poe's work, but have been wondering something for a while. My two favorite poems written by him are "The Raven" and "Annabel Lee". What are the similaritites and differences between these two? Am I right in thinking that both mention lost loves? And if so, what other similarities are there, if any? Are there any differences?

Sorry, that's four questions. Poe kind of makes me forgot what I'm doing. :D

2007-01-16 16:54:25 · 1 answers · asked by Jenna - Adopt Me Angelina 3

2007-01-16 16:39:21 · 6 answers · asked by Cheering Ash 2

I need a name for a character I'm creating for a story.
I want her name to start with an M, L, A, or S. She had glossy wavy dark brown almost black hair & cobalt blue eyes. She's nice, kind, and loyal, but she doesn't trust most people until she's sure they're trustworthy. She's sort of a loner also. Some names I thought of: Leah, Samantha, Aimee, Kiersten.
Any help on creating characters would help A LOT.

2007-01-16 16:30:07 · 8 answers · asked by Bella Swan 3

...write, all of my ideas sort of copy or have to do with the story i just finished! how can i figure out how to get my own ideas???? i think forever, but i cant think of anything!!!!!!!!!

2007-01-16 16:07:45 · 18 answers · asked by SocialButterfly 1

Could someone please explain to me what people see in him? I've only read a couple of books by King (Desperation, most recently) ,and, from those, I find he is an absolutely terrible writer. He spends forever describing the most trivial of things. I've been told that his older stuff is better, but I really can't bring myself to read one more book by him. I think he's severely overrated.

2007-01-16 15:40:31 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest what is the colour or Mrs. Ratched's hair?? Thank You.

2007-01-16 15:27:01 · 6 answers · asked by A QUESTION 2

any opinions?

2007-01-16 15:23:10 · 8 answers · asked by simdawgydawg 2

Can you give examples from famous Green and Roman literatures?

2007-01-16 15:05:42 · 7 answers · asked by ul0v31t 1

I think im dyslexia or I can not concentrate good enough. sometimes if I read a book I always get my my mind wandering elsewhere. If I had a book right in front of me, I always think of something else for about five minutes or so, and then one minute to the book after putting my best effort. It took me a year or so to finish one good novel.

2007-01-16 15:05:18 · 9 answers · asked by Beam 2

Could you please review this poem? All sugestions are welcome!
Also, I need a title...

Heartbreak, sitting on an elbow
perched on a sill which
looking at the park
she sees the

Wind gusts tugging at the braids of
children smiling as
they crawl across the
church yard

One hears songs that set the tone to
countless praying when the
hopeless finally see the
light that streams through

Stained glass looks upon the park that
filled with children whom
watched by woman that
looking out window
she sees all

2007-01-16 15:00:57 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Could you please review this poem? All sugestions are welcome!

Photograph's a State of Mind

Take a picture
of the past and
slip it in a frame
of mind
pull it out
when use is need
and history
repeats itself
again

2007-01-16 14:59:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-16 14:45:43 · 21 answers · asked by Maggie 2