#greg keyes

[ape-apocalypse]

Road To The Kingdom - Firestorm Tie-In Novel

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Firestorm is a prequel novel written by Greg Keyes for the second movie in the reboot trilogy. It takes place soon after the end of the first film, about a week after the apes escaped into the redwood forest beyond San Francisco and the Simian Flu began to cut through the human race. This novel is a fantastic bridge between Rise and Dawn, giving us more insight into characters we met in the first movie who will feature in the next, as well as fleshing out the fall of society. 

The book does very well juggling between the two massive plots of Caesar's apes avoiding their human hunters and the Simian Flu tearing through the city. Though we don't see Will or any other humans we met in Rise, they give us many new human characters: a reporter trying to make the connection between the escaped apes and the new virus, an emergency room doctor dealing hands on with outbreak casualties, and an ape researcher and a former hunter who have been brought in by Gen-Sys to capture Caesar's group. While I thought I wouldn't care about the humans because the apes are always my favorite characters, all these humans in different locations and with different stories keep the story from dragging; I ended up enjoying the final days of humanity almost as much as Caesar's story. The book also gives us the first introduction to a human character who will become important in Dawn: Dreyfus, the leader of the human colony played by Gary Oldman. Going into the movie, his backstory isn't very clear other than he was in some position of power before the end and he lost his wife and children. But the book goes really deep into his story of a former police chief running for mayor and wanting to protect humans. Rereading the book in 2024, the parallels of the Simian Flu with the Covid outbreak definitely rings true (much like the YouTube shorts).

But no matter how good the human characters are, what I enjoyed most about this book was seeing Caesar and his escaped apes start to adapt to life in the wild. Even while they're being hounded by the humans chasing them, they have to figure out how to care for sick/injured apes and where to get food without humans to feed them. A great moment for Caesar is when he thinks to himself that he never thought beyond escaping from the human city; his realization that there is more to figure out than just dodging humans shows how he goes from accidental ringleader from the sanctuary to the wise authoritative leader of the apes of the next two films.

Though surprisingly, the true star of this book isn't Caesar; it's Koba. We get numerous detailed flashbacks of Koba's life before ending up in the Gen-Sys lab and receiving the brain enhancing drugs. From the death of his mother to being an abused TV star to arriving at the labs as a test ape. In the films, Koba's hatred of humans shines through and is unquestionable; you don't need the backstory to understand why he carries a grudge against all humanity. But reading the details really did break my heart. And getting his backstory revealed as he learns to work with other apes, as he proves his loyalty to Caesar by rescuing injured apes rather than wrecking vengeance on humans, you actually have hope that he could be happy now that he was free with other apes. 

Another great part of the book is getting to see the very beginning of Caesar and Cornelia's courtship. Since one of my disappointments with the films are the forgotten female characters, I was glad to see Cornelia here, challenging Caesar's orders when it came to taking care of injured apes. Though her role is still small, I liked seeing her get a little time to flesh out her character.

Firestorm is officially labeled as a prequel (which is why I have it listed first as I'm trying to go in chronological storyline order), but I actually enjoyed reading it after seeing Dawn. While I think it can still be appreciated in any order, I liked getting to meet Koba in the movie and seeing him as a great complicated villain, before then learning his backstory and growing your sympathy for him, while also thinking about how tragic it is that he couldn't let go of his hate. Whatever order you decide to read them in, Firestorm by Greg Keyes is a wonderful expansion on the movies that I would label as required reading for fans for the expansive and enjoyable story it shares.

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#dawn of the planet of the apes #rise of the planet of the apes #planet of the apes #war of the planet of the apes #war for the planet of the apes #kingdom of the planet of the apes #reboot pota #pota #firestorm #novel #caesar #koba #prequel #greg keyes #andy serkis #mine #chimpanzee #chimp

[freshlybrewedbookreviews]

The Briar King (Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #1) by Greg Keyes

I'd had The Briar King on my TBR pile for quite some time (I actually think it was one of my earliest Kindle purchases literal years ago.) I hadn't read an epic fantasy in awhile, so it was time; however, The Briar King missed the mark for me. I couldn't tell if it wasn't fulfilling my fantasy expectations because it'd be so long since I'd read an epic fantasy, or if it's because this book was published in 2002, and I've come to expect so much more from my fantasy since starting to read fantasy over two decades ago (I could list at least 20 exceptional works of fantasy off the top of my head.)

The story wasn't terrible, but the prologue felt only loosely related to the rest of the story, and felt pretty dull to me: I was much more drawn to the characters who made up the bulk of the story. The adventure and politics were standard fare; nothing that rocked my world, but was still in line with an epic fantasy quest.

There's not much else for me to say, other than this was a so-so read in a day and age where there's so much great fantasy out there.

#book review #freshly brewed #The Briar King #Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone #Greg Keyes #books #reading

[bornitereads]

The Final Prophecy - Greg Keyes

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order book 18

Reread: Jan 2024

The penultimate book of the New Jedi Order series! You know when I started my reread of NJO I thought I could finish it before the end of 2023. Lol, did not happen. I could have if I applied most of my free time to reading, but sometimes a bitch needs to also do other things.

Anyways, two storylines here. One with Wedge Antilles and his military operation in Bilbringi. An operation which goes south fast because the Yuuzhan Vong have finally started disrupting communications by destroying holonet relays. The other storyline is all about the Yuuzhan Vong. Discontent on Yuuzhan'tar (Coruscant), evidence from Zonama Sekot pointing to Yuuzhan Vong origins, Nom Anor making prophecies he thinks are bullshit. In the end three Yuuzhan Vong are extracted from Coruscant by Tahiri and Corran Horn and go to Zonama Sekot. Revelations are had, betrayals are made, Nom Anor is an absolute dick.

I like the focus on the Yuuzhan Vong in this book, the introduction of more nuance into them as a species was a wise call imo. They are not a monolith, and I appreciate the depth that was added to them. I also liked that when they arrived at Zonama Sekot they landed very far from the other Jedi already on planet. It gave the Yuuzhan Vong characters time to process Zonama Sekot without influence. It was also nice to have, like, second? third? rank characters have their time without anyone of the Skywalker lineage involved.

Info: Del Rey; 2003

#the final prophecy #greg keyes #star wars #the new jedi order #njo #fiction #science fiction #sci fi

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Tequila Body Shots 1999

#Tequila Body Shots #Joey Lawrence #Dru Mouser #Nathan Anderson #Josh Marchette #Rob Benedict #Jennifer Lyons #Mauro L. Metini #Senta Moses #Henry Darrow #Rene L. Moreno #Stephanie Arellano #Richard Stay #Apollo Dukakis #Ian Jacklin #Alexandra Adi #Harley Zumbrum #Greg Poland #Heather Holland #Irwin Keyes #Al Martinez #Paul Renteria #Monica Weitzel #John Duffy #Dane Moreton #Deirdre O'Brien #Joey Ortega #Lea Roman #Brett Spiegel

[merethicera]

i think the elder scrolls novels are like. the funniest possible execution of that idea. Greg Keyes was given what seems to be free reign to do whatever he wanted with elder scrolls and he decided the best use of that was for it to be a sick and twisted cooking show. like yeah clavicus vile is there but mostly its about frying evil garlic in a dastardly pan

[brokehorrorfan]

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire's novelization will be published in paperback, e-book, and audio book on April 16 via Titan Books. The film hits theaters on March 29.

The 320-page book is written by Greg Keyes (Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong novelizations), based on the screenplay by Terry Rossio (Pirates of the Caribbean), Simon Barrett (You're Next), and Jeremy Slater (The Umbrella Academy).

The almighty Kong and the fearsome Godzilla face a colossal undiscovered threat hidden within our world, challenging their very existence – and our own. The latest epic will delve further into the histories of these Titans, their origins and the mysteries of Skull Island and beyond, while uncovering the mythic battle that helped forge these extraordinary beings and tied them to humankind forever.

Pre-order Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.

#godzilla x kong the new empire #godzilla x kong #godzilla #kong #godzilla x kong: the new empire #titan books #book #gift #monsterverse #gxk #godzilla vs. kong #godzilla vs kong #terry rossio #simon barrett #kaiju

[caliblorn]

"get to know me" game

Tagged by @orfeoarte (thank u, kisses <3)

tagging @nightingalehourss, @crynwr-drwg, @sneakygreenbean, @unknownhomosapien, @fatherentropy, @blackmetalsnake

LAST SONG: Crystal Castles - Suffocation but the intro is heavenly (prod.yvngchim) (random youtube suggestion but it fucks. Also I love Crystal Castles).

LAST MOVIE: I...don't remember. I really don't. I think Matrix Reloaded, two weeks ago?

CURRENTLY WATCHING: The entirety of Family Guy, all 20 seasons of it. This is happening against my will. If you mean currently as is RIGHT NOW...my art :))

CURRENTLY READING: Just started the first Infernal City novel by Greg Keyes!! (a published Elder Scrolls fantasy novel)

LAST THING SEARCHED FOR WRITING/ART PURPOSES: "Ice wraiths" :)

#tag game

[thebanneredmareinn]

1. Reading Lord of Souls would finish the duology for me so I should probably do that one, but I'm undecided.

2. Finishing Search and Destroy would leave me with one more book in the series (as far as i know. there may be more that i don't know about.)

3. I started the Orc Prince, but got distracted and haven't finished it. It seems good so far though

4. Bookshops & Bonedust, I'm assuming, will have a similar vibe to Legends & Lattes so it'll be fun

5. Same for Sword & Thistle. I liked Cursed Cocktails and the vibe from that, so I have high hopes for this one

#not skyrim #polls #long post #i guess. is it that long?

[hrodvitnon]

Well, regarding the root cause for Goji's distaste for the Kong species, we gotta take a look at the whooole timeline of events and encounters he had with them. Dominion gave us what might have been Goji's first ever encounter with a Kong in the form of the Rival. We know he was significantly younger and weaker at the time, as since we know he gets up to a lot more after that, I think it's safe to assume this to be his first ever interaction with the Kong species.

And although we don't know of any other minor encounter such as that happening later on, we do know of a pretty big one: The Kong/Zilla Wars. Which we know for a fact that he took part in. How big of a part he played depends entirely on how you choose to interpret the GvK novel, which does go more in depth into what went down before, during, and after the war. And at the center of the firestorm that was the war, is one named character, Zlo-zla-Halawa, which in the iwi language means "Great Eternal Enemy." This, according to the iwi legends, was a Godzilla that "ate a star", becoming supremely powerful, but also 'wicked'. Not only in their eyes, but also that of their Kong overlords. Who, in a rather foolish attempt to not only eliminate what could be a potential threat to them, but also steal his power for themselves, attacked first.

We don't know of any specifics about what happened after that, only that this attack failed and kick-started the war between the two species. And after an undetermined amount of time, the Kongs were being seemingly overwhelming. Enough for a relatively small group of them to end up defecting. Abandoning the war, leaving behind the ones who were too bloodthirsty to seek a way out, as well as Zlo-zla-Halawa. These Kongs would eventually find their way to Skull Island, where they would stay in spite of the harsh conditions. Because not only was Skull Island considerably smaller than the Hollow Earth, it also did not have nearly as many resources. Which meant they could hardly survive, let alone thrive in it. And as generations passed, the Kongs in there would either starved, or shrink in size in order to make better use of those limited resources. And well, we know their story doesn't have a happy ending. As the Skullcrawlers, who we know to be an invasive species that most likely originated from the Hollow Earth itself, would eventually overwhelm them, and leave our Kong as the last one standing.

The GvK novel heavily implies that our Godzilla is or was Zlo-zla-Halawa. And given the fact that Greg Keyes, the guy who wrote the novel, also as Dominion and upcoming GxK novel, I am willing to believe that.

Right, there is that whole can of worms to consider as well. Zlo-zla-Halawa would definitely be seen as wicked by his enemies, especially if Godzilla himself was the Great Eternal Enemy, and Godzilla deciding to not only team up with Kong but not kill him becomes more meaningful with that in mind. Though he's still clearly willing to shoot fire at him in previews for GxK, but we'll have to wait and see if we get more context than "they don't have to like each other".

#geminamari101 #gemini amorim #godzilla #kong

[demonsonthemoon]

Am I reading “losing your closed one to the Drift” as a metaphor for losing your closed ones to a romantic relationship when you’re an aromantic person? You bet your ass I am.

Ou-Yang Jinhai from Pacific Rim Uprising is an aromantic icon~

(Excerpts are from “Ascension” by Greg Keyes, a prequel novel to Pacific Rim Uprising) (Transcripts under the cut)

“Yes,” she said. “I got that. You worked to come here, Jinhai, because you hoped to drift wih someone. You believed you wanted what your parents have. The kind of bond they have. But that’s now what you want at all, is it?”

Jinhai shook his head, and realized to his shame that he was starting to cry.

“No,” he said. “I just wanted - them. When I was little, they loved me so much. We did everything together. We were a family. And then - they drifted. At first it was a little, and then it was a lot. And after Huo Da - when both of them nearly died in the Drift - it was like no one ele was real to them anymore, including me. They’re real to each other - they’re everything to each other - but the rest of us are just kind of ghosts to them. It’s not like they never try, it’s jut - I can tell they don’t feel it.”

He took a sip of his tea.

“I thought it was my fault. I thought that if I could just learn how they felt, feel that way about someone, I could somehow step into their world. Be a part of it the way I... I want to be.” He sighed. “I’m sorry, I know this must sound sappy to you.”

She shook her head.

#AggressivelyArospecWeek #AAW23 #Pacific Rim #Ou-Yang Jinhai #Pacific Rim Uprising

[aflyingcontradiction]

23 books in 2023

I was tagged by @nikita-not-nikola to list 23 books I read in 2023. Fortunately I keep track of all the books I read so here's 23 books I enjoyed! (Some of these are re-reads because I've been slowly re-reading all the books on my shelf to determine whether to keep them). So in no particular order here it goes:

L'Odyssée d'Hakim by Fabien Toulmé (technically 3 books but I'm going to treat it as one)

Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M. Valente

All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

Maus by Art Spiegelman

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Smoke gets in your eyes by Caitlin Doughty

Die unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

Quicksand House by Carlton Mellick III

Railsea by China Miéville

Defying Doomsday (a multi-author anthology)

The Waterborn by Greg Keyes

How not to be a boy by Robert Webb

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

The Witch's Heart by Genevieve Gornichec

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson

Help Fund My Robot Army (another multi-author anthology)

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Emotional First Aid by Guy Winch

Honourable mentions to The Unicorn's Beard, Running with Rats and To Clear the Air by Malcolm Schmitz, which are all short stories, so I didn't feel like putting them in the main list was quite right, but they are still all really excellent.

Going to tag @lovethatcoat, @soryualeksi, @bakomglaset, @ante--meridiem, @dachkammermusik, @octopuscato, @titaniumelemental and anyone else who feels like doing this!

#tag meme #I read 57 books last year and most of them were at least pretty good so it was hard to choose #I didn't necessarily pick the 23 I liked best in the end - I tried but not sure if I succeeded #But I would recommend all of the books I listed anyway!

[legendscon]

Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to Greg Keyes, author of the New Jedi Order books Edge of Victory I: Conquest, Edge of Victory II: Rebirth and The Final Prophecy! We hope you have a fantastic day!

#New Jedi Order #Yuuzhan Vong #Talon Karrde #Anakin Solo #Tahiri Veila #Corran Horn #Nom Anor #Jaina Solo #Kyp Durron #Mara Jade #Ben Skywalker #Jacen Solo #Saba Sebatyne

[fragglez]

does anyone have an online/pdf version of "Planet of the Apes: Caesar's Story" by Greg Keyes?

#planet of the apes #pota #books

[bornitereads]

Edge of Victory II: Rebirth - Greg Keyes

Star Wars: The New Jedi Order book 7

Reread: Nov 2023

While the first Edge of Victory book was one story about Anakin on Yavin 4. This one has many plotlines. And not all of them converge at the end. It's kind of like a bunch of separate novellas all put together. All the major characters are in the book, including Anakin and Tahiri after their trauma inducing time on Yavin 4. Jaina is getting tricked into attacking a civilian Yuuzhan Vong target. Jacen is being annoying again, fighting with his father. In happier news however Mara gives birth to her and Luke's son, Ben. Not before almost dying first though.

I couldn't really remember what happened in this one. Which in a series this long is no surprise, but the best bits stick out. And no bits here stuck out. I remember liking it at least. But again it didn't stick so just one of the lag points of the series.

Info: Del Rey; 2001

#egde of victory ii: rebirth #greg keyes #edge of victory duology #star wars #the new jedi order #njo #fiction #science fiction #sci fi

[sidicecheilibri]

I libri nominati da Rory Gilmore

1 – 1984, George Orwell

2 – Le Avventure di Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain

3 – Alice nel Paese delle Meraviglie, Lewis Carrol

4 – Le Fantastiche Avventure di Kavalier e Clay, Michael Chabon

5 – Una Tragedia Americana, Theodore Dreiser

6 – Le Ceneri di Angela, Frank McCourt

7 – Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoj

8 – Il Diario di Anna Frank

9 – La Guerra Archidamica, Donald Kagan

10 – L’Arte del Romanzo, Henry James

11 – L’Arte della Guerra, Sun Tzu

12 – Mentre Morivo, William Faulkner

13 – Espiazione, Ian McEvan

14 – Autobiografia di un Volto, Lucy Grealy

15 – Il Risveglio, Kate Chopin

16 – Babe, Dick King-Smith

17 – Contrattacco. La Guerra non Dichiarata Contro le Donne, Susan Faludi

18 – Balzac e la Piccola Sarta Cinese, Dai Sijie

19 – Bel Canto, Anne Pachett

20 – La Campana di Vetro, Sylvia Plath

21 – Amatissima, Toni Morrison

22 – Beowulf: una Nuova Traduzione, Seamus Heaney

23 – La Bhagavad Gita

24 – Il Piccolo Villaggio dei Sopravvissuti, Peter Duffy

25 – Bitch Rules. Consigli di Comune Buonsenso per donne Fuori dal Comune, Elizabeth Wurtzel

26 – Un Fulmine a Ciel Sereno ed altri Saggi, Mary McCarthy

27 – Il Mondo Nuovo, Adolf Huxley

28 – Brick Lane, Monica Ali

29 – Brigadoon, Alan Jay Lerner

30 – Candido, Voltaire

31 – I Racconti di Canterbury, Geoffrey Chaucer

32 – Carrie, Stephen King

33 – Catch-22, Joseph Heller

34 – Il Giovane Holden, J.D.Salinger

35 – La Tela di Carlotta, E.B.White

36 – Quelle Due, Lillian Hellman

37 – Christine, Stephen King

38 – Il Canto di Natale, Charles Dickens

39 – Arancia Meccanica, Anthony Burgess

40 – Il Codice dei Wooster, P.G.Wodehouse

41 – The Collected Stories, Eudora Welty

42 – La Commedia degli Errori, William Shakespeare

43 – Novelle, Dawn Powell

44 – Tutte le Poesie, Anne Sexton

45 – Racconti, Dorothy Parker

46 – Una Banda di Idioti, John Kennedy Toole

47 – Il03 al 09/03 Conte di Montecristo, Alexandre Dumas

48 – La Cugina Bette, Honore de Balzac

49 – Delitto e Castigo, Fedor Dostoevskij

50 – Il Petalo Cremisi e il Bianco, Michel Faber

51 – Il Crogiuolo, Arthur Miller

52 – Cujo, Stephen King

53 – Il Curioso Caso del Cane Ucciso a Mezzanotte, Mark Haddon

54 – La Figlia della Fortuna, Isabel Allende

55 – David e Lisa, Dr.Theodore Issac Rubin M.D

56 – David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

57 – Il Codice Da Vinci, Dan Brown

58 – Le Anime Morte, Nikolaj Gogol

59 – I Demoni, Fedor Dostoevskij

60 – Morte di un Commesso Viaggiatore, Arthur Miller

61 – Deenie, Judy Blume

62 – La Città Bianca e il Diavolo, Erik Larson

63 – The Dirt. Confessioni della Band più Oltraggiosa del Rock, Tommy Lee – Vince Neil – Mick Mars – Nikki Sixx

64 – La Divina Commedia, Dante Alighieri

65 – I Sublimi Segreti delle Ya-Ya Sisters, Rebecca Wells

66 – Don Chischiotte, Miguel de Cervantes

67 – A Spasso con Daisy, Alfred Uhvr

68 – Dr. Jeckill e Mr.Hide, Robert Louis Stevenson

69 – Tutti i Racconti e le Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

70 – Eleanor Roosevelt, Blanche Wiesen Cook

71 – Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe

72 – Lettere, Mark Dunn

73 – Eloise, Kay Thompson

74 – Emily The Strange, Roger Reger

75 – Emma, Jane Austen

76 – Il Declino dell’Impero Whiting, Richard Russo

77 – Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective, Donald J.Sobol

78 – Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton

79 – Etica, Spinoza

80 – Europe Through the back door, 2003, Rick Steves

81 – Eva Luna, Isabel Allende

82 – Ogni cosa è Illuminata, Jonathan Safran Foer

83 – Stravaganza, Gary Krist

84 – Farhenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

85 – Farhenheit 9/11, Michael Moore

86 – La Caduta dell’Impero di Atene, Donald Kagan

87 – Fat Land, il Paese dei Ciccioni, Greg Critser

88 – Paura e Delirio a Las Vegas, Hunter S.Thompson

89 – La Compagnia dell’Anello, J.R.R.Tolkien

90 – Il Violinista sul Tetto, Joseph Stein

91 – Le Cinque Persone che Incontri in Cielo, Mitch Albom

92 – Finnegan’s Wake, James Joyce

93 – Fletch, Gregory McDonald

94 – Fiori per Algernon, Daniel Keyes

95 – La Fortezza della Solitudine, Jonathan Lethem

96 – La Fonte Meravigliosa, Ayn Rand

97 – Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

98 – Franny e Zooeey, J.D.Salinger

99 – Quel Pazzo Venerdì, Mary Rodgers

100 – Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut

101 – Questioni di Genere, Judith Butler

102 – George W.Bushism: The Slate Book of Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President, Jacob Weisberg

103 – Gidget, Fredrick Kohner

104 – Ragazze Interrotte, Susanna Kaysen

105 – The Gnostic Gospels, Elaine Pagels

106 – Il Padrino, Parte I, Mario Puzo

107 – Il Dio delle Piccole Cose, Arundhati Roy

108 – La Storia dei Tre Orsi, Alvin Granowsky

109 – Via Col Vento, Margaret Mitchell

110 – Il Buon Soldato, Ford Maddox Ford

111 – Il Gospel secondo Judy Bloom

112 – Il Laureato, Charles Webb

113 – Furore, John Steinbeck

114 – Il Grande Gatsby, F.Scott Fitzgerald

115 – Grandi Speranze, Charles Dickens

116 – Il Gruppo, Mary McCarthy

117 – Amleto, William Shakespeare

118 – Harry Potter e il Calice di Fuoco, J.K.Rowling

119 – Harry Potter e la Pietra Filosofale, J.K.Rowling

120 – L’Opera Struggente di un Formidabile Genio, Dave Eggers

121 – Cuore di Tenebra, Joseph Conrad

122 – Helter Skelter: La vera storia del Caso Charles Manson, Vincent Bugliosi e Curt Gentry

123 – Enrico IV, Parte Prima, William Shakespeare

124 – Enrico IV, Parte Seconda, William Shakespeare

125 – Enrico V, William Shakespeare

126 – Alta Fedeltà, Nick Hornby

127 – La Storia del Declino e della Caduta dell’Impero Romano, Edward Gibbon

128 – Holidays on Ice: Storie, David Sedaris

129 – The Holy Barbarians, Lawrence Lipton

130 – La Casa di Sabbia e Nebbia, Andre Dubus III

131 – La Casa degli Spiriti, Isabel Allende

132 – Come Respirare Sott’acqua, Julie Orringer

133 – Come il Grinch Rubò il Natale, Dr.Seuss

134 – How the Light Gets In, M.J.Hyland

135 – Urlo, Allen Ginsberg

136 – Il Gobbo di Notre Dame, Victor Hugo

137 – Iliade, Omero

138 – Sono con la Band, Pamela des Barres

139 – A Sangue Freddo, Truman Capote

140 – Inferno, Dante

141 – …e l’Uomo Creò Satana, Jerome Lawrence e Robert E.Lee

142 – Ironweed, William J.Kennedy

143 – It takes a Village, Hilary Clinton

144 – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

145 – Il Circolo della Fortuna e della Felicità, Amy tan

146 – Giulio Cesare, William Shakespeare

147 – Il Celebre Ranocchio Saltatore della Contea di Calaveras, Mark Twain

148 – La Giungla, Upton Sinclair

149 – Just a Couple of Days, Tony Vigorito

150 – The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander

151 – Kitchen Confidential: Avventure Gastronomiche a New York, Anthony Bourdain

152 – Il Cacciatore di Aquiloni, Khaled Hosseini

153 – L’amante di Lady Chatterley, D.H.Lawrence

154 – L’Ultimo Impero: Saggi 1992-2000, Gore Vidal

155 – Foglie d’Erba, Walt Whitman

156 – La Leggenda di Bagger Vance, Steven Pressfield

157 – Meno di Zero, Bret Easton Ellis

158 – Lettere a un Giovane Poeta, Rainer Maria Rilke

159 – Balle! E tutti i Ballisti che Ce Le Stanno Raccontando, Al Franken

160 – Vita di Pi, Yann Martell

161 – La piccola Dorrit, Charles Dickens

162 – The little Locksmith, Katharine Butler Hathaway

163 – La piccola fiammiferaia, Hans Christian Andersen

164 – Piccole Donne, Louisa May Alcott

165 – Living History, Hilary Clinton

166 – Il signore delle Mosche, William Golding

167 – La Lotteria, ed altre storie, Shirley Jackson

168 – Amabili Resti, Alice Sebold

169 – Love Story, Eric Segal

170 – Macbeth, William Shakespeare

171 – Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

172 – The Manticore, Robertson Davies

173 – Marathon Man, William Goldman

174 – Il Maestro e Margherita, Michail Bulgakov

175 – Memorie di una figlia per bene, Simone de Beauvoir

176 – Memorie del Generale W.T. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman

177 – L’uomo più divertente del mondo, David Sedaris

178 – The meaning of Consuelo, Judith Ortiz Cofer

179 – Mencken’s Chrestomathy, H.R. Mencken

180 – Le Allegre Comari di Windsor, William Shakespeare

181 – La Metamorfosi, Franz Kafka

182 – Middlesex, Jeoffrey Eugenides

183 – Anna dei Miracoli, William Gibson

184 – Moby Dick, Hermann Melville

185 – The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion, Jim Irvin

186 – Moliere: la biografia, Hobart Chatfield Taylor

187 – A monetary history of the United States, Milton Friedman

188 – Monsieur Proust, Celeste Albaret

189 – A Month of Sundays: searching for the spirit and my sister, Julie Mars

190 – Festa Mobile, Ernest Hemingway

191 – Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

192 – Gli ammutinati del Bounty, Charles Nordhoff e James Norman Hall

193 – My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and Its Aftermath, Seymour M.Hersh

194 – My Life as Author and Editor, H.R.Mencken

195 – My life in orange: growing up with the guru, Tim Guest

196 – Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978, Myra Waldo

197 – La custode di mia sorella, Jodi Picoult

198 – Il Nudo e il Morto, Norman Mailer

199 – Il Nome della Rosa, Umberto Eco

200 – The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri

201 – Il Diario di una Tata, Emma McLaughlin

202 – Nervous System: Or, Losing my Mind in Literature, Jan Lars Jensen

203 – Nuove Poesie, Emily Dickinson

204 – The New Way Things Work, David Macaulay

205 – Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich

206 – Notte, Elie Wiesel

207 – Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

208 – The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, William E.Cain, Laurie A.Finke, Barbara E.Johnson, John P.McGowan

209 – Racconti 1930-1942, Dawn Powell

210 – Taccuino di un Vecchio Porco, Charles Bukowski

211 – Uomini e Topi, John Steinbeck

212 – Old School, Tobias Wolff

213 – Sulla Strada, Jack Kerouac

214 – Qualcuno Volò sul Nido del Cuculo, Ken Kesey

215 – Cent’Anni di Solitudine, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

216 – The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life, Amy Tan

217 – La Notte dell’Oracolo, Paul Auster

218 – L’Ultimo degli Uomini, Margaret Atwood

219 – Otello, William Shakespeare

220 – Il Nostro Comune Amico, Charles Dickens

221 – The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan

222 – La Mia Africa, Karen Blixen

223 – The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

224 – Passaggio in India, E.M.Forster

225 – The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition, Donald Kagan

226 – Noi Siamo Infinito, Stephen Chbosky

227 – Peyton Place, Grace Metalious

228 – Il Ritratto di Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

229 – Pigs at the Trough, Arianna Huffington

230 – Le Avventure di Pinocchio, Carlo Collodi

231 – Please Kill Me: Il Punk nelle Parole dei Suoi Protagonisti, Legs McNeil e Gillian McCain

232 – Una Vita da Lettore, Nick Hornby

233 – The Portable Dorothy Parker, Dorothy Parker

234 – The Portable Nietzche, Fredrich Nietzche

235 – The Price of Loyalty: George W.Bush, the White House, and the Education on Paul O’Neil, Ron Suskind

236 – Orgoglio e Pregiudizio, Jane Austen

237 – Property, Valerie Martin

238 – Pushkin, La Biografia, T.J.Binyon

239 – Pigmallione, G.B.Shaw

240 – Quattrocento, James Mckean

241 – A Quiet Storm, Rachel Howzell Hall

242 – Rapunzel, I Fratelli Grimm

243 – Il Corvo ed Altre Poesie, Edgar Allan Poe

244 – Il Filo del Rasoio, W.Somerset Maugham

245 – Leggere Lolita a Teheran, Azar Nafisi

246 – Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

247 – Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin

248 – The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

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You Have My Attention: New Jedi Order First Lines

Ok, so Vector Prime wasn't my first Star Wars EU book; that would have been at least semi logical and honestly logic and hinged-ness is not how I would characterize either my experience with the Star Wars fandom, the EU, or just Star Wars in general. We have Anakin Skywalker, hinged is not the vibe. That said, Vector Prime was my fourth Star Wars book, and despite some flaws and peaks and valleys in quality, the New Jedi Order holds a very nostalgic place in my heart. Let's see how the authors of the New Jedi Order books catch readers.

It was too peaceful out here, surrounded by the vacuum of space and with only the continual hum of the twin ion drives breaking the silence.

-- R. A. Salvatore, Vector Prime

Standing there, on the bridge of his Nebulon-B frigate, the pirate Urias Xhaxin clasped his cybernetic left hand to the small of his back with his right hand. He stared straight ahead at the tunnel of light into which his ship, the Free Lance, flew.

-- Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide I: Onslaught

Shedao Shai stood in his chamber, deep within the living ship Legacy of Torment. Tall and lean, long-limbed with hooks and barbs at wrist, elbow, knee, and heel, the Yuuzhan Vong warrior had pulled himself up to his full height and held his open hands out away from his sides.

-- Michael A. Stackpole, Dark Tide II: Ruin

If the system's primary was distressed by the events that had transpired on and about the fourth closest of its brood, it betrayed noting to the naked eye. Saturating the local space with golden radiance, the star was as unperturbed now as it was before the battle had begun.

-- James Luceno, Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial

It was morning in Gyndine's capital city, though that fact was scarcely evident to anyone on the surface. The rising sun, when glimpsed at all, was a blanched disk behind roiling smoke belched from flaming forests and buildings.

-- James Luceno, Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse

Lieutenant Jaina Solo rolled her x-wing fighter up on its port S-foil and shoved her throttle forward. A seed-shaped Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper had been harrying her wingmate.

-- Kathy Tyers, Balance Point

Outside the medcenter viewport, a ragged crescent of white twinkles known as the Drall's Hat drooped across the violet sky, its lower tip slashing through the Ronto to touch a red star named the Eye of the Pirate. The constellations above Corellia had not changed since Han Solo was a child, when he had spent his nights contemplating the galactic depths and dreaming of life as a starship captain.

-- Troy Denning, "Recovery"

Dorsk 82 ducked behind the stone steps of the quay, just in time to dodge a blaster bolt from across the water. "Hurry on board my ship," he told his charges. "They've found us again."

-- Greg Keyes, Edge of Victory I: Conquest

Blood, drifting in starlight. That was the first thing Jacen Solo saw when he opened his eyes. It had beaded into what looked, in the dim, like polished black pearls reflecting the ancient starlight filtering through the transparisteel a meter or so away.

-- Greg Keyes, Edge of Victory II: Rebirth

The dark sliver of a distant starliner crept into view, a blue needle of ion efflux pushing it across the immense sweep of a brilliant orange sun. Like a million such suns in the Core region alone, this one lacked any world with a civilization or even a sapient species, and it was too inconsequential for any name except an obsolete Imperial survey number. With so much emptiness, so many planets untouched, it seemed to Jaina Solo that there should have been no need for fighting, that there should have been room for all.

-- Troy Denning, Star by Star

A sunrise corona limned one edge of the planet Myrkr, setting its vast northern forests alight with a verdant glow. Viewed from space, the planet appeared as lush and green as Yuuzhan'tat, the long-lost homeworld of Yuuzhan Vong legend.

-- Elaine Cunningham, Dark Journey

"A god cannot die," Charat Kraal said. "Therefore it can have no fear of death. So who is braver, a god or a mortal?"

--Aaron Allston, Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream

Jaina Solo banked her X-wing starfighter into as tight a turn as she could endure. The g-forces of her maneuver crushed her into her seat, but she called upon the force to protect her, to keep her centimeters away from the edge of blackout.

-- Aaron Allston, Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand

Outside the universe, there is nothing. This nothing is called hyperspace. A tiny bubble of existence hangs in the nothing. This bubble is called a ship.

-- Matthew Stover, Traitor

As she sat in the chair that was hers by right of death, she raised her eyes to the cold faraway stars. Checklists buzzed distantly in her mind and her hands moved over the controls, but her thoughts flew elsewhere, amid the chill infinitude. Searching...

-- Walter Jon Williams, Destiny's Way

Saba Sebatyne knew the moment she emerged from hyperspace that Barab I was burning. Where the planet normally displayed a cloudy, gray face lit the glow of its primary, a sullen red dwarf, her infrared sensitive eyes now saw a fiery inferno.

-- Sean Williams and Shane Dix, Force Heretic I: Remnant

The man who was no longer a man stood before an alien who was not what it seemed. "Everything is in place," the man said.

--Sean Williams and Shane Dix, Force Heretic II: Refugee

Neither moved; neither spoke. They stared unflinchingly into each other's eyes. Surrounding her, hidden by shadows, Tahiri could sense an alien landscape.

-- Sean Williams and Shane Dix, Force Heretic III: Reunion

Three kilometers beneath the surface of Yuuzhan'tar--the world once known as Courscant--the sound of chanting drifted up a shaft nearly as wide as it was deep, the melancholy strains yearning toward the few distant starts that could be seen from the bottom. In the pale blue light of lumen reeds, the faces of the chanters appeared ravaged, their bodies misshapen.

-- Greg Keyes, The Final Prophecy

Selvaris, faintly green against a sweep of white-hot stars, and with only one tiny moon for companionship, looked like the loneliest of planets. Almost five years into a war that had seen the annihilation of peaceful worlds, the disruption of major hyperlanes, the fall and occupation of Coruscant itself, that fact that such a backwater place could rise to sudden significance was perhaps the clearest measure of the frightful shadow the Yuuzhan Vong had cast across the galaxy.

-- James Luceno, The Unifying Force

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