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Stephen King has been scaring the spit out of us for half a century now. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of his first novel, “Carrie,” the scalding tale of a teenage girl whose pyrotechnic powers are provoked by high school cruelty. Since then, King, 76, has published more than 70 bestselling books of fiction, sometimes as many as three in one year, dozens of which have become movies or TV series. He’s conjured up our chills with small-town vampires, haunted hotels, possessed cars, revenant pets — much of the success of his fiction grows from his ability to anchor horro...
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How many books are collecting dust on your shelf, waiting for the day when you finally have time for them? If you can't see yourself reading them any time soon, then you may prefer this option: cheat and read summaries instead. Blinkist summarizes the key messages from books into 15 minutes of reading time. The app's library contains more than 4,000 titles in English in 27 categories, including health, culture, economics, love, sex and technology. If you don't find the right book for you, you can enter the desired title in the search bar and make your own suggestion to the curator team. Around...
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Mr Fib and Little Miss Surprise are the latest characters to join the "Mr Men & Little Miss" children’s book series, it has been announced. The two new stories will be published on September 12, more than 50 years after Mr Tickle, the first Mr Men book, was released in 1971. The series was conceived by cartoonist and illustrator Roger Hargreaves, who died in 1988, and has been continued by his son Adam, who has added new characters to the collection. Mr Fib fibs to impress people, but his fibs are getting bigger and bigger, and one day he goes too far and his friends are upset, according to pu...
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Stephen King, author of some 40 terrifying novels plus more than 100 short stories, novellas, screenplays, poems, essays, columns and non-fiction books. But in the epilogue to his latest book, King says he still doesn't really understand the act of writing. Sometimes he sees the words in front of him before he writes them - every dot, every comma. "I don’t even understand why people need stories, or why I - among many others - feel the need to write them. All I know is that the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind and bonding with people who don’t exist seems to be a part of...
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Tall, dazzling and with an unforgettable moustache, Tom Selleck is known to millions as the private detective Thomas Magnum from the television series that made his name famous. Celebrated in the '80s as one of the most attractive men in the world, he played the tanned, laid-back star clad in bright Hawaiian shirts, racing around solving crimes in a red Ferrari. We now know he never intended to become an actor, the Hollywood star tells us in his autobiography "You Never Know," released in early May. "I'd never had the slightest interest in acting. Ever," Selleck writes in the book. "I was very...
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Visitors to the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich are in for a special kind of exhibition of visual art created by Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk titled "The Consolation of Objects." The title is from a chapter in Pamuk's novel of lost love, "The Museum of Innocence," in which the wealthy but forlorn Kemal takes solace in collecting items and objects that had belonged to his cousin Füsun. His collection becomes at once an obsession and a consolation, and in the end it numbers thousands of objects. Pamuk, 71, wrote the novel - published in 2008 - at the same time that he himself was ...
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Every reality needs fiction. Pedro Almodóvar learnt this much from his mother, who once worked as a letter reader in her village, imaginatively embellishing the local correspondence. In the title story to a new book of stories he has described as a "fragmentary autobiography", Almodóvar narrates his final farewell to his mother. "The Last Dream" is one of 12 stories in which the world-famous filmmaker behind "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her" proves himself to be also a talented literary writer. Written in widely varying genres, the stories come from very different periods of the 74-year-...
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