Reckless road guns n roses6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() The book is well designed and is a must for any GNR fan. Interviews with over 20 people including band members, roadies strippers, girlfriends, Tom Zutaut the A&R guy that signed the band, Mike Clink the guy who produced the record, Steve Thompson & Mike Barbiero the guys that mixed the record, and close friends of the band. This book covers the first 50 gigs that Guns N Roses did. Containing original gig memorabilia including show flyers, ticket stubs, set lists, press clippings, and handwritten lyrics as well as in-depth interviews with band members and the people closest to them, Reckless Road offers an explicit, first-person perspective readers won't find anywhere else. ![]() The candid shots contained in Reckless Road, taken as the band toured in 1985-1987 and made the legendary album Appetite for Destruction, capture their raw, blood-sweat-and-tears performances as well as their intimate moments. His friend became the legendary guitarist Slash, and Canter found himself witnessing the creation of Guns N' Roses front and center. His friend became the legendary guitarist Slash, and Canter found himself witnessing the creation of Guns N Roses front and center. When teenager and amateur photographer Marc Canter set out to document his best friend Saul Hudson's rise as a rock guitarist in 1982, he never imagined he was documenting the genesis of the next great rock 'n' roll band. ![]() Reckless Road: Guns N' Roses and The Mak For. ![]()
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![]() Lord of Light, his third novel, also won the Hugo award and was nominated for the Nebula award. His first novel This Immortal, serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the title “.And Call Me Conrad,” won the Hugo Award for best novel. He published more than forty novels in his lifetime. Roger Zelazny was a science fiction and fantasy writer, a six time Hugo Award winner, and a three time Nebula Award Winner. And if he does Wakim cannot even imagine how that will change everything. Wakim leaves the House of the Dead intent on carrying out his mission to destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand, but he has a second, personal mission.to find his true name. Wakim has been commanded by his master Anubus to find and destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand. ![]() ![]() That name is Wakim, but Wakim knows that this name is not his true name not the name that he carried with him in life. In the House of the Dead he has been given a name. ![]() The luminous dead book6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive - she must confront the ghosts in her own head.īut how come she can't shake the feeling she's being followed? Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. Īs Gyre descends, little inconsistencies - missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em's motivations - drive her out of her depths. ![]() Em knows all about Gyre's falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash - and a lash. Keeping her sane.Įm sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre's body with drugs or withholding critical information to "ensure the smooth operation" of her expedition. She also thought that the fat paycheck - enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother - meant she'd get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. A thrilling, atmospheric debut with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival. ![]() Ray bradbury r is for rocket6/12/2023 ![]() Some of the stories are about the delightful and terrifying pull of space travel.So, back to Ray Bradbury – writing science fiction in the 1950s – when manned landings were still an unrealised dream. But it was the Americans who set the first human on the moon when, in 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped off the ladder of the Eagle and placed his foot in the dust of the Sea of Tranquillity. During the 1960s, the American efforts to reach the moon were stepped up and by the second half of the decade, successful soft-landings on the moon were being achieved by both nations. In 1959, after multiple failures, the Russians managed to achieve a crash-landing of an unmanned craft on the lunar surface. ![]() ![]() So, it is fitting that the next book in my ‘have read recently’ pile is Ray Bradbury’s collection of short stories about space flight.īradbury wrote most of these stories during the 1950s, the decade when the Russian Sputnik programme began. ![]() Today I heard the news: Neil Armstrong, the first man-on-the-moon, died yesterday. ![]() The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell6/12/2023 ![]() ![]() She takes us from the modern-day reenactment of an Indian massacre to the Mohegan Sun casino, from old-timey Puritan poetry, to a Mayflower-themed waterslide. ![]() Sarah Vowell's special brand of armchair history makes the bizarre and esoteric fascinatingly relevant and fun. What was the Puritans' pet name for the Pope? The Great Whore of Babylon. Was Rhode Island's architect, Roger Williams, America's founding freak or the father of the First Amendment? Same difference. ![]() Was Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop a communitarian, a Christ-like Christian, or conformity's tyrannical enforcer? Answer: Yes! Their story is filled with pamphlet feuds, witty courtroom dramas, and bloody vengeance. What was this great political enterprise all about? Who were these people who are considered the philosophical, spiritual, and moral ancestors of our nation? The people she finds are highly literate, deeply principled, and surprisingly feisty. Even today, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means - and what it should mean. ![]() New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America in The Wordy Shipmates. ![]() The Passage by Justin Cronin6/11/2023 ![]() The story jumps back and forth between the past and the present, as the survivors from the first book try to find a way to defeat the Virals once and for all. The second book, The Twelve, delves deeper into the origins of the virus and the twelve original test subjects who were turned into Virals. The story follows a group of survivors, including a young girl named Amy, as they struggle to survive in a world overrun by these creatures. ![]() ![]() The first book in the series, The Passage, begins in the near future when a top-secret government experiment goes horribly wrong and unleashes a virus that turns people into Virals. The series is comprised of three books: The Passage, The Twelve, and The City of Mirrors. The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin is a post-apocalyptic horror series that takes place in a world overrun by vampire-like creatures known as Virals. ![]() My Secret by Mallory West6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Rowe points out that the most expensive path is the one that is sold to everyone as they grow up, something that he is working hard to change. They don’t see vocational school or trade school as viable careers paths and the jobs that these programs lead to are seeing the largest numbers of employment opportunities. Rowe believes that the current generation of teens and young adults has been taught to only value jobs that require a college education. The word has gotten out and people are really taking a hard look at learning a skill that’s in demand,” he continued. And I’m telling you, I’ve never seen the headlines catch up to us as the way they are right now. “At my little foundation, mikeroweWORKS, for the last fifteen years we’re been talking about this. We’ve got $1.7 trillion of student loans outstanding that we’re being asked to pick up the slack for and we’ve got a generation of kids who are simply not trained for the opportunity that exist,” Rowe said. ![]() “Here we sit, we’ve got eleven-and-a-half million open jobs, most of which don’t require a four-year degree. Mike Rowe recently talked about alternatives to a four-year degree as tuition prices continue to skyrocket and fears of a recession loom. Mike Rowe, Blue-Collar Work Should Be Appreciated by More Americans ![]() The salesman arthur miller6/11/2023 ![]() Thus people will gain a greater understanding of what is wrong with society, and will be able to improve it. When a younger and better salesman comes along, men like Willy are almost always doomed.īut by placing this in front of the audience and dramatising it for them, Miller invites his audience to question the wrongs within modern American society. Capitalism’s dog-eat-dog attitude is at least partly responsible, since it leads weary and worn-out men like Willy to dream of paying off their mortgage and having enough money, while simultaneously making the achievement of that task as difficult as possible. In the process of doing this, and attaining his dignity, the tragic hero often loses his life, but there is something affirmative about the events leading up to this final act, because the audience will be driven to evaluate what is wrong with society that it could destroy a man – a man willing to take a moral stand and evaluate himself justly – in the way that it has.ĭoes Willy Loman deserve to be pushed to take his own life just so his family can pay the bills? No, so there must be something within society that is at fault. ![]() ![]() But contrary to what we might expect, there is something positive and even affirmative about tragedy, as Arthur Miller views the art form.įor Miller, in ‘Tragedy and the Common Man’, theatrical tragedy is driven by ‘Man’s total compunction to evaluate himself justly’. ![]() Salvage the bones by jesmyn ward6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The "black heart of Bois Sauvage" isn't all rotten, though. The local boys of Bois Sauvage scrap among themselves, and settle these squabbles by way of dogfights: secretive battles held deep within the woods that are nightmarish in their violence, like scenes from the Greek myths Esch reads compulsively in bed. ![]() Alcohol turns Daddy from a vacant, shiftless figure into a mean drunk who doesn't like being contradicted. ![]() Often this physicality lurches into violence. Ward is astonishingly attentive to the body, from Esch's nausea and permanently bursting bladder to the light-reflecting, gorgeous skin of her beloved Manny, Skeetah's best friend and the unwilling father of her child-to-be. This bloody, graphic scene sets the tone for an all-pervading physicality. Randall, the eldest, is hoping for a basketball scholarship, while Skeetah is obsessed with his pitbull China, who gives birth to a litter of valuable puppies. The older boys have more productive hobbies. Junior, who never knew his mother, seems at times more animal than human, a touch-hungry changeling who spends most of his days burrowing in the earth beneath the house. The sheets are so dirty that "we'd wake up often in the middle of the night, itching, scratching a shin, an ankle". Food is strictly rationed, and a meal of squirrel, shot in the forest and barbecued, is gulped down with stolen bread. Details seep out like involuntary revelations. She's so tough, in fact, that it takes a while to realise how deprived these motherless children are. ![]() Yotsuba&!, Vol. 7 by Kiyohiko Azuma6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() I mean I can honestly see this all happening in the real world, and no I dont mean all the specifics but the antics and the overall personality of the characters is very realistic and believable. The main reason you like these characters, and my favorite part of this series, is how realistic these characters are. She also ends up meeting a very colorful cast of characters who you will find yourself becoming very attached to over the course of the series. It's about a little girl named Yotsuba who, through a series of hilarious circumstances, always manages to find herself in some kind of trouble, whether it involves her running off by herself or ,to later, running away from the very neighbors who offered to help and find her. Okay, I know it's a comedy and all but honestly it's a great series for all the ages. I love this manga, to me it is a timeless series that is, and always shall be, amazing. ![]() |