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Lonely Leitner Reading List

The full list of submissions for the Lonely Leitner bracket. Bold titles are ones which were accepted to appear in the bracket. Synopses and propaganda can be found below the cut. Be warned, however, that these may contain spoilers!

Andersen, Hans Christian: The Snow Queen

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn: Nobody Basye, Dale E.: Snivel Borges, Jorge Luis: The House of Astarion Bradbury, Ray: There Will Come Soft Rains

Dazai, Osamu: No Longer Human Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations

Ellis, Bret Easton: Less Than Zero

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby Freeman, Megan E.: Alone

Glass, Merrill: But You Didn't Goss, James: Dead of Winter

Harlow, Harry F.: The Nature of Love Hesse, Herman: Demian Hopkins, David: Thebe and the Angry Red Eye

Jackson, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Koenig, John: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Lem, Stanisław: Solaris Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street

Márquez, Gabriel García: One Hundred Years of Solitude Melville, Herman: Bartleby, the Scrivener Moorcock, Michael: The Black Corridor

Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Paver, Michelle: Dark Matter: A Ghost Story Penning, Michael: Solitude Plath, Sylvia: The Bell-Jar Poe, Edgar Allan: The Light-House Poe, Edgar Allan: The Raven Poe, Edgar Allan: Alone

Rosenfeld, Morris: My Boy Rudnick, Elizabeth: A Frozen Heart Ryan, A.J.: Red River Seven

Satrapi, Marjane: Chicken with Plums Schwab, Victoria: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue Shelley, Mary: The Last Man Sigsgaard, Jens: Palle Alone in the World Sims, Jonathan: Family Business

Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Children of Ruin Thoreau, Henry David: Walden Todhunter, Jean Mizer: Cipher in the Snow

Venable, Lynn: Time Enough At Last von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: The Sorrows of Young Werther

Weir, Andrew: The Martian Wells, H.G.: The Invisible Man

Andersen, Hans Christian: The Snow Queen

Magic ice gets into a boy's heart and makes him incapable of caring for others.

Barnes, Jennifer Lynn: Nobody

There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away.

That’s why they make the perfect assassins.

The Institute finds these people when they’re young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated.

Sixteen-year-old Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute’s monitoring. But now they’ve ID’ed her and send seventeen-year-old Nix to remove her. Yet the moment he lays eyes on her, he can’t make the hit. It’s as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are—because no one else ever notices them.

Basye, Dale E.: Snivel

Dale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo to Snivel, the circle reserved for crybabies, for their latest hilarious escapade in Heck. Snivel is a camp—a bummer camp—a dismal place where it's always raining, and Unhappy Campers are besieged by swarms of strange mosquitoes that suck the color right out of them. Soon the Fausters discover that some Unhappy Campers have been disappearing. So after Marlo gets chosen for a special project and never comes back, Milton makes up his mind to find her and all the missing children.

Borges, Jorge Luis: The House of Astarion

A rewrite of the myth of the Minotaur. The son of the King lives alone in a labrynth, lost and forsaken, waiting for someone to save him. He leaves the corpses of the sacrifices as a way to find his way out. When someone finally finds him, it will be his executioner.

Bradbury, Ray: There Will Come Soft Rains

This a short story that has been adapted many times, including into a graphic novel. It takes place post nuclear apocalypse, where a futuristic home does its daily routine, despite the devastation outside. At some point, the family dog, riddled with tumors, crawls into the house and dies. It's very depressing. It implies the house would have continued doing this routine forever, except it catches on fire. With no one to stop it, it burns down.

Dazai, Osamu: No Longer Human

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.

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It is a novel that delves into the dark and introspective journey of a young man named Yozo. Through a series of confessional notes, Yozo reveals his struggles with alienation, self-destructive behavior, and the inability to connect with others. The original title translates as "Disqualified as a human being" or "A failed human". The book was published one month after Dazai's suicide at the age of 38.

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“Whenever I was asked what I wanted my first impulse was to answer "Nothing." The thought went through my mind that it didn't make any difference, that nothing was going to make me happy.”

“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”

Dickens, Charles: Great Expectations

Miss Havisham is a Lonely avatar working to disconnect Pip from his family with the goal of maximizing his heartbreak at the end.

Ellis, Bret Easton: Less Than Zero

When Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college, he re-enters a landscape of limitless privilege and absolute moral entropy, where everyone drives Porsches, dines at Spago, and snorts mountains of cocaine. He tries to renew feelings for his girlfriend, Blair, and for his best friend from high school, Julian, who is careering into hustling and heroin. Clay's holiday turns into a dizzying spiral of desperation that takes him through the relentless parties in glitzy mansions, seedy bars, and underground rock clubs and also into the seamy world of L.A. after dark.

You know how canonically, one of the Lonely's manifestations is becoming alone in a crowd full of faceless people? This is that, but in book form.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby

The story of a guy who is simultaneously so desperate for love that he transformed himself into a whole new person just to be worthy of the woman he loves, and also so self conscious about it that he can't even approach her, only dwell on the memories of how they used to be. There's so much longing and disconnection, it's nuts.

Freeman, Megan E.: Alone

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She’s alone—left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own. Her only companions are a Rottweiler named George and all the books she can read. After a rough start, Maddie learns to trust her own ingenuity and invents clever ways to survive in a place that has been deserted and forgotten. As months pass, she escapes natural disasters, looters, and wild animals. But Maddie’s most formidable enemy is the crushing loneliness she faces every day.

Glass, Merrill: But You Didn't

While the original version is more focused on grief, it has been reworked several times over the years. This version appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, and is more in line with the themes of the Lonely. This version of the poem has the narrator repeatedly ask one of his parents to play with him, ending each request with the words "but you didn't." It ends, "My country called me to war; you asked me to come home safely... but I didn't!"

Goss, James: Dead of Winter

Synopsis: ""The Dead are not alone. There is something in the mist and it talks to them."

In Dr Bloom's clinic at a remote spot on the Italian coast, at the end of the 18th century, nothing is ever quite what it seems. Maria is a lonely little girl with no one to play with. She writes letters to her mother from the isolated resort where she is staying. She tells of the pale English aristocrats and the mysterious Russian nobles and their attentive servants. She tells of intrigue and secrets, and she tells of strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. She writes about the enigmatic Mrs Pond who arrives with her husband and her physician, and who will change everything.

What she doesn't tell her mother is the truth that everyone knows and no one says – that the only people who come here do so to die."

Why it's Lonely: Well, there's mist over the sea, hallucinatory images of missing loved ones that lure you into the mist to drown you, mist in the characters' memories, and did I mention the mist?

Harlow, Harry F.: The Nature of Love

A research report on the results of the author's (highly controversial) maternal-separation, dependency needs, and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys. If you have ever read or heard the words "Cloth Mother and Wire Mother" or "the Pit of Despair": Yes, this is that guy. Yes, this is THAT study. Some researchers cite these experiments as a factor in the rise of the animal liberation movement in the United States. Paradoxically, his darkest experiments may have the brightest legacy, for by studying "neglect" and its life-altering consequences, Harlow confirmed love's central role in shaping not only how we feel but also how we think, and how devastating the effects of isolation are on the brain.

Hesse, Herman: Demian

A brilliant psychological portrait of a troubled young man's quest for self-awareness, this coming-of-age novel achieved instant critical and popular acclaim upon its 1919 publication. A landmark in the history of 20th-century literature, it reflects the author's preoccupation with the duality of human nature and the pursuit of spiritual fullfillment.

Hopkins, David: Thebe and the Angry Red Eye

A furry sci-fi novella originally published in chapters on Hopkins' page at Fur Affinity in 2014; in 2015, it also appeared in The Furry Future, a compilation of Science Fiction stories curated by the late Fred Patten that feature anthro animals.

In a future where furries have replaced humans, the Hildebrand Corporation initiates an ambitious plan to send a starship called the Hildebrand One on a ten-year expedition to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, in search of extraterrestrial life. A crew of seven is chosen, and their voyage goes well until the ship actually reaches the Gas Giant, where it is damaged by an unpredictable radiation surge. This causes a series of disasters that culminates with the ship crashing on another Jovian moon, Thebe. By the time it's all over, most of the characters are dead; the only survivors are a feline crew member named Thomas and a tomato plant called Oscar. Most of the story is about Thomas trying to cope with his terrible loneliness and learning that living is about more than survival.

Jackson, Shirley: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

The novel is written in the voice of eighteen-year-old Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, who lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle on an estate. Six years before the events of the novel, the Blackwood family experienced a tragedy that left the three survivors isolated from their small village.

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sisters constance and merricat blackwood are ostracized from the village because of the dark event in their past. they prefer the isolated life and even stay to live in their house after it burns down leaving only two rooms intact. merricat has intricate rituals to ensure that their isolated lifestyle remains undisturbed, including burying talismans and nailing them to trees, checking the fence, building additional hiding spots. at the end of the book they stop contacting the villagers at all, hide if someone is trying to visit them, and as time goes on the village starts treating them like witches or spirits - kids tell creepy tales and dare each other to try touching their front porch, adults leave food and supplies as offerings

Koenig, John: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Have you ever wondered about the lives of each person you pass on the street, realizing that everyone is the main character in their own story, each living a life as vivid and complex as your own? That feeling has a name: “sonder.” Or maybe you’ve watched a thunderstorm roll in and felt a primal hunger for disaster, hoping it would shake up your life. That’s called “lachesism.” Or you were looking through old photos and felt a pang of nostalgia for a time you’ve never actually experienced. That’s “anemoia.” If you’ve never heard of these terms before, that’s because they didn’t exist until John Koenig wrote this book. It's a dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express.

Lem, Stanisław: Solaris

This book is soaked in loneliness. It follows three men who avoid each other’s company on a dilapidated research station on a distant titular planet - Solaris. It is covered by an ocean of gelatinous substance with no solid land in sight, and is later revealed to be an alien. A single alien, a vast extraterrestrial intelligence the size of a planet. Lem wrote 'the peculiarity of those phenomena seems to suggest that we observe a kind of rational activity, but the meaning of this seemingly rational activity of the Solarian Ocean is beyond the reach of human beings' and I just cannot help myself but think what a lonely existence that must be. A planet-sized being, unable to communicate with probably the first other living beings it has ever encountered. It creates landscapes and people out of white seafoam from the memories of the research crew, if their flying cars get too close to the dark viscous surface. It reaches into the minds and pulls up the most emotional of memories to awkwardly reconstruct them into a haunt that will follow a person until destroyed. This quote also got me thinking about the communication between different life forms, and that even if humanity ever makes contact with aliens they might be too incomprehensible for us to grasp. Are we alone in the universe? And does it even matter if we are alone or not, if communication and understanding is impossible?

Lewis, Sinclair: Main Street

Sort of a literary forebear to the TMA episode Cul-de-Sac in its brutal portrayal of small town American life as the narrators attempts to connect with her neighbors and revitalize her town are met with failure and scorn.

Márquez, Gabriel García: One Hundred Years of Solitude

It tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the fictitious town of Macondo. Alongside the story of the Buendía family, there are an abundance of vignettes recounting both the everyday and the supernatural occurrences that shape the lives of the inhabitants of Macondo.

To be honest, it could be argued that there's a little of every entity here, from the Slaughter to the Flesh (The baby born with a pig's tail comes to mind...), but the word Solitude isn't in the title for nothing, it is the most dominant theme in the book. Macondo gets founded in the remote jungles of the Colombian rainforest. Isolated from the rest of the world, the Buendías grow to be increasingly solitary and selfish. Throughout the novel it seems as if no character can find true love or escape the destructiveness of their own egocentricity, and even if they find one it will end in tragedy in one way or another.

Many characters end up isolated from the rest of the world and each other in several different ways. There are several examples that I think would fit the Lonely, like Rebeca, who starts as a semi-feral child who's unable to comunicate with her adoptive family because of a language barrier and ends as a bitter old woman who ends her days self-isolating from everything and everyone by choosing to live in seclusion on her mansion after the untimely death of her husband, keeping her family outside at gunpoint when they try to reconnect with her. There's also how the patriach of the family goes insane and is tied to a chestnut tree like a dog until his death. There's Coronel Aureliano Buendía, who shuts himself in his room making gold fish out of coins that he then sells for more coins to make into more gold fish. And just... so many more examples of characters living and dying in sheer loneliness either because of tragic circumstances or by their own choice. And then there's the ending.

"(...)because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth."

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One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad and alive with unforgettable men and women—brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul—this novel is a masterpiece in the art of fiction.

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"The book follows the story of the Buendía family and the town they create, Macondo, from its foundation to its end. Of course, it is told in a non-linear fashion with every generation having the same few names, as well as the same basic attributes (except for a pair of twins whose names are thought to have been accidentally switched at some point)."

It's a story about a family that have terrible trouble connecting and communicating with other people. Like unlucky, unintentional Lukases.

Melville, Herman: Bartleby, the Scrivener

A man who lives on his own terms, disconnected from society. Opportunities are laid before him -- work, friendship, life -- but he denies them all. If he cannot live by his own terms, he refuses to live at all. This cautionary tale warns readers against too much independence from the people around them. Vote for Bartleby! Unless, of course, you would prefer not to.

Moorcock, Michael: The Black Corridor

Space isolation horror! A man is released from cryosleep to take his solo shift making sure the ship runs properly. For 25 years.

Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four

"The book is set in London, the chief city of Airstrip One and part of the superpower of Oceania. Life sucks. Oceania is ruled by the totalitarian regime of "the Party", personified by the omnipresent figure of "Big Brother". Standards of living are low due to the Forever War Oceania is engaged in alongside their ally Eurasia against Eastasia (or is it the other way around?). Sex is banned for all Party members except for procreation, and only between state-approved couplings.(...)"

The party loves destroying human relations. Everybody should be suspicious of everybody else. There should be no romantic love no friendship no nothing. And to get out of the harshest punishment you need to sell out somebody in your place. This is a lonely Leithner.

Paver, Michelle: Dark Matter: A Ghost Story

January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely, and desperate to change his life, so when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, but the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice: stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return--when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...

Penning, Michael: Solitude

The forest has never been more deadly...

Megan Danforth thought she knew the dangers of the wilderness, but she was wrong. When a little girl goes missing deep in the woods, the young forest ranger must put her own demons aside and turn to an infamous hermit for help. But as secrets are revealed and the clock ticks down, Megan realizes the man she's relying on to save the girl's life may have ties to her own troubled past. He wasn't alone out there in forest. Something evil was with him, and it may have driven him to kill.

Can Megan uncover the truth and bring the lost child home before it's too late, or will the darkness haunting the forest consume them all?

Plath, Sylvia: The Bell-Jar

The book describes a depressed young woman who feels alienated from the misogynistic world and expectations it puts on her. She cannot understand the motivations of people to live, and in turn people do not understand (or acknowledge) her struggle with mental health and sexism.

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Light-House

The title of this short story is unofficial, as Poe did not finish writing it before his death. A diary of a lighthouse keeper with descriptions of sea, weather, and the worrying state of the structure. In the entry for the third day he remarks that the foundation seems to be chalk. The next entry has a date but no text.

Poe, Edgar Allan: The Raven

It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a talking raven. The lover, often identified as a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further antagonize the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore".

Poe, Edgar Allan: Alone

From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a most stormy life—was drawn From ev’ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still— From the torrent, or the fountain— From the red cliff of the mountain— From the sun that ’round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold— From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by— From the thunder, and the storm— And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view—

Rosenfeld, Morris: My Boy

A brief poem narrated by a father who has to work so much that he never sees his little son awake.

Rudnick, Elizabeth: A Frozen Heart

A novel adaptation of Disney's 'Frozen' which reveals and unpacks Prince Hans' backstory as he changes from a decent young man who abhors his family's violence, manipulations, and abuse, to the villain who uses all of those tactics to take advantage of Princess Anna, as in the film. He realizes that his behavior is abhorrent, but his need to be loved and accepted by his father and brothers outweighs his sense of decency, and he does whatever he feels is necessary to take the throne of Arendelle.

Ryan, A.J.: Red River Seven

Seven strangers. One mission. Infinite horror.

A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of who or where he is. He's not alone - there are six others, each with a unique set of skills. None of them can remember their names. All of them possess a gun.

When a message appears on the onboard computer - Proceeding to Point A - the group agrees to work together to survive whatever is coming. But as the boat moves through the mist-shrouded waters, divisions begin to form. Who is directing them and to what purpose? Why can't they remember anything?

And what are the screams they can hear beyond the mist?

Satrapi, Marjane: Chicken with Plums

"In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new instrument. His beloved tar has been broken. But no matter what tar he tries, none of them sound right. Brokenhearted, Nasser Ali Khan decides that life is no longer worth living. He takes to his bed, renouncing the world and all of its pleasures. This is the story of the eight days he spends preparing to surrender his soul."

Nasser is lonely and disconnected from most of the people in his life and stuck in a loveless marriage. There is also the real reason he decides to die.

Spoilers: Nasser got his whole creative drive from unfulfilled love to a woman he was not allowed to marry. Yet when he meets her on the street after many years she pretends not to recognize him. This breaks his heart completely and makes him unable to play his instrument leading to his decision to die. So he decides to die due to lack of love i.e. loneliness.

Schwab, Victoria: The Invisible Life of Addie Larue

France, 1714: In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever - and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets.

Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

Shelley, Mary: The Last Man

At the novel's climax, The Black Death has killed off all humans but the main protagonist, Lionel, plus Adrian, Clara and Evelyn. Evelyn, Lionel's son, dies of an illness (not the Plague, but typhus), then Adrian and Clara drown when a storm in the Adriatic wrecks the three's boat. Returning to shore and making his way to the deserted city of Rome, Lionel realises he is likely the last human left alive, and after another year passes without the evidence of any other humans, he resolves to live the rest of his life as a wanderer, motivated by the prospect of someone, or anyone, for that matter, still being alive on the now-decimated Earth.

Sigsgaard, Jens: Palle Alone in the World

This picture book is so famous in Denmark that "being/feeling Palle" is a very common and casual term for feeling alone. The book is essentially just about a young boy named Palle who wakes up and finds the entirety of Copenhagen completely void of people no matter where he goes. While he has fun at first, eating all the candy he wants, driving trains, he eventually despairs that he has no one to share these experiences with.

Sims, Jonathan: Family Business

“When Diya Burman's best friend Angie dies, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Wanting a fresh start, she joins Slough & Sons - a family firm that cleans up after the recently deceased.

Old love letters. Porcelain dolls. Broken trinkets. Clearing away the remnants of other people's lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things. Things that get harder and harder to write off as merely her grieving imagination. All is not as it seems with the Slough family. Why won't they speak about their own recent loss? And who is the strange man that keeps turning up at their jobs?

If Diya's not careful, she might just end up getting buried under the family tree.”

A book all about memory, grief, forgetting, and the forgotten.

Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Children of Ruin

Thirty-one light years from Earth, a fraction of humanity's terraforming project survives the collapse of civilisation. When the universe falls silent, the five remaining scientists turn their attention to the planets below. Disra Senkovi continues the mission, isolated from his crewmates as his engineered aquatic life grows increasingly erratic, while the others study the planet Nod's seemingly harmless fauna, gathering data for no one to read. Their research abruptly halts when a native parasite jumps the gap between alien and human, devouring the minds of its hosts in an attempt to understand them. Senkovi, the mission's sole survivor, spends the last century of his life protecting the mutated denizens of his terraformed planet, whose civilisation he can no longer comprehend.

It's a book about isolation, literal and metaphorical; about incompatibility, inter- and intraspecific. It's about the fear that communication barriers can never be broken, about suffering that arises not from malice but misunderstanding. It's about the aching solitude we inflict on ourselves.

Thoreau, Henry David: Walden

Let's get this straight -- the whole Walden trip was kind of a farce. Thoreau was close enough to his home the whole time for his mom to bring his meals and do his laundry. Nevertheless, the book has inspired many readers to try and similarly divorce themselves from society and 'live off the land', creating situations of isolation and solitude.

Todhunter, Jean Mizer: Cipher in the Snow

It's a short story about a boy who asks to get off the school bus and keels over dead in the snow for no discernible reason; it then follows the teacher who has been asked to write the obituary because apparently he was the kid's favorite teacher despite having practically no idea who he is. He can't find ten people who know the kid well enough to go to the funeral and it's implied that his death was just because of loneliness. The story was later made into a short film in 1973 and, despite the main conflict/emphasis of the film being on the neglect of his parents and teachers, it wound up being used as an anti-bullying PSA for many students because apparently nothing says "be nice to your peers" like "if your parents don't love you enough you might just spontaneously kick the bucket".

Venable, Lynn: Time Enough At Last

The short story that formed the basis for the classic segment in The Twilight Zone. Henry Bemis wants to be left alone so he can fulfil his wish to read a book from cover to cover, and does so by shutting himself in a bank vault. When he leaves, he finds that an atomic bomb has struck, wiping out everyone he knew and possibly the rest of the world. He plans to take advantage of the solitude by reading everything he can in the remains of the library, but his glasses (bespoke due to his complicated prescription) fall off and break, forcing him to confront what it truly means to be entirely alone.

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: The Sorrows of Young Werther

The story unfolds through a series of letters penned by the eponymous protagonist, Werther, and mainly chronicles his experiences in the small town of Wahlheim. After he falls madly in love with an young woman named Lotte, who is engaged to someone else, Werther gradually becomes more emotional and less mentally stable, not only because of said unrequited love (He in fact spends part of the novel willingly far away from her) but because he feels increasingly withdrawn from a world and a society he has grown to deeply resent.

The novel was one of the earliest works of literature to generate a recognizable fandom, creating a dress fashion. It was also one of the first to be blamed, not without cause, to have a negative effect on some of its readers; psychologists therefore continue to debate about the "Werther effect", meaning a work of art encouraging consumers to commit suicide. The "wave of suicides" following the novel was somewhat exaggerated, more recent studies indicate that there may only be about a dozen verifiable cases where the novel played a part. However, one of them was a friend of Goethe's, which probably was the reason why he published the revised edition of 1787.

Weir, Andrew: The Martian

Mark Watney is an astronaut who is part of the third manned mission to Mars. Soon after they land, the Martian weather gets too rough and the mission has to be abandoned. In the escape, Watney is struck down by a piece of debris and presumed dead, and left on the planet. However, he survives. With no obvious way to communicate with mission control, he has to use the limited resources on hand to survive until the next mission — which is years away.

Wells, H.G.: The Invisible Man

Griffin's invisibility resulted in increasingly strained relations with the people around him and society at large. Eventually, his isolation drove him beyond the constraints of social norms, leading him to murderous outbursts and destructive impulses.

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In light of the recent thing with the Gatsby and the public domain and all that, I have elected to put together a roadmap of notable works that will enter the public domain per US copyright law in the next few decades, up to 2060.

Each work will enter the domain at the beginning of the year it is listed under.

2022: Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne); The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

2023: The Colour Out of Space (H.P. Lovecraft)

2025: All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

2026: The Maltese Falcon (Dashiel Hammett); Last and First Men (Olaf Stapledon)

2027: The Whisperer in Darkness (H.P. Lovecraft)

2028: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

2030:  Murder on the Orient Express (Agatha Christie); Mary Poppins (P.L. Travers)

2031: Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)

2032: Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner); Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell); The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Lead); At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Shadow Out of Time (H.P. Lovecraft)

2033: Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck); The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)

2034: The Sword in the Stone (T. H. White); Appointment with Death and Hercule Poirot's Christmas (Agatha Christie)

2035: Finnegans Wake (James Joyce); The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck); Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Robert L. May); Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (T.S. Eliot); Murder Is Easy, And Then There Were None, and The Regatta Mystery (Agatha Christie)

2036: For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway); Lassie Come-Home (Eric Knight); The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)

2037: Curious George (Margret and H.A. Rey)

2039: The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry); The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (H.P. Lovecraft)

2041: Pippi Longstocking (Astrid Lindgren)

2043: Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann); A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)

2045: Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell); Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)

2046: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (C.S. Lewis); I, Robot (Isaac Asimov); Gormenghast (Mervyn Peake)

2047: The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger); Prince Caspian (C.S. Lewis)

2048: The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway); Charlotte’s Web (E. B. White); The Borrowers (Mary Norton); The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (C.S. Lewis)

2049: Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury); The Silver Chair (C.S. Lewis)

2050: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers (J.R.R. Tolkien); Lord of the Flies (William Golding); The Horse and His Boy (C.S. Lewis)

2051: The Return of the King (J.R.R. Tolkien); The Magician’s Nephew (C.S. Lewis); Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

2052: Old Yeller (Fred Gipson) The Last Battle (C.S. Lewis)

2053: Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand); The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Dr. Seuss)

2055: A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.); Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)

2056: To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee); One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and Green Eggs and Ham (Dr. Seuss)

2057: Catch-22 (Joseph Heller); Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein); Solaris (Stanislaw Lem); James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)

2058: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey); A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess); The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick); A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)

2059: Planet of the Apes (Pierre Boulle); Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak); Clifford the Big Red Dog (Norman Bridwell)

2060: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl); The Giving Tree (Shel Silverstein)

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Books read in 2020

Here's the full list of books I've read in 2020, with a small note of which were my favourites.

Fiction

The Snows of Kilimanjaro - Ernest Hemingway The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin ⭐️ The Book of Disquiet (pocket) - Fernando Pessoa Neuromancer - William Gibson The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald How Much Land Does a Man Need? - Leo Tolstoy The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells ⭐️ I, Robot - Isaac Asimov The Rest of the Robots - Isaac Asimov The Three Electroknights - Stanisław Lem Brave New World - Aldous Huxley Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig Não Pai - Daniel Blaufuks ⭐️ White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Animal Farm - George Orwell Hornblower and the Hotspur - C. S. Forester As Intermitências da Morte - José Saramago Anathem - Neal Stephenson ⭐️ Viagens na Minha Terra - Almeida Garrett The Penultimate Truth - Philip K. Dick The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu Limonov - Emmanuel Carrère The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Non-Fiction

It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson A Poor Collector's Guide to Buying Great Art - Erling Kagge Pricing Design - Dan Mall Fame - Andy Warhol Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell 24-Hour Wine Expert - Jancis Robinson No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference - Greta Thunberg The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels Portugal - Miguel Torga As Though I Had Wings - Chet Baker Let My People Go Surfing - Yvon Chouinard

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The Tragedy of "Tender Is the Night"

Pastor, teacher, and theater critic, Sheila R. Vitale, has managed activities at Living Epistles Ministries in Port Jefferson Station, New York, since establishing the teaching ministry in 1988. Sheila R. Vitale provides a variety of lectures and writings through her work at Living Epistles Ministries (LEM), including reviews of films such as "Tender Is the Night," based on the 1934 F. Scott Fitzgerald novel.

"Tender Is the Night" is the fourth novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, following "The Great Gatsby," and the final novel he completed during his lifetime. While it is highly regarded by modern literary critics, the inspiration, writing, and release of the book culminated in the unceremonious end of Fitzgerald’s literary career.

Fitzgerald had enjoyed both success and fame following his debut novel, This Side of Paradise. The author had a clear vision for his third book, Gatsby, which he worked on tirelessly as both a piece of art and ticket to continued commercial success. Although the novel is now regarded as one of the greatest works of American literature, the book was originally a commercial and critical failure, selling fewer than 20,000 copies.

Fitzgerald was personally and financially hurt by Gatsby’s reception and poured his heartache into his next novel, Tender Is the Night, which took nearly 9 years to complete. While writing the novel, Fitzgerald's personal and professional lives continued to unwind, with several problems making it onto the page. Fitzgerald’s growing alcoholism, for example, is shared by central character Dick Diver, while the mental health issues of his wife, Zelda Fitzgerald, is reflected in Diver’s spouse, Nicole.

Fitzgerald had to borrow money from his agent and editor while writing the book, in part to keep Zelda under hospital supervision in response to her suicidal and homicidal tendencies. Despite putting more time and effort into Tender Is the Night than any of his previous works and Fitzgerald's personal estimation that the book was his “masterwork,” it received no more fanfare or success than Gatsby.

Fitzgerald subsequently moved to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter. He failed to secure any credits and passed away prior to the completion of his fifth novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon.

To read LEM film reviews, please visit the organization online at livingepistles.org.

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Hoy cumple años Stephanie Zimbalist 61 años es una actriz estadounidense reconocida por su papel como Laura Holt en la serie de detectives Remington Steele. https://youtu.be/rhVc-7bQRr8 Hoy cumple años Paul Hogan 78 años es un actor, guionista y productor de cine y televisión australiano. Candidato a los premios Óscar y a los BAFTA, ganó un Globo de Oro al mejor actor de comedia o musical. Es conocido por sus intervenciones en películas como la sagaCocodrilo Dundee (1986-1988-2001) y Flipper(1996). https://youtu.be/JrRfx71_4CQ Hoy cumple años Matt Damon 47 añoses un actor, guionista y filántropo estadounidense. Su carrera se inició a raíz del éxito de la película Good Will Hunting (1997), a partir de un guion escrito con su amigo Ben Affleck. Fue ganador del premio Óscar al mejor guion original por Good Will Hunting y nominado a mejor actor por el mismo trabajo.Damon desde entonces ha participado en películas de éxito comercial como Saving Private Ryan (1998) o dando vida a Jason Bourne. https://youtu.be/PaZVjZEFkRs Hoy cumple años Sigourney Weaver 68 años  es una actriz y productoraestadounidense de cine, televisión y teatro. Candidata a los Premios Óscar y a los Premios del Sindicato de Actores. Ganadora de dos Globo de Oro en las categorías de mejor actriz en drama y mejor actriz de reparto. Asimismo también ganadora de un BAFTA a la mejor actriz de reparto.Conocida por sus intervenciones como la teniente Ripley en varias películas de la saga de Alien: Alien, el octavo pasajero (1979), Aliens, el regreso (1986), Alien 3 (1992) y Alien Resurrection (1997). Ha participado también en otras películas tan recordadas como Ghostbusters (1984), Gorilas en la niebla(1988), Working Girl (1988), Copycat (1994), La tormenta de hielo (1997), Blancanieves: Un Cuento de Terror (1997), The Village (2004) y Avatar (2009). También conocida como la “reina de la ciencia-ficción”.En 1962 su familia se mudó a San Francisco, una experiencia nada agradable para ella. Posteriormente se mudaron al este de Connecticut, matriculándose en la Ethel Walker School, teniendo los mismos problemas que en el anterior colegio. En 1963 cambió su nombre por Sigourney, después de leer The Great Gatsby escrita por F. Scott Fitzgerald. Actuó en algunas de las obras teatrales del colegio y en el verano de 1965 trabajó como actriz en una troupe. Al graduarse en la escuela, en 1967 estuvo durante un período de tiempo en Israel, donde conoció al reportero Aaron Lathman, con quien se comprometió, aunque rompieron su relación poco más tarde. Ya en 1969 se matriculó en literatura inglesa en la Stanford University. Cuando terminó sus estudios entró en la Yale School of Drama en Nueva York, consiguiendo su debut en el teatro en el año 1973. El 1 de octubre de 1984contrajo matrimonio con Jim Simpson, teniendo una hija en común, Charlotte Simpson nacida el 13 de abril de 1990.Habla varios idiomas, entre ellos el francés y el alemán. Actualmente reside en la ciudad de Nueva York o en Santa Bárbara. Carrera El debut de Sigourney Weaver se produjo con la película de Woody Allen Annie Hall (1977) en la que interpretaba un pequeño personaje al lado de Allen. Dos años más tarde la actriz apareció como la teniente Ripley en la primera parte de la saga Alien, titulada Alien(1979). Repitió el personaje en tres secuelas, Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992) y Alien Resurrection (1997), siendo también productora de las dos últimas. El crítico Roger Ebert expresó, a raíz de su participación en la película dirigida por James Cameron, que: “Weaver, que está en pantalla la mayoría del tiempo, realiza una fuerte y simpática interpretación. Ella es el hilo que mantiene todo unido.” Fue candidata al Óscar a la mejor actriz, convirtiéndose en una de las pocas actrices que han conseguido una candidatura a dicho premio por una película de terror. Prosiguió su carrera con las exitosas Ghostbusters (1984) y secuela, Ghostbusters II (1989). En ambas películas coincidió con Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd y Rick Moranis.Al final de la década interpretó dos de los papeles mejor valorados de su carrera profesional, ambos en 1988, en la comedia Working Girl, con Harrison Ford y Melanie Griffith, y en el drama Gorilas en la niebla, como Dian Fossey. Sobre su interpretación como Fossey el crítico Emanuel Levy comentó “Sigourney Weaver realiza una imponente interpretación, digna de Óscar”.Ganó el Globo de Oro por ambas interpretaciones, en las categorías de mejor actriz de reparto y mejor actriz en drama, respectivamente; y consiguió nuevas candidaturas a los Premios Óscar como mejor actriz y mejor actriz de reparto, siendo una de las pocas intérpretes que consigue en un mismo año dos nominaciones. En la década de los 90 apareció en películas como Copycat (1995) en la que interpretaba a Helen Hudson que padecía de agorafobia; o en La tormenta de hielo (1997), dirigida por Ang Leey por la cual ganó una nueva candidatura al Globo de Oro como mejor actriz de reparto y ganó el BAFTA en la misma categoría. Le seguirían A Map of the World (1999), con Julianne Moore, por la que fue de nuevo candidata al Globo de Oro. Dan Lybarger señaló que: “Sigourney Weaver está excelente, incluso cuando la película es demasiado formal.” Posteriormente protagonizó la comedia Heartbreakers (2001), compartiendo cartel con Jennifer Love Hewitty Gene Hackman. En 2004 intervino en la cinta de M. Night Shyamalan The Village. Años más tarde formó parte del reparto coral del drama Infamous (2006) dirigido por Douglas McGrath, en la que interpretaba a Babe Paley, íntima amiga de Truman Capote, en cuyo reparto también estaban Sandra Bullock, Toby Jones o Gwyneth Paltrow.Rodó en España, en la ciudad castellanoleonesa de Salamanca, la cinta de acción Vantage Point (2008), junto a Dennis Quaid y Matthew Fox. Ese mismo año prestó su voz al ordenador de Ship en el film animado WALL·E, que ganó el Óscar a la mejor película de animación. Al año siguiente recibió nominaciones al Globo de Oro a la mejor actriz de miniserie o telefilme, al Emmy a la mejor actriz protagonista de miniserie o telefilme y al Premio del Sindicato de Actores a la mejor actriz de miniserie o telefilme por el telefilmePrayers for Bobby (2009). También en dos mil nueve volvió a trabajar a las órdenes de James Cameron en el film más taquillero de la historia del cine, Avatar, con más de 2.700 millones de dólares recaudados internacionalmente. Intervino en la comedia You Again (2010) donde trabajó con Jamie Lee Curtis y Betty White, de la que el crítico cinematográfico Lou Lumenick dijo: "You Again podría ser enseñada en las escuelas de cine como ejemplo de cómo no hacer una película. Y de cómo no humillar a los actores veteranos." El 23 de septiembre de 2011 se estrenó la cinta de acción Abduction, protagonizada por Taylor Lautner, en la que interpretó a la Dra. Bennett. A finales de 2011 interviene en la película cómica Vamps en la que también aparece Alicia Silverstone. En 2012 estrenó la cinta de acción Rampart, con Woody Harrelson, The Cold Light of Day, junto a Bruce Willis, y el filme dirigido por el español Rodrigo Cortéstitulado Red Lights, en cuyo reparto están Robert De Niro y Cillian Murphy. También protagonizó la miniserie Political Animals, emitida por la cadena USA Network entre julio y agosto de aquel año. En 2014 retoma el papel de Ripley por primera vez en 17 años poniendo su voz en el video juego Alien: Isolation y confirma que aparecerá en las tres secuelas de Avatar, de James Cameron. En 2014 Weaver aparece en el film Exodus: Gods and Kings, en el papel de Tuya, junto a Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, y Ben Kingsley. En la Comic Con de Nueva York celebrada en octubre de 2016 se confirmó que Sigourney Weaver participará en Marvel's The Defenders, que se estreno en Agosto de 2017. https://youtu.be/jQ5lPt9edzQ Hoy cumple años Chevy Chase 74 años  es un cómico y actor estadounidense de gran éxito en la década del 80.Chevy saltó a la fama como el guionista principal y miembro del equipo original del revolucionario show nocturno Saturday Night Live (SNL), por el que ganó dos premios Emmy. La serie dio a conocer a Chevy a nivel nacional y lo lanzó al éxito en su carrera cinematográfica. Desde su feliz debut en SNL, Chevy ha intervenido en algunas de las comedias más populares y duraderas de nuestra generación, como Caddyshack (El club de los chalados), Fletch (Fletch, el camaleón) y National Lampoon's Vacation. Chevy empezó su carrera en el mundo de la comedia como guionista y actor para Channel One, una revista de variedades underground de Nueva York que satirizaba la televisión. Channel One se convertiría más tarde en la base de su primera película, The Groove Tube. También escribió y protagonizó la serie The Great American Dream Machine, y co-escribió y protagonizó Lemmings, el musical satírico del off-Broadway que parodiaba Woodstock y la cultura Pop de los años '60. Al mismo tiempo, escribió y actuó para la National Lampoon Radio Hour y colaboró en la revista MAD. Ha escrito para Lily Tomlin, los hermanos Smothers y ganó un Writers Guild of America Award por escribir Alan King's Energy Crisis, Rising Prices and Assorted Vices. En televisión, Chevy ganó un tercer Emmy por co-escribir The Paul Simon Special. Como actor, Chevy ha protagonizado recientemente la película Snow Day, 22 años después de su primer papel protagonista junto a Goldie Hawn en la comedia Foul Play. Otras películas en las que ha participado incluyen títulos como National Lampoon's Vacation, National Lampoon's European Vacation (Las vacaciones europeas de una chiflada familia americana), National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, así como también Fletch, Fletch Lives, Caddyshack (El club de los chalados), Seems Like Old Times, Funny Farm, Spies Like Us, The Three Amigos, Memorias de un hombre invisible, Cops & Robbersons y Man of the House. En los '80, Chevy se asoció con su buen amigo Paul Simon en dos vídeos musicales: You Can Call Me Al y Proof. También ha aparecido como invitado en Orange County, Dirty Work (1998), Hero (1992), L.A. Story(1991) de Steve Martin y, en 1993, con un cameo en la película Last Action Hero. En 1992 fue nombrado "Hombre del año" por el Hasty Pudding Theatrical Group de la Universidad de Harvard, el grupo teatral universitario más antiguo del país. Chevy reside en Nueva York junto a su mujer Jayni y sus tres hijos. Apareció fugazmente en los últimos dos capítulos de la segunda temporada de la comedia Chuck interpretando a un malvado enemigo del protagonista, parodiando a una mezcla de Steve Jobs y Bill Gates. Fue parodiado en Los Simpson en el programa superespectacular por Troy McClure que recordaba "...y cinco semanas con Chevy Chase" Es también uno de los personajes principales de la serie Community, en la que interpreta a Pierce, un hombre maduro, que nunca se ha graduado, casado y divorciado con 7 mujeres que se inscribió en la universidad en busca de compañía y popularidad, pero a menudo, y no intencionalmente, es racista y torpe. Recientemente se ha anunciado su marcha de la serie, pero todavía aparecerá en la gran mayoría de episodios de la ya rodada cuarta temporada, cuyo estreno se vio retrasado hasta el mes de febrero de 2013. https://youtu.be/FHThGmVfE3A Hoy cumpliría años Kirk Alyn ( 1910 - 1999) fue un actor estadounidense, más conocido por haber sido el primer actor en interpretar a Superman en la pantalla, en la película de 1948 Superman, y su secuela Atom Man vs. Superman en 1950.

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Review phim Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á: Câu chuyện cổ tích giữa lọ lem và hoàng tử Rich Kid

Tên phim: Crazy Rich Asians

Tựa Việt: Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á

Thể loại: Comedy

Đạo diễn: Jon M. Chu

Diễn viên: Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, Ken Jeong, Harry Shum Jr., Awkwafina, Jimmy O. Yang and Gemma Chan.

Trailer phim “Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á”

Trailer phim "Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á"

Review phim “Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á”

Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á là bộ phim được chuyển thể từ một cuốn tiểu thuyết cùng tên. Và có nội dung xoay quanh mối tình giữa giáo viên gốc Hoa sống ở Mỹ Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) với chàng đồng nghiệp điển trai ở Đại Học New York – Nick Young (Henry Golding). Chỉ đến khi về Singapore ra mắt gia đình bạn trai, Rachel mới phát hiện gia thế khủng của người yêu và anh là một rich kid chính hiệu. Cũng từ đây mọi chuyện bắt đầu.

[caption id="attachment_11584" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Tài tử Henry Golding và Constance Wu[/caption]

Với gia thế khủng của nhà bạn trai như thế thì dĩ nhiên là mọi chuyện sẽ không thể diễn ra êm xuôi với một cô gái có xuất thân bình thường như Rachel Chu, lại còn phải chạm trán với một bà mẹ chồng độc đoán. Mẹ của Nick Young đúng theo kiểu là một bà mẹ chồng truyền thống, Eleanor (Dương Tử Quỳnh) không thể chấp nhận Rachel ngay từ cái nhìn đầu tiên vì bà luôn mong cậu quý tử phải kết hôn cùng một tiểu thư đài các, môn đăng hộ đối, như thế mới xứng với gia đình của bà.

[caption id="attachment_11585" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Cuộc chạm chán giữa Rachel và mẹ chồng tương lai[/caption]

Để được làm dâu nhà Nick Young thì Rachel phải học cách để hòa nhập với cuộc sống thượng lưu để làm vừa mắt mẹ chồng, nhưng không đơn giản là thế khi mà bà luôn tìm cách để chia rẽ tình cảm của đôi bạn trẻ. Đứng ở trong t��nh huống đó thì Nick bị kẹt ở giữa 2 người phụ nữ mà anh đều yêu thương hết lòng. Cũng chính tình huống dở khóc dở cười đó của đôi bạn trẻ mà chúng ta có thể nhận ra rằng đằng sau của những hào nhoáng, sang trọng của những người thượng lưu thì luôn có những khó khăn và những nỗi đau mà chỉ có người trong cuộc mới hiểu.

Đoạn trailer của Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á chỉ kéo dài 2 phút nhưng nó đã lôi cuốn người xem vào một cuộc sống vô cùng sang chảnh không chỉ của riêng thế giới của những người giàu mà là siêu giàu với những bữa tiệc sang trọng tại Marina Bay Sand chẳng thua kém gì chàng Gatsby trong Đại Gia Gatsby. Cuốn hút thêm vào đó là có sự xuất hiện của những cảnh dự tính là sẽ bỏ xa 50 Sắc Thái về độ nóng bỏng với những cảnh khoe thân của cặp diễn viên chính.

[caption id="attachment_11587" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Hình ảnh nóng bỏng của cặp đôi chính trong phim Con nhà siêu giàu Châu Á[/caption]

Tất cả những phân cảnh có trong phim được quay ở 3 nước Mỹ, Singapore, Malaysia. Điều này muốn nói lên rằng nhà sản xuất muốn gửi đến cho người hâm mộ những thước phim thể hiện được sự xa hoa đến tột đỉnh cùng với đó là một câu chuyện hài hước, nhưng không thiếu những phút giây xúc động lấy nước mắt của khán giả.

Jon M. Chu (loạt phim Step Up) là đạo diễn chính của bộ phim, Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á được ông dựa trên kịch bản đã được Peter Chiarelli (Phi Vụ Thế Kỷ 2) chịu trách nhiệm chuyển thể từ tác phẩm của nhà văn Kevin Kwan. Bên cạnh đó thì diễn viên chính trong phim đều là những diễn viên có gốc là người Châu Á, những cái tên đình đám xuất hiện trong phim là Dương Tử Quỳnh, tài tử Henry Golding và Constance Wu (Ngô Điềm Mẫn).

Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á có nội dung đậm chất lãng mạn, hơi hướng ngôn tình nên rất phù hợp với những khán giả trẻ, nhất là các bạn nữ yêu thích những bộ phim được làm với hình ảnh của hoàng tử và lọ lem. Khi xem phim bạn có thể cười sảng khoái với những tình huống cười ra nước mắt, hay rơi lệ với những phân cảnh cảm động. Nói chung là bộ phim Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á đủ các yếu tố giúp bạn giải trí.

Phim Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á dự kiến khởi chiếu trên toàn quốc từ ngày 24.08.2018. Cùng đón xem và cho cuasotinhoc biết cảm nhận của bạn sau khi xem phim nhé!

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Review phim Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á: Câu chuyện cổ tích giữa lọ lem và hoàng tử Rich Kid

Tên phim: Crazy Rich Asians

Tựa Việt: Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á

Thể loại: Comedy

Đạo diễn: Jon M. Chu

Diễn viên: Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding, Ken Jeong, Harry Shum Jr., Awkwafina, Jimmy O. Yang and Gemma Chan.

Trailer phim “Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á”

Trailer phim "Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á"

Review phim “Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á”

Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á là bộ phim được chuyển thể từ một cuốn tiểu thuyết cùng tên. Và có nội dung xoay quanh mối tình giữa giáo viên gốc Hoa sống ở Mỹ Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) với chàng đồng nghiệp điển trai ở Đại Học New York – Nick Young (Henry Golding). Chỉ đến khi về Singapore ra mắt gia đình bạn trai, Rachel mới phát hiện gia thế khủng của người yêu và anh là một rich kid chính hiệu. Cũng từ đây mọi chuyện bắt đầu.

[caption id="attachment_11584" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Tài tử Henry Golding và Constance Wu[/caption]

Với gia thế khủng của nhà bạn trai như thế thì dĩ nhiên là mọi chuyện sẽ không thể diễn ra êm xuôi với một cô gái có xuất thân bình thường như Rachel Chu, lại còn phải chạm trán với một bà mẹ chồng độc đoán. Mẹ của Nick Young đúng theo kiểu là một bà mẹ chồng truyền thống, Eleanor (Dương Tử Quỳnh) không thể chấp nhận Rachel ngay từ cái nhìn đầu tiên vì bà luôn mong cậu quý tử phải kết hôn cùng một tiểu thư đài các, môn đăng hộ đối, như thế mới xứng với gia đình của bà.

[caption id="attachment_11585" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Cuộc chạm chán giữa Rachel và mẹ chồng tương lai[/caption]

Để được làm dâu nhà Nick Young thì Rachel phải học cách để hòa nhập với cuộc sống thượng lưu để làm vừa mắt mẹ chồng, nhưng không đơn giản là thế khi mà bà luôn tìm cách để chia rẽ tình cảm của đôi bạn trẻ. Đứng ở trong tình huống đó thì Nick bị kẹt ở giữa 2 người phụ nữ mà anh đều yêu thương hết lòng. Cũng chính tình huống dở khóc dở cười đó của đôi bạn trẻ mà chúng ta có thể nhận ra rằng đằng sau của những hào nhoáng, sang trọng của những người thượng lưu thì luôn có những khó khăn và những nỗi đau mà chỉ có người trong cuộc mới hiểu.

Đoạn trailer của Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á chỉ kéo dài 2 phút nhưng nó đã lôi cuốn người xem vào một cuộc sống vô cùng sang chảnh không chỉ của riêng thế giới của những người giàu mà là siêu giàu với những bữa tiệc sang trọng tại Marina Bay Sand chẳng thua kém gì chàng Gatsby trong Đại Gia Gatsby. Cuốn hút thêm vào đó là có sự xuất hiện của những cảnh dự tính là sẽ bỏ xa 50 Sắc Thái về độ nóng bỏng với những cảnh khoe thân của cặp diễn viên chính.

[caption id="attachment_11587" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Hình ảnh nóng bỏng của cặp đôi chính trong phim Con nhà siêu giàu Châu Á[/caption]

Tất cả những phân cảnh có trong phim được quay ở 3 nước Mỹ, Singapore, Malaysia. Điều này muốn nói lên rằng nhà sản xuất muốn gửi đến cho người hâm mộ những thước phim thể hiện được sự xa hoa đến tột đỉnh cùng với đó là một câu chuyện hài hước, nhưng không thiếu những phút giây xúc động lấy nước mắt của khán giả.

Jon M. Chu (loạt phim Step Up) là đạo diễn chính của bộ phim, Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á được ông dựa trên kịch bản đã được Peter Chiarelli (Phi Vụ Thế Kỷ 2) chịu trách nhiệm chuyển thể từ tác phẩm của nhà văn Kevin Kwan. Bên cạnh đó thì diễn viên chính trong phim đều là những diễn viên có gốc là người Châu Á, những cái tên đình đám xuất hiện trong phim là Dương Tử Quỳnh, tài tử Henry Golding và Constance Wu (Ngô Điềm Mẫn).

Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á có nội dung đậm chất lãng mạn, hơi hướng ngôn tình nên rất phù hợp với những khán giả trẻ, nhất là các bạn nữ yêu thích những bộ phim được làm với hình ảnh của hoàng tử và lọ lem. Khi xem phim bạn có thể cười sảng khoái với những tình huống cười ra nước mắt, hay rơi lệ với những phân cảnh cảm động. Nói chung là bộ phim Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á đủ các yếu tố giúp bạn giải trí.

Phim Con Nhà Siêu Giàu Châu Á dự kiến khởi chiếu trên toàn quốc từ ngày 24.08.2018. Cùng đón xem và cho cuasotinhoc biết cảm nhận của bạn sau khi xem phim nhé!

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yuk baca REVIEW: J.cat Beauty Sparkling Powder

Hi gengs! 

Akhir-akhir ini dunia permakeupan semakin beragam yaa, dari mulai menggunakan rhinestone sampai dengan penggunakan glitter baik di bagian wajah maupun mata. Dan kali ini untuk meningkatkan kemampuan makeup ku khususnya di bagian eye makeup, aku memutuskan untuk mencoba beberapa glitter dari beberapa brand, dan kali ini yang aku coba adalah J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder.

Penasaran? Yuk langsung simak review nya.

Jcat Beauty Sparkling Powder (Jungle Sapphire)

WHAT IT IS?

Multidimensional and light as air, this velvety baked formula wears all day long. Shimmery marbling tru-color eye shadow really packs in the pigments. Our uniquely designed solar baked formula blends seamslessly and is ultra versatile. Apply dry for an even wash of color or wet for a more dramatic look.

(www.jcatbeauty.com)

Netto: 4gr

J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder datang dengan 24 warna yang super cantik, yaitu:

Papaya Whip, Cool Silver, Popping Lime, Gold Road, Wild Berry, Iris Indigo, Tangerine, Jungle Sapphire, Ultra Pink, Bondi Black, Amazing Gold, Lion Silver, Gatsby’s Party, Winter Icicle, Royal Highness, Ginggerbread Sugar, Amber Jewelry, Pink Tutu, King’s Robe, Mystic Wave, Golden Pumpkin, Robotic Purple, Tickle Me Pink, Champagne Kiss.

J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder hadir dengan kemasan tabung mini berbahan plastik transparan yang mungkin ukurannya hanya setinggi jari kelingkingku saja. Pada kemasan depannya, terdapat informasi terkait dengan brand, nama produk dan berat netto.

Sedangkan pada bagian belakang kemasan J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder terdapat stiker plastik yang menjelaskan beberapa informasi seperti barcode, nama shade, ingredients, perusahaan distribusi dan lamanya produk ini akan expired (12months).

INGREDIENTS

Polyesters/Copoluesters, Polyester, Polyethylene, Terepthalate, Acylic Copolymer, Isobutylurea-Melamine Formaldehy

MAY CONTAINS

Alumunium Methyl, Methacrylate, Amorphous Silica, Red 1 (CI 12070), Solvent Red 8 (CI 12715), Solvent Blue 5 (CI 73065), Solvent Yellow 83 (CI 21108), Solvent Blue 15:1 (CI 74160)

OVERALL VERDICT

Kemasan J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder Jungle Sapphire menurutku cukup simple dan handy, kecil, ringkas dan punya tutup yang safe untuk dibawa kemana-mana tanpa takut tumpah. Lubang tempat keluarnya isi produk juga tidak terlalu besar, cukup lah untuk aku.

Membawa kata sapphire, menurutku warna J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder Jungle Sapphire masih “kurang safir” seperti harapanku. But overall, warna nya cantik banget!

J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder Jungle Sapphire punya butiran-butiran glitter yang kecil dan halus, namun masih sangat pop up warnanya apabila diaplikasikan ke kelopak mata.

Bagaimana aku mengaplikasikannya?

Biasanya, aku menggunakan glitter ini untuk finishing touch di bagian kelopak mata maupun di inner corner. Setelah semua eyeshadow yang digunakan sudah ngeblend sempurna, aku tambahkan sedikit lem bulu mata di bagian kelopak mata dan mengaplikasikan J.Cat Beauty Sparkling Powder Jungle Sapphire dengan menggunakan brush atau cotton bud bersih, blend sedikit lagi dan jadi deh! hehehe.

FINAL SCORE

9.5 of 10

Apa aku mau coba warna lain?

YES, OF COURSE!

Beberapa warna yang akan aku beli selanjutnya adalah Gold Road, Iris Indigo, Tangerine, Bondi Black, Amazing Gold, Amber Jewelry, dan Champagne Kiss.

Product price: IDR 40.000

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I believe in the the chills that race up the spine when two perfectly dissonant notes pierce the air. Breaking all the rules of music theory and composition, it at first sounds like a mistake of the composer or chorus. But with meticulous skill, the chord is resolved with a magnificent cadence that soothes the ear and warms the soul. A sound as rich as melting caramel floods the space and calms my soul even if severe hail floods the Gene Slider. I believe in rooms as messy as life itself. A paper due, 10 dog-eared books on the floor; the latest social drama, a pile of unfolded, wrinkled laundry in the corner; a crazy weekend or week or month or year, a slew of random items and ideas I’ve accrued throughout the hectic phase scattered across my room and my car and my face and my heart. I believe in plush penguin Christmas socks with fiesta patterned Chaco’s paired with a blavy sweatshirt pants combo. Time, with its varying viscosities yet liquid nonetheless, can not be constrained by the grasp of man’s hands or intentions. There is only one tonight and another will never be exactly like it. Would I let that time race through my fingers while pondering matching? I refuse. I believe in cackling. A sharp throaty chortle piercing the air—like the spear seconds after the instant discobolos portrays—dominos to all those around. The subsequent gasping for air as Abs ache due to inability to stop giggling empties the lungs but fills the soul. But more than Gatsby in the green light or or the USA that we will win or that guy in Space Jams in his ability to fly or even Pi in god, I believe in the diverse assortment of people and places we become. From every person we meet, we take a piece of them and leave a fragment of us. From the morsels of Sarah Wessel and Woody and Mr. 64a at the VA and Caroline Limbreight and Mrs. Mora and Ms. Case to all the Sarah’s (Goodbub, Hoke Hayhurst, Wells, and Jessie too) and and Van Niekerk and the twerkies and company, and Hannah and Josue and my parents and even the people I read, I am now a vast array of individuals tacked on top of the incredibly improbably unique combination of chemicals and something else that makes me. I believe in clashing with the world around me and with the bits of people that make up me because each color, each sound, each idea, each difference from the rest of the lemmings makes the world rich and the pieces left behind make this brief life worth living.

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