#dune les origines

[bobacupcake]

Oooh, what about Journey? I think the sand probably took a lot to pull off

it did!! i watched a video about it, god, like 6 years ago or something and it was a very very important thing for them to get just right. this is goimg to be a longer one because i know this one pretty extensively

here's the steps they took to reach it!!

and heres it all broken down:

so first off comes the base lighting!! when it comes to lighting things in videogames, a pretty common model is the lambert model. essentially you get how bright things are just by comparing the normal (the direction your pixel is facing in 3d space) with the light direction (so if your pixel is facing the light, it returns 1, full brightness. if the light is 90 degrees perpendicular to the pixel, it returns 0, completely dark. and pointing even further away you start to go negative. facing a full 180 gives you -1. thats dot product baybe!!!)

but they didnt like it. so. they just tried adding and multiplying random things!!! literally. until they got the thing on the right which they were like yeah this is better :)

you will also notice the little waves in the sand. all the sand dunes were built out of a heightmap (where things lower to the ground are closer to black and things higher off the ground are closer to white). so they used a really upscaled version of it to map a tiling normal map on top. they picked the map automatically based on how steep the sand was, and which direction it was facing (east/west got one texture, north/south got the other texture)

then its time for sparkles!!!! they do something very similar to what i do for sparkles, which is essentially, they take a very noisy normal map like this and if you are looking directly at a pixels direction, it sparkles!!

this did create an issue, where the tops of sand dunes look uh, not what they were going for! (also before i transition to the next topic i should also mention the "ocean specular" where they basically just took the lighting equation you usually use for reflecting the sun/moon off of water, and uh, set it up on the sand instead with the above normal map. and it worked!!! ok back to the tops of the sand dunes issue)

so certain parts just didnt look as they intended and this was a result of the anisotropic filtering failing. what is anisotropic filtering you ask ?? well i will do my best to explain it because i didnt actually understand it until 5 minutes ago!!!! this is going to be the longest part of this whole explanation!!!

so any time you are looking at a videogame with textures, those textures are generally coming from squares (or other Normal Shapes like a healthy rectangle). but ! lets say you are viewing something from a steep angle

it gets all messed up!!! so howww do we fix this. well first we have to look at something called mip mapping. this is Another thing that is needded because video game textures are generally squares. because if you look at them from far away, the way each pixel gets sampled, you end up with some artifacting!!

so mip maps essentially just are the original texture, but a bunch of times scaled down Properly. and now when you sample that texture from far away (so see something off in the distance that has that texture), instead of sampling from the original which might not look good from that distance, you sample from the scaled down one, which does look good from that distance

ok. do you understand mip mapping now. ok. great. now imagine you are a GPU and you know exactly. which parts of each different mip map to sample from. to make the texture look the Absolute Best from the angle you are looking at it from. how do you decide which mip map to sample, and how to sample it? i dont know. i dont know. i dont know how it works. but thats anisotropic filtering. without it looking at things from a steep angle will look blurry, but with it, your GPU knows how to make it look Crisp by using all the different mip maps and sampling them multiple times. yay! the more you let it sample, the crisper it can get. without is on the left, with is on the right!!

ok. now. generally this is just a nice little thing to have because its kind of expensive. BUT. when you are using a normal map that is very very grainy like the journey people are, for all the sparkles. having texture fidelity hold up at all angles is very very important. because without it, your textures can get a bit muddied when viewing it from any angle that isnt Straight On, and this will happen

cool? sure. but not what they were going for!! (16 means that the aniso is allowed to sample the mip maps sixteen times!! thats a lot)

but luckily aniso 16 allows for that pixel perfect normal map look they are going for. EXCEPT. when viewed from the steepest of angles. bringing us back here

so how did they fix this ? its really really clever. yo uguys rmemeber mip maps right. so if you have a texture. and have its mip maps look like this

that means that anything closer to you will look darker, because its sampling from the biggest mip map, and the further away you get, the lighter the texture is going to end up. EXCEPT !!!! because of aisononotropic filtering. it will do the whole sample other mip maps too. and the places where the anisotropic filtering fail just so happen to be the places where it starts sampling the furthest texture. making the parts that fail that are close to the camera end up as white!!!

you can see that little ridge that was causing problems is a solid white at the tip, when it should still be grey. so they used this and essentially just told it not to render sparkles on the white parts. problem solved

we arent done yet though because you guys remember the mip maps? well. they are causing their own problems. because when you shrink down the sparkly normal map, it got Less Sparkly, and a bit smooth. soooo . they just made the normal map mip maps sharper (they just multipled them by 2. this just Worked)

the Sharp mip maps are on the left here!!

and uh... thats it!!!! phew. hope at least some of this made sense

[punchitmrsulu]

Man, the more R*chelle D*vis, Al*x Pr*yas and all the naysayers complain about the new Crow movie, the more I want it to be absolutely fucking awesome and make a killing.

First of all, it's not a remake of the original movie, it's a new adaptation of the comic book. Just like the new IT movies were a new adaptation of the book, not a remake of the 1990 TV movie. Just like the new Dune movies are not remakes of David Lynch's Dune, they're a new adaptation of the books. Does everybody understand that?

From the trailer alone you can tell both movies are two completely different things.

Second of all, why is this story suddenly untouchable because Br*ndon Le*, unfortunately, passed while making it?

However sad that may be, the story had nothing to do with him in the first place. James O'Barr wrote it as a means of dealing with the death of his fiancée at the hands of a drunk driver. So, I think he's the only one who gets to complain about any adaptation of his work. And I really don't think he'd be too pleased with something he wrote about the love he had for his fiancée suddenly revolving only around Br*ndon.

At the risk of getting too deep, a new adaptation of it could potentially reach loads of new people and help them deal with their grief just like I'm sure the comic and the 1994 movie did.

And how is any of this tarnishing Br*ndon's legacy in any way? I've said it in a previous post but I'll say it again, in my opinion, it’s quite the contrary. It’s probably gonna get more people who haven’t seen the original and maybe don’t know about it and him to want to see it and bring him and the 1994 version back into the spotlight.

It's probably also going to get loads of people to want to read the comic, which is another good thing, as well, I believe.

[thingsilikealex99a]

A little help here...

A few months ago I did a post featuring this pic of Cassandra Peterson, AKA Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark in her Las Vegas showgirl days:

The original pic was uncensored, showing a topless Peterson dancing in the revue.

Today I happened to notice a comment on a reblog of that post that Peterson was under-age at the time. I did some research and found some information. The show was "Viva Les Girls" at the Dunes Hotel on the Las Vegas strip and to perform Peterson had to get permission from her parents as she was only 17 years old at the time, the youngest showgirl ever. This quote is from Peterson in a 2015 interview:

"That was my first big job was here in Vegas at the Dunes Hotel. I believe it's still in the Guinness Book of World Records unless they have somebody who's only 5 or 6 who's a showgirl now," she laughs. "I was not allowed to enter the casino. I had to come and go through the back door. Then I'd get up and dance in my skivvies, and then go out the back door."

When I made my post, I had no idea. I have an iron-clad policy that under-age persons NEVER appear on my grown-ups blog, so I immediately found the post in my archives and deleted it.

The problem is that while I deleted the original post, it continues to exist in reblogs and there is no way for me to claw those back. I have suggested to Tumblr staff that edits, changes and DELETIONS of posts should propagate down through the reblog chain, but that change has never been made.

So, I'd value your help here. If you have reblogged my post, PLEASE delete it. If you see it on another blog, please advise the blog owner of the situation and ask them to kill the post.

I apologize for all this. I've flagged in @Staff on the issue, perhaps they can help. Other than that, there's nothing more I can do.

[writergeekrhw]

Hey hey! Long time listener, first time caller. I was curious, what are some of your favorite science fiction movies/shows/books? Is there anything you’d consider to be “essential” viewing or reading for Star Trek fans? And was there anything that you remember being inspired by that ended up influencing any of your scripts?

These days (and even back in my time) Star Trek is mostly inspired by... err... Star Trek. But here are a few space set books that I read growing up which almost certainly influenced my writing:

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Between Planets, Time for the Stars - Robert Heinlein

Dune - Frank Herbert

Hyperion - Dan Simmons

Consider Phlebas - Iain Banks

The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ringworld, Tales of Known Space, etc. - Larry Niven

SHOWS/MOVIES

Bladerunner, Star Wars, Enemy Mine, TOS, Alien, Aliens, The Thing (original and remake), Predator

Not an exhaustive list, but those are the ones that come to mind.

Most of the big inspirations for DS9 were NOT science fiction though. We were inspired by actual history, plus westerns, war movies, film noir, screwball comedies, horror, pretty much anything you can think of.

[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🗞️📖 Bookish News 📖🗞️

🦇 Extra, extra. Read all about it! 📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry last month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed!

Adaptations Jennifer Lopez's production company and Netflix - Emily Henry's Happy Place Laika (Travis Knight directing) - Susanna Clarke's Piranesi Universal (Taika Waititi directing?) - Percival Everett's James We Were Liars adds Rahul Kohli to the cast Patrick Dempsey and Sarah Michelle Gellar have joined the cast of the Dexter prequel, Original Sin Chris McKay to direct Brynne Weaver’s Butcher and Blackbird Ayvan Williams, Jessica Belkin & Savannah Lee Smith casted for Becky Albertalli's The Upside of Unrequited First looks for Heartstopper S3 are out Apple TV - Laura Lippman's The Lady in the Lake Adult Swim - Anthony Bourdain’s graphic novel series, Get Jiro! UCP - Chris Witaker's All the Colors of the Dark The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson A24 - Jennifer Lawrence starring - Paul Rainey's Why Don't You Love Me? Netflix - Richard E. Grant and Tom Ellis casted for The Thursday Murder Club Sony - Michael Crichton and James Patterson's Eruption Renee Zellweger starring in 12 Months to Live Awesomeness - Melissa De La Cruz's Blue Bloods The Uglies adaptation has a release date after 18 years (September 13) The trailer for Elin Hilderbrand's The Perfect Couple is up Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea is being adapted into a graphic novel Prime - Colin Firth joins the cast of Young Sherlock Universal - Omid Scobie's Royal Spin Netflix - Bridgerton Season 4 lead announced Amazon - Fourth Wing series adaptation is a go Apple TV - The trailer for Pachinko! Season 2 is up An adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys will open the 62nd New York Film Festival Patton Oswalt’s comic book Minor Threats is being adapted into a live-action series HBO - Dune: Prophecy releases in November

Cover Reveals Babylonia - Costanza Casati The Get Off - Christa Faust The Ragpicker King - Cassandra Clare What Does It Feel Like - Sophie Kinsella Wake Up and Open Your Eyes - Clay McLeod Chapman Ageless - Renee Schaeffer The Thirteenth Child - Erin A. Craig Song So Wild and Blue: A Life With Joni Mitchell - Paul Lisicky The Meadowbrook Murders - Jessica Goodman On Her Terms - Amy Spalding Onyx Storm - Rebecca Yarros The River Has Roots - Amal El-Mohtar The Wind Weaver - Julie Johnson In Gad We Trust - Josh Gad The Life of Herod the Great - Zora Neale Hurston (posthumous) The Other People - CB Everett How My Neighbor Stole Christmas - Meghan Quinn

Upcoming Releases I Saw the TV Glow director Jane Schoenbrun has a debut novel coming out, Public Access Afterworld Carol Moseley Braun is writing a memoir, Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics New memoir by Hilary Rodham Clinton The Road is Good - Uzo Aduba Leo Martino Steals Back His Heart - Eric Geron Viola Davis is co-writing with James Patterson

News Macmillan is launching a "new adult fiction" imprint. The 2024 Locus Award winners were announced The 2024 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards were announced Nebula Award winners were announced Random House is buying Boom! Studios

[magicaltear]

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger 20 Middlemarch – George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis 34 Emma – Jane Austen 35 Persuasion – Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne 41 Animal Farm – George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving 45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding 50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck 62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding 69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens 72 Dracula – Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses – James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal – Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel 83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks 94 Watership Down – Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

As found in the original post I saw by @macrolit

My total: 43/100

[rebeccalouisaferguson]

"I should have been French”: Rebecca Ferguson, the secrets of the heroine of Dune

MEETING - After taming Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible, the flamboyant Swede is starring in the second part of the adaptation of Dune, the famous book by Frank Herbert, by Denis Villeneuve.

A great director knows how to give depth to a secondary character in just a few shots; a great actress, she knows how to restore this substantial marrow by exploiting these moments - even the briefest - which are granted to her on the screen. A feat that Rebecca Ferguson accomplishes several times in the second part of Dune, piloted by Denis Villeneuve. A necessary know-how since she takes on by far the most complex and mysterious role in this cinematographic fresco adapted from the inexhaustible original work of Franck Herbert: Lady Jessica, a woman capable of controlling the actions of others through simple intonation of her voice, being able to decide the sex of the child she is carrying while being able to communicate with him.

However, she is surrounded by a cast that would make anyone's head spin (Timothée Chalamet, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard, Josh Brolin, Charlotte Rampling...), but this 40-year-old Swede manages to make her memorable performance. Nothing suprising. Ferguson went to a good school. The best, perhaps, for learning to flourish without being stifled by such a team assembled in the middle of one of the biggest productions of the year.

In 2015, then unknown to the general public, she was cast alongside the biggest Hollywood star in one of the most famous franchises on the planet: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible. A complete unknown, she must replace Jessica Chastain who refused the role of Ilsa Faust - a spy supposed to rival Ethan Hunt, played by Cruise, in muscle and charisma. Where the “James Bond Girls” left their mark in just one film, Ferguson established herself as the equal of her imposing partner in three episodes of Mission: Impossible and won the hearts of the public.

“It’s romantic, it’s sexy”

As we have understood, the Nordic woman is not afraid of taking on hot-blooded roles. “Please don't ask me how it feels to play powerful women,” she begs, taking off her heels before sitting down on the sofa at the Bristol in Paris, where we meet her. Teasingly, we ask her this question. She counters with a knowing and amused “Oh, fuck off”.

Then stops to order food. A green salad with the dressing on the side and “some protein, like fish or whatever.” Sad menu. Necessary, no doubt? She has to catch a train just after the promotion of Dune to join the filming of the second season of Silo, an excellent series produced and broadcast by Apple TV - but shunned by the audiences (like all the Apple brand's productions). And a bowl of fries,” adds the actress. Phew

So as not to completely forget powerful women, we ask her questions about the continuation of this career which is taking off like a rocket. “I would love to play in smaller, more intimate projects, where we have a little more say in the development of the story or the characters,” admits the actress. "The kind of project that many studios no longer want to support.”

Like those in which his costar from Dune, Thimothée Chalamet, debuted? “Yeah!”, replies the one who doesn’t speak French, but naturally places words from our language in the conversation. “I should have been French, anyway.” For the fries? “No, for the language, its movement, its sensation… there is an attitude. It’s romantic, it’s sexy.” It's never too late, Rebecca.

translated from french for @rebeccalouisaferguson

[theghostinthemargins]

Explore my bookshelf!

Tagged by @searchingforserendipity25, thank you <3

An estimate of how many physical books I own: um. it must be in the thousands. there are... a lot.

Favorite author: I have a few, but for overall favourite I don't think anyone can beat Jane Austen. She's funny, she's clever, she's romantic... I adore all her books so much.

A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: I keep hearing about Where The Crawdads Sing and it sounds... very forgettable, to be honest.

A popular book I thought was just meh: Normal People by Sally Rooney - people were talking about it like it was the pinnacle of millennial literature, and it was really just a book.

Longest book I own: probably the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Longest series I own all the books to: I think that would be the combined Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Heroes of Olympus and Trials of Apollo series, which comes out to fifteen books.

Prettiest book I own: Either Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales or The Lord of the Rings!

A book or series I wish more people knew about: The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard are so so good! They're about an upper-class English family during WW2 and I love all the complicated intergenerational relationships and the lovely prose and also the wlw representation <3

Book I'm reading now: I have been working my way through Les Miserables for some months and nearing the final stretch now I think! Also Emily Wilson's Odyssey on the side.

Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: Dune - it's been sitting on my shelf for a while and I haven't picked it up because I'm not much of a sci-fi reader, but it's supposed to be a classic and looks very interesting so hopefully I'll get around to it soon!

Do you have any books in a language other than English: I am a monolingual reader, unfortunately. I think I have a couple of French-English parallel books (with French on one side and English on the other) but I haven't read them straight through. Also maybe some Euripides plays in the original Greek? They're very old books and I'm not sure whether they're in Greek or English.

Paperback, hardcover, or ebook? Usually paperbacks for ease of transportation! I've mostly gone off e-books because they're harder to lend out and I like swapping books with people, but I do buy them if I can't bear to wait for a paperbook edition of a book to come out and the hardback is too expensive.

Tagging @warrioreowynofrohan, @dreamingthroughthenoise, @eilinelsghost, @swanmaids and anyone else who'd like to join in!

[a-ramblinrose]

A Weekly Reading Journal 7.21.24

Whoops missed a week!

Currently Reading:

Fiction:

I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

Gideon The Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Harrowing the Dragon by Patricia A. McKillip

Graphic Novels:

The Tea Dragon Tapestry by K. O'Neill

Poetry:

The Collected Poems 1912-1944 by H.D.

Word of Mouth by Catherine Bowman

The Shadow of Sirius by W.S. Merwin [RR]

Just Finished:

The Puppets of Spelhorst by Kate Dicamillo ★★★★

The Dragon Shifter’s Mate by Eel Lovesick ★★ [K]

Spy x Family Vol. 7 by Tatsuya Endo ★★★★

Spy x Family Vol. 8 by Tatsuya Endo ★★★★★

Spy x Family Vol. 9 by Tatsuya Endo ★★★★

The Rake Mistake by Erica Ridley ★★★ [K]

Under her Roof by Allison Temple ★★ [K]

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum ★★★

DNFs/Try Again Later:

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexande Dumas (very much a try again later when I'm not slumping so hard!)

General Reading Thoughts:

The slump continues. And continues. My ability to finish comics and novellas is a blessing I'm not questioning at this time!

Will the bookish gods please let me read!!!!!!

Happy Reading!!!

Current Reading Tag || General Original Content || 2024 Reading Page

And an update on my 24 in 2024 below the cut:

Bold = Read & Italics = Currently Reading & Red = Unhauled/Unread

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

The Iliad translated by Emily Wilson

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being A Witch by Gabrielle Kent & Rhianna Pratchett

The Golem and the Jinn by Helene Wecker

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Babel by R. F. Kuang

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 1 by Priest

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Proper English by KJ Charles

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

So, I've read 7 of this list and decided I didn't even want to try with 3 for a variety of reasons. Yikes for my goal. At least all the read books were enjoyable and highly rated!!!

[to-fanartists-with-love]

Below are the main tags by medium and under the link to the tags, all the fandoms I've posted about in alphabetic order. The fandom and the characters that appear are tagged too but you're gonna have to look into my blog search function. You can also search the tags by canon art, gif, collage or doujinshi (for fancomics).

anime (aka. all animation bc I'm too lazy to modify the tag with the proper name)

alien stage, blue eyed samurai, code geass, castlevania, link click, mawaru penguindrum, mononoke, puella magi madoka magica, shojo kakumei utena, trigun stampede, yuuri on ice

book

all for the game, all of us villains, a song of ice and fire, bartimaeus trilogy, captive prince, dark rise trilogy, edas, greenwing and dart, harry potter heptalogy, kane chronicles, kingkiller chronicle, kusuriya no hitorigoto, les miserables, long live evil, nine worlds, omniscient reader's viewpoint, percy jackson universe, silmarillion, the scholomance, the folk of the air, the locked tomb, the raven cycle, the vampire chronicles, villains series, wheel of time

comic

dc universe

danmei

bing an ben, erha he ta de bai mao shizun, golden terrace, liu yao: the revitalization of fuyao sect, modao zushi, mo du, mozun ye xiang zhidao, tian guan ci fu, tian ya ke, qiang jin jiu, qian qiu, scum villain self saving system, yuwu, zhen hun

film

dune 2021, star wars, the handmaiden

manga

akatsuki no yona, banana fish, berserk, bleach, blue lock, blue period, boku no chikyuu wo mamotte, boku no hero academia, bungou stray dogs, cardcaptor sakura, death note, detective conan, d.gray man, dungeon meshi, eroica yori ai wo komete, fullmetal alchemist, hetalia, hikaru ga shinda natsu, hikaru no go, hunter x hunter, jibaku shonen hanako-kun, jujutsu kaisen, kaze to ki no uta, kuroshitsuji, magic kaito, naruto, one piece, pandora hearts, poe no ichizoku, ranma 1/2, rg veda, shaman king, showa genroku rakugo shinjuu, spy x family, soul eater, tsubasa reservoir chronicle, uruwashi no yoi no tsuki, vampire knight, vanitas no shuki, witch hat atelier, xxxholic, x/1999, yugioh, yu yu hakusho

original art

tv show

dark 2017, dead boy detectives, house of the dragon, interview with a vampire, nirvana in fire, the untamed, wheel of time, word of honor

video game

genshin impact, persona 5

webcomic

girl genius, homestuck, tower of god

Enjoy! And remember it's always nice to like, reblog or comment if you loved the art!

[fuck-yeah-romantica]

The love of my l- Sada. Just, Sada.

Romantica photoshoot

- Position: guitar / bass

- Birthday: april 3 (no there is no year. Being lucky, only ten years later than Karen)

- Zodiac: aries

- Height: 170cm.

- Weight: 53kg.

- Bloodtype: A

- Previous musical projects: ...

Sada's first look, claims Karen Fox, 2004 (look at him. Look at him. L o o k.)

- Favourite bands (Japan): X japan, Baiser, Kuroyume, Shazna, Velvet eden, Art marju duchain, Luna sea, Malice mizer, Moi dix mois, Raphael, Hizaki grace project, Izam, Lareine, Metis Gretel, Sadist, Parasite, S (visual kei era), Syndrome, Phantasmagoria, Jun solo, hide, Anti feminism, Madeth gray'll, Je*reviens, Dir en grey (visual kei era), La:sadie's, Aliene ma'riage, Noir fleurir, Eliphas levi, Noi'x, Missalina rei, Neil, Celestia le ciel, Eze qul, Luinspear, Marry+an+blood, Misery, Orugo/ru, The piass, Loon eye's millye, Verfe gorl, Schwardix marvally, Due le quartz, Kagrra (visual kei era), Da'vid shito:al, Alc A dia, Kar maria, Allegory pill, Lanus dune, Aikaryu, Kamaitachi, Gargoyle, Kuroahega, Sex Android, Angel heart.. and a looot more....

- Favourite bands (Outside Japan): Sex pistols, Specimen, Siouxsie and the banshees, Cinema strange, London after midnight, Heart Throb Mob, Queeny Blast Pop, The devotchkas, The damned, The adicts, Vice Squad (80's), Misfits, The Ramones, Motley crue, Visage, Dead or alive, Boy george, Mayhem, Dana International, The horrorpops, Dick dale, Dead can dance, Karen Fox, She-ra. (Damn that goth strike)

- Favourite Videoclips: Fade to Grey (Visage), Out of fashion (Boy George), Long Hard Road Out Of Hell (Marilyn Manson), Zero (Smashing pumkins), Sad Mask (Velvet eden), Omocha no miisha (Noir fleurir), Metamorphose (Lareine), Gekka No Yasoukyaku (Malice mizer), Sumire september love (Shazna), Sister (Kuroyume), Koi shite kura kura (Izam), Weekend (X japan), Tsuki ni kasamura kumo hana ni kaze (Omnyouza), To.ki.me.ki. (Missalina rei), Sangeki no yoru (Dir en grey), Michi no sora (Psycho le cemu), Hoy no (Entre Rios), Paris (Romantica).

- Hobby: ...

- Interest: Hollow earth, Nazi esoterism (ufo), not official science, comics, manga.

- Personality: dejado (ditzy, out of touch with the surroundings), dreamer.

- Favourite colour: black, violet.

- Ambition: youth.

- Your first love: myself

- Would you like to be in love again?: here I am.

- Romantica in one word: machos (alpha males)

- Favourite phrase: y.. ya no se puede confiar en naides!! -by: shinjidark- (well... Neinbody is to trust!!)

- Favourite book: ...

- Favourite writer: Pierre Boulle, H.P. lovecraft, Julio Verne, John uri lloyd, H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Ellis St. Joseph, Edward Bulwer Lytton.

- Favourite movie: Hedwig and the angry inch, Star wars (original trilogy), Dagon, Glen or glenda.

- Favourite t.v. series: Lost, The outer limits (60's), The twilight zone (50's).

- Favourite politic: Gral. Juan D. Peron.

- Favourite word: ...

- Type of woman liked: Real doll.

- Type of woman disliked: Real women. (Somebody should tell this guys homosexuality isn't the answer to mysoginy... Or maybe it is?)

- Treasured thing: my body.

- Who is your rival: myself

- Favourite anime: NHK ni youkoso!, Neon genesis evangelion, Arbegas (El rayo custodio!), Mononoke hime, Gunnm, Magic knight rayearth, Petshop of horrors, Robotech, Berserk, Gantz.

- Animated series: The smurfs, South park, The simpsons, Batman the animated series, Transformers, Spiderman and his amazing friends, Dino raiders, G.I. Joe, Thundercats, Birdman.

- What did you wanted to be as a child: pope

- What subjet did you like at school: none, I hate school.

- When did you discover music: 14 years old

- Something you always carry with you: Brain.

- Time of the year: autumn

- Where you would like to go: tokyo, inside of hollow earth.

- Who you would like to meet: ...

- What song defines you: sad mask - velvet eden.

- Message to fans: I don't know who you are, but I don't believe you anything!!!.

[merlions]

This is specifically re: journeys which are undertaken by a physical body outside of a vehicle - obviously in Left Hand of Darkness they were using sleds, etc, but in all of these they weren't traveling by enclosed powered vehicle like car or space craft, and their physical bodies were very much involved in the travel, as well as the danger of the slow degeneration of flesh and mind by the journey (the main danger not being like a spaceship blowing up or being shot at).

Sorry I couldn't type out Ursula K. Le Guin's full name due to the character limit :/

The origin of this was just me going like "which isnt a lot but it's weird it happened 5 times!" meme, but then was like actually that maybe IS a lot, and then considered: Damn. The unstaunchable yearning one experiences for the raw primal psychosexual bonds built between travelers who are trapped together (or trapped with the memory of a recently deceased loved one, or both) in deadly, miserable, relentless forward motion by circumstance....but are the harsh environment and profound changes to self worth it?? Slash GREAT litmus test for that whole "you say you like summer better but do you actually, or are you just upset it's winter" debate, with side flavors of Dry VS Humid, Volcano And Big Spider and, of course, Very Very Loud

[cleopatras-library]

📚🗓 Mid-Year Freakout Tag 2023 🗓📚

jumping on the hype train because it’s fun

How many books have you read so far?

69 including comics & graphic novels (nice)

What genres have you read?

Mostly fantasy and sci fi, but also a bit of historical fiction.

Best book you’ve read so far in 2023?

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson! The first two books in the series were dubious, but things really came together for me in this one and I'm so excited for the conclusion. Also Baru is the character ever.

Best sequel you’ve read so far in 2023?

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir; it really recontextualizes the first two books and is therefore the best at being a sequel.

New release you haven’t read yet, but want to

Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway (saw it at a festival), Translation State by Ann Leckie (I really liked her other books), and also New Suns 2 (I read New Suns last year and it had some really good stories!)

Most anticipated release for the second half of the year

Alecto the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir! After reading Nona I need to know.

Biggest disappointment

It's a tie between The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (boring and somehow shallow-feeling worldbuilding, and managed not to get me very invested in the characters even with over 1000 pages?), Dune by Frank Herbert (all the worst parts of 60s sci fi), La passeuse de mots by Jennifer and Alric Twice (all the worst parts of 2000s YA fantasy), or Der Dunkle Schwarm by Marie Grasshoff (somehow uninteresting despite what could be a very compelling world). I can't choose between any of these because none of them really got under my skin, they were just meh in ways I wasn't expecting them to be.

Biggest surprise

The Well by Jake Wyatt; I convinced myself it was going to be mediocre despite the awesome cover, but it's actually my favourite graphic novel of the year so far! The art is gorgeous and the story is a fun spin on traditional quest narratives.

Book that made you cry

Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles. This book reminded me why I don't read sad literary fiction, even though it was really good (highly recommend if you can tolerate it!)

Book that made you happy

A Pho Love Story by Loan Le; I really appreciated how the characters learned to live with their immigrant parents and also the romance was really sweet!

Most beautiful book cover of a book you’ve read so far this year

Either Even Though I Knew The End by C.L. Polk (I am a sucker for vintage anything) or Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas (I am also a sucker for clouds)

How are you doing with your year’s goal?

Don’t have one!

What books do you need to read by the end of the year?

De Profundis, The Secret History, Lord of the Flies, The Origins of Political Order, and After the Victorians (I think I've given up on reading War and Peace, at least for the moment). Oh, and Alecto, when it comes out. (There are, as always, Too Many Books)

(and since they haven't done it yet I tag @maddiesbookshelves and @yourneighborhoodbibliophile (but only if they feel like it))

[multiverseofseries]

Dune

LA RECENSIONE IN BREVE

- Dune mette in scena solo la prima metà del romanzo, gettando solide basi per reggere una storia estremamente complessa.

- Villeneuve prende decisioni che possono piacere o meno, ma dimostra piena consapevolezza della materia narrativa che sta adattando.

- Il minuzioso world building non rappresenta una premessa, ma è essenza stessa di Dune.

«Io sono un seme» è ciò che dice Paul Atreides a circa metà del romanzo scritto da Frank Herbert nel 1965. Una rivelazione indottagli della spezia geriatrica, la droga che altera la percezione spazio-temporale, e che impregna l’aria di Arrakis, o meglio conosciuto come Dune. È in quel momento che il ragazzo smette di essere, improvvisamente, solo un ragazzo. E per la prima volta, Paul, figlio del Duca Leto Atreides e Lady Jessica, educato dalla donna alle sacre vie del Bene Gesserit, esprime consapevolezza di sé, trovando alcune dolorose risposte alle sue domande, nella conclusione del primo arco narrativo del suo personaggio. Primo arco narrativo di molti, tanti quanti sono i nomi con cui verrà chiamato all’interno del libro: Muad'dib, Usul, Lisan al Gaib, Kwisatz Haderach, Madhi. Un seme, creato con un determinato scopo, certo, ma dalla crescita imprevedibile, che penetra in profondità, si diffonde, si trasforma, e modifica il territorio circostante.

Dune di Frank Herbert, è uno dei romanzi di fantascienza più influenti di sempre, il libro ha dato origine a una saga che ha cambiato profondamente l’immaginario collettivo a partire dalle sue fondamenta, è esso stesso un seme. Lo è nel suo modo di contenere tutta una serie di idee, temi, suggestioni, capaci di sbocciare in luoghi e situazioni sempre diverse, senza però perdere specificità. Perché, questa saga, dietro la sua facciata di epica eroica di tradizione classica, che sembra solo apparentemente seguire il monomito, ovvero il viaggio dell’eroe (di cui, in realtà, Dune rappresenta un’aspra critica), la storia di Paul e dei Fremen, il popolo nativo di Arrakis, è invece un romanzo che a volte sembra un trattato di filosofia, di psicologia, di etica o di religione. Altre acquista connotati politici, parlando di lotta di classe e degli effetti del colonialismo, mettendo in discussione sia le figure messianiche che i leader carismatici. Altre ancora assume la forma di un’eco-narrazione che anticipa alcune delle problematiche che oggi sembrano più urgenti che mai.

Anche la prima parte dell’adattamento di Denis Villeneuve, in cui è Timothée Chalamet ad interpretare Paul Atreides, è un seme. O perlomeno, il primo stadio di un qualcosa che sembra destinato ad acquistare forma. È, però, necessario prima piantarlo per poi poter godere dei suoi frutti, ed è quello che Villeneuve ha provato a fare con il suo Dune, che segue piuttosto fedelmente la storia di Herbert, ma risulta anche intimamente villeneuviano,(scusate l’aggettivazione). È qui che forse c’è un equivoco di molti: il ricercare compiutezza in un’opera che per sua natura rappresenta un inizio. Questa versione di Dune è un tentativo di gettare solide basi per reggere una storia ancora più complessa, non tanto nell’intreccio, quanto nella stessa costruzione del suo stesso mondo. Di fatto, si tratta della prima parte di un dittico, e come tale deve essere considerata.

In molti lo hanno ripetuto così tante volte da farlo divenire un logo comune: Dune è un libro impossibile da trasporre al cinema. Potrebbe essere vero ma solo in parte, nel senso che un adattamento presuppone sempre il dover fare alcune scelte, perché a un cambiamento del mezzo di narrazione deve seguire, necessariamente, un cambiamento della stessa materia narrativa. Sta di fatto che il romanzo di Herbert è così denso, stratificato e colto, da per poter essere raccontato in un altre forma che non sia il libro, figuriamoci quella filmica che ha durata limitata. il libro di Herbert lo si può paragonare a un prisma dalle molte facce, che riflettono la luce in modo diverso a seconda di come le si guarda. Ora immaginate di dover dipingere quel prisma. Prima di tutto è necessario scegliere come orientarlo e farlo colpire dalla luce. È quello che fa Villeneuve, insieme ai co-sceneggiatori Jon Spaihts e Eric Roth, prendendo delle decisioni che possono piacere o meno, ma dimostrando una profonda consapevolezza. Mancano dei personaggi questo è vero e alcuni snodi non sono ancora esplicitati, ma non era difficile aspettarsi qualcosa di diverso da questo. 

Il Dune di Frank Herbert è realmente uno strano oggetto letterario. Ha un approccio molto concreto al mondo che racconta, costruendo nei minimi dettagli interi ecosistemi per soffermarsi poi in maniera particolare a delineare il contesto dal punto di vista politico e socio-economico. C’è una parte del romanzo in cui il Duca Leto (nel film interpretato da Oscar Isaac) discute dei salari da offrire agli estrattori di melange, la sostanza presente solo su Arrakis e che permette i viaggi interstellari, il cui monopolio è detenuto dalla Gilda spaziale. Leto ha, infatti, ricevuto dall'Imperatore Padiscià Shaddam IV, che governa l’Universo, l’ordine di trasferirsi dal suo pianeta natale Caladan ad Arrakis, subentrando ai nemici di sempre, gli Harkonnen, per gestire la raccolta di spezia.

Shai Hulud è il termine usato dai Fremen per indicare i vermi delle sabbia, ossia l'incarnazione fisica della loro unica divinità.

Si tratta di una scena, quella di cui sopra, rievocata nel film di Villeneuve di sfuggita, con una sola linea di dialogo, non particolarmente importante ai fini della trama, eppure per me sufficiente per comprendere il tono dell’adattamento. Una situazione che poco c’entra con una storia nota per le atmosfere lisergiche e un certo gusto per l’eccesso, elementi enfatizzati dai due prodotti culturali più noti legati al libro: il grandioso e folle progetto naufragato di Jodorowsky nel 1975, raccontato in Jodorowsky's Dune, documentario del 2013 di Frank Pavich, e l’affascinante quando confuso disastro di David Lynch con Kyle MacLachlan del 1984 - a cui, nonostante tutto, voglio benissimo, anche solo per aver ispirato l’avventura grafica omonima, quella sì un capolavoro, di Cryo Interactive del 1992.

Dune è anche questo: l’approccio è spesso pragmatico, l'atmosfera più mistica che lisergica, il tono più solenne che eccessivo. Il film di Villeneuve è così, presenta un’austera grandiosità estetica, coerente con la visione d’insieme. La fotografia di Greig Fraser è caratterizzata da toni scuri, metallici e terrosi, mentre nella scenografia ricorrono forme geometriche e massicce, soprattutto negli edifici di Arrakeen, modellati sulle ziqqurat mesopotamiche, o nei fregi dei palazzi che ricordano i bassorilievi neoassiri. Antichità e futuro si incontrano quasi per alludere a un tempo fuori dal tempo, e non si è  fuori strada si parlasse di «tempo del mito». Mentre il vasto deserto, territorio dei Fremen dei giganteschi Shai Hulud, i vermi della sabbia, fa il resto.

Anche se narrativamente sobrio, Dune colpisce per la semplicità con cui racconta gli eventi, senza banalizzare o semplificare una vicenda parecchio strutturata già di per se. Villeneuve fa delle scelte e, per esempio, tutto il contesto religioso (e in particolare il ruolo del Bene Gesserit, ordine religioso matriarcale che muove i destini dell’Impero e che sarà al centro di una serie TV attualmente in pre-produzione), viene relegato un po’ sullo sfondo, presente solo in alcune pennellate. È anche vero che il libro è fatto di parole, pensieri, annotazioni. D’altronde, ogni capitolo del libro è corredato da estratti tratti dai testi storiografici della principessa Irulan, figlia dell’imperatore. Mentre il film di Villeneuve, puntuale nell’esporre l’intreccio, costruisce il suo mondo e delinea i rapporti anche attraverso sogni, allusioni, piccoli dettagli e, soprattutto, sguardi e gesti. Un linguaggio corporeo che va a sostituire il flusso costante di pensieri dei personaggi letterari.

Il Bene Gesserit è la sorellanza che muove i destini dell'Impero, il cui compito è quello di incrociare e conservare le linee genetiche delle casate.

Villeneuve utilizza così le lingue, anche quelle dei gesti, in modo fluido, forse anche più del romanzo, dove l'uso di nomi e termini mutuati dalla lingua araba erano comunque fondamentali nella costruzione culturale di Arrakis. Ma non è la prima volta che il regista dimostra una certa attenzione verso tematiche come il valore fondante del linguaggio nell’identificazione culturale, il suo ruolo nell’intrecciare relazioni e la possibilità di alterare la percezione del mondo. Lo aveva fatto nel suo film più peculiare: Arrival del 2016. Che anche in quel caso si trattava di un testo letterario molto difficile da trasporre. A Villeneuve, del resto, piacciono le sfide e spesso non sembra nemmeno interessato a dare al pubblico quello che vuole o si aspetta.

Riprendendo il discorso sul linguaggio, e in particolare a come nel film è stata resa la famosa Voce, ossia una tecnica Bene Gesserit che influenza il subcoscio di chi l’ascolta attraverso la modulazione del tono, presta il fianco anche a un altro aspetto dell’opera che non lascia indifferenti: suono e colonna sonora contribuiscono in maniera attiva alla definizione del mondo stesso. Il sound designer Theo Green, che aveva già lavorato con Villeneuve in Blade Runner 2049, fa qui un lavoro impressionante nel modulare intensità e volume, giocando con l’assenza di suono in brevi, ma significativi momenti. In questo, lavora in sinergia con Hans Zimmer, che compone una roboante colonna sonora, certamente ingombrante, ma di grande importanza narrativa. Il risultato è una base sonora costante, granulosa e avvolgente su cui si innesta il racconto, e che dà costantemente la sensazione di arrancare e sprofondare nelle sabbie di Arrakis.

Giocando sulla contrapposizione tra i campi lunghi degli sconfinati paesaggi, i primi piani e dei dettagli, la macchina da presa indugia spesso sui volti dei personaggi e in particolare gli occhi. Sono gli occhi blu - per effetto della spezia geriatrica - di Chani (Zendaya) che appare nei sogni di Paul; quelli del popolo di Arrakis che accoglie il giovane duca al suo arrivo sul pianeta al grido di Lisan al-Gaib, «la voce da un altro mondo»; quelli forti, consapevoli ma spaventati di Jessica, mentre cerca di far convivere gli obiettivi del Bene Gesserit con i propri, in un’interpretazione notevolissima di Rebecca Ferguson.

I Fremen sono i misteriosi abitanti di Arrakis. Vivono in insediamenti segreti chiamati sietch.

Timothée Chalamet è un Paul abbastanza coerente con il personaggio del libro, ma forse troppo monocorde. Di certo, non ha avuto la possibilità di emergere completamente. In questa parte della storia, Paul è un ragazzo in balia di forze che hanno segnato il suo destino, alla ricerca di se stesso.

La vera sfida d’altronde, non è cercare il Dune di Frank Herbert in quello di Villeneuve, ma provare a capire cosa il regista stia cercando di dirci attraverso Dune. In questa prima parte di un progetto più articolato, si può certamente intuire il percorso intrapreso da Villeneuve, all’interno dei tanti offerti da Frank Herbert. È un seme, come detto in precedenza, e bisogna capire dove piantarlo e cosa nascerà.

È comunque difficile guardare a un film come il Dune di Denis Villeneuve senza però sentire la voce di tutta la tradizione precedente e senza farsi influenzare dal peso dell’opera originale o dalle visioni dei diversi autori. Dune è, forse esagerando, il Gilgamesh del nostro tempo, o almeno la cosa più simile a un poema mitologico declinato in forma post-moderna. Contiene, come le grandi epopee antiche, molti dei temi della cultura da cui ha preso forma. Ma allo stesso tempo, è uno dei principali modelli per tutte le storie di fantascienza che sono venute dopo. Non solo un libro inadattabile ma il libro che forse più di tutti può ambire allo status di mito, quando si parla di narrazione investita di sacralità e significatività. A livello estetico, il film è eccezionale. Si questa solennità può essere, in un certo senso, interpretata come mancanza di originalità, ma in verità credo che la forza di questo adattamento di Dune sia nelle cose molto più piccole. Proprio nei piccoli dettagli sullo sfondo, nei gesti dei personaggi che hanno tutti, sempre un significato, nonostante esso spesso non sia esplicitato. Nella cura con cui una parola, detta in un determinato modo, alluda invece a un mondo intero. In questa storia, del resto, il world building non rappresenta solamente una premessa ma ne è essenza stessa. Quello che manca in un film che forse sarebbe stato meglio chiamare Dune Parte I è, letteralmente, l’epica. Ma quella verrà dopo, perché in questa fase della storia non era prevista. In questa fase abbiamo il racconto di una crisi, dello smarrimento, di morte e rinascita. L’epica verrà dopo, si spera.

[elijah-loyal]

(reposting from original bc it sounds fun)

How many have you read?

The BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Reblog this and bold the titles you’ve read.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkein

3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffeneger

20 Middlemarch – George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis

34 Emma – Jane Austen

35 Persuasion – Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne

41 Animal Farm – George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving

45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding

50 Atonement – Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel 52 Dune – Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

72 Dracula – Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses – James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal – Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession – AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchel

83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks

94 Watership Down – Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

[dune-parte-due-streaming-1080p]

Dune - Parte due

✔️ 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐑𝐀 𝐐𝐔𝐈 ▶ https://t.co/HiXUItbbFM

:: Trama Dune 2 ::

Paul Atreides si unisce ai Fremen e inizia un viaggio spirituale e marziale per diventare Muad'dib, mentre cerca di prevenire l'orribile ma inevitabile futuro di cui è testimone: una Guerra Santa in suo nome, che si diffonde in tutto l'universo conosciuto.

Un film (in Italiano anche pellicola) è una serie di immagini che, dopo essere state registrate su uno o più supporti cinematografici e una volta proiettate su uno schermo, creano l'illusione di un'immagine in movimento.[1] Questa illusione ottica permette a colui che guarda lo schermo, nonostante siano diverse immagini che scorrono in rapida successione, di percepire un movimento continuo.

Il processo di produzione cinematografica viene considerato ad oggi sia come arte che come un settore industriale. Un film viene materialmente creato in diversi metodi: riprendendo una scena con una macchina da presa, oppure fotografando diversi disegni o modelli in miniatura utilizzando le tecniche tradizionali dell'animazione, oppure ancora utilizzando tecnologie moderne come la CGI e l'animazione al computer, o infine grazie ad una combinazione di queste tecniche.

L'immagine in movimento può eventualmente essere accompagnata dal suono. In tale caso il suono può essere registrato sul supporto cinematografico, assieme all'immagine, oppure può essere registrato, separatamente dall'immagine, su uno o più supporti fonografici.

Con la parola cinema (abbreviazione del termine inglese cinematography, "cinematografia") ci si è spesso normalmente riferiti all'attività di produzione dei film o all'arte a cui si riferisce. Ad oggi con questo termine si definisce l'arte di stimolare delle esperienze per comunicare idee, storie, percezioni, sensazioni, il bello o l'atmosfera attraverso la registrazione o il movimento programmato di immagini insieme ad altre stimolazioni sensoriali.[2]

In origine i film venivano registrati su pellicole di materiale plastico attraverso un processo fotochimico che poi, grazie ad un proiettore, si rendevano visibili su un grande schermo. Attualmente i film sono spesso concepiti in formato digitale attraverso tutto l'intero processo di produzione, distribuzione e proiezione.

Il film è un artefatto culturale creato da una specifica cultura, riflettendola e, al tempo stesso, influenzandola. È per questo motivo che il film viene considerato come un'importante forma d'arte, una fonte di intrattenimento popolare ed un potente mezzo per educare (o indottrinare) la popolazione. Il fatto che sia fruibile attraverso la vista rende questa forma d'arte una potente forma di comunicazione universale. Alcuni film sono diventati popolari in tutto il mondo grazie all'uso del doppiaggio o dei sottotitoli per tradurre i dialoghi del film stesso in lingue diverse da quella (o quelle) utilizzata nella sua produzione.

Le singole immagini che formano il film sono chiamate "fotogrammi". Durante la proiezione delle tradizionali pellicole di celluloide, un otturatore rotante muove la pellicola per posizionare ogni fotogramma nella posizione giusta per essere proiettato. Durante il processo, fra un frammento e l'altro vengono creati degli intervalli scuri, di cui però lo spettatore non nota la loro presenza per via del cosiddetto effetto della persistenza della visione: per un breve periodo di tempo l'immagine permane a livello della retina. La percezione del movimento è dovuta ad un effetto psicologico definito come "fenomeno Phi".