Books: Classics
Currently listing articles 95-51:
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Book Review: The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris— Analyzing the human as an animal, from the view of a zoologist, rather than the more common means of a psychologist or sociologist.
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DVD Review: Sense and Sensibility— This adaptation will hopefully encourage others to read the book who might not have done so before.
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Book Review: Binu And The Great Wall by Su Tong— A beautiful and magical story cut with the sharp taste of reality; a perfect myth.
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Comic Book Review: Graphic Classics Free Comic Book Day Sampler— A solid sampling of graphic literary adaptations gets released for Free Comic Book Day.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part Three— The 21st century could use more Thoreau.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part Two— "Simplify! Simplify!" Is more complex than you think.
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Nintendo Wii Review: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None— This Adventure Company game features engaging puzzles, high level challenges and, surprise, adventure, just don’t try to complete it in one day.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part One— Thoreau calls us to simplify and it's one we should heed, now more than ever.
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The Great Book Adventure: Peter Pan - Part Two— Between Captain Hook and Peter Pan is Wendy and a word of caution.
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Penguin Pushes the Envelope— Classic books get a new-media treatment.
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Book Review: Creators - From Chaucer and Dürer to Picasso and Disney by Paul Johnson— "It is frightening to enter your workroom early in the morning and face an empty canvas, a blank sheet of paper, or a score sheet..."
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The Great Book Adventure: Peter Pan - Part One— It turns out the Neverland isn't quite what we expected.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part Three— With Charles Dickens and Bleak House, time is on your side.
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Book Review: Things Fall Apart, 50th Anniversary Edition by Chinua Achebe— Fifty years later, Chinua Achebe's powerful novel still reveals a region torn by colonialism.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part Two— Caught in a web of personalities in which I’m willingly tangled...
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Book Review: Mysteries of the Middle Ages - The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe by Thomas Cahill— Thomas Cahill goes Medievel on readers...
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Book Review: Playboy Cover to Cover - The '50s— A must-have for serious collectors and casual fans.
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The Great Book Adventure: Bleak House - Part One
— How great is Charles Dickens? Is Bleak House a masterpiece? The Great Book Adventure continues...
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part Three— At the end of it all, is The Picture of Dorian Gray worth reading?
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part Two— Dorian Gray falls under Lord Harry's influence, to more than just his picture's detriment.
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The Great Book Adventure: The Picture of Dorian Gray - Part One— The Picture of Dorian Gray opens with mixed results.
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Loading the Canon, or The Preamble to the Great Book Adventure— What makes great books great? Is the western canon still valid? Let the adventure begin.
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George MacDonald Fraser Has Told His Last Tale— Fraser is dead. Long live Flash Harry.
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Pablo Neruda's 100 Sonnets of Love: 1 (A Translation)— In translating Neruda's poems, I was mindful of how each of his sonnets is an unruly flame, moving the way the emotions so often do.
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Comics Anthology: Graphic Classics: Mark Twain - edited by Tom Pomplun— An edition of Twain adaptations takes Tom Sawyer to the Middle East and shows the American humorist at his grimmest.
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Christians Lose Their Compass: A Closer Look At Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy— Pullman raises issues which we should be embracing, such as the importance of free will and the danger of religious oligarchy.
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Book Review: The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon— Robert McCammon continues his series of colonial-era tales, and the result is one of the best novels of the year.
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Theater Review (LA): Twist by Gila Sands and Paul Leschen at the Avery Schreiber Theatre— Oliver gets twisted and has a Dickens of a time.
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Book Review: The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps, Edited by Otto Penzler— Paying a mere $25 seems almost a crime itself.
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Hero Worship: From Disciple to Archetypal— Everyone needs a hero in their life, whether it's flesh-and-blood inspiration or more mythic in the way it materializes.
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Book Review: The Beautiful Cigar Girl - Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower— Life is what happens when you’re busy pitching other plot proposals. As Edgar Allan Poe was to find out with "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt"...
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Book Review: Pride and Prejudice (Insight Edition) by Jane Austen— This annotated Insight Edition of Jane Austen’s beloved classic gives the reader brief definitions of certain terms, customs, and history behind words used.
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Movie Review: Beowulf - Classic Meets Modern Technology— Director Robert Zemeckis uses the same digital motion capture technology in The Polar Express to adapt the classic tale of Beowulf.
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Book Review: Due Considerations - Essays and Criticism by John Updike— John Updike is not prolific. John Updike is prodigious.
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Book Review: Darcy & Elizabeth - Nights and Days at Pemberley by Linda Berdoll— Berdoll has a gift for creating larger than life characters and complex plot lines in her second sequel to Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
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How Peter Pan Met Captain Hook - An Interview with Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson— Tom Parsons talks to the authors of the best-selling Starcatchers' trilogy about the final installment.
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Book Review: Just Jane by Nancy Moser— Fans of fictional biography in general and Jane Austen in particular are sure to be delighted.
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Reflections of a Recidivist Fangirl— From Illya Kuryakin to Gregory House (played by David McCallum and Hugh Laurie, respectively) — four decades of fangirl crushes exposed.
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Dr. Gregory House: Romantic Hero— Like Bronte’s Rochester, Gregory House is a Romantic Hero.
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There is Life in Inanimate Objects— That is, if you're a novelist.
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The Bionic Woman Meets James Joyce— Can the English literary canon withstand the onslaught of the Bionic Woman?
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Harry Potter Author "Outs" Dumbledore: Why Should It Matter?— Harry Potter's headmaster was gay. Why all the fuss?
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DVD Review: Macbeth— An aggressive adaptation.
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DVD Review: Robin Of Sherwood Set 2— These are by far the best adaptations of the Robin Hood story made yet.
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So You Think You've Changed Do You?— I should be writing something else right now but I am not.
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