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This digital document is an article from Skeptic (Altadena, CA), published by Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1353 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Klaatu Gort redux: the remake of a classic film The Day the Earth Stood Still delivers a modern warning wrapped in an ancient myth.(Movie review)
Author: Michael Shermer
Publication: Skeptic (Altadena, CA) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine
Volume: 14Issue: 4Page: 68(3)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on July 12, 1999. The length of the article is 576 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thriller en un universo electrónico: Matrix.(TT: Thriller in an electronic universe: Matrix.)
Author: Pedro Crespo
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 12, 1999
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Thomson Gale on December 21, 2003. The length of the article is 2035 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pantalla grande.(Resena de pelicula)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 21, 2003
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 9Issue: 564Page: 35(1)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on February 16, 1998. The length of the article is 739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pactar con el diablo.(TT: The Devil's Advocate)
Author: Pedro Crespo
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 16, 1998
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: n677Page: p66(1)

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This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 662 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Great Warming.(Movie review)
Author: Suzanne Hunt
Publication: World Watch (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
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Volume: 20Issue: 1Page: 31(1)

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Saving THE Idea
This movie itself is a standard set of usual threats believers in human-made climate change present professionally.

A feature is interesting for some engineering updates collated worldwide also idea of humans stopping a natural planetary process is an absurdity even from a viewpoint of divine backgrounds clergymen screened proclaimed.
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on December 12, 2008. The length of the article is 395 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: La peor ciencia ficciôn.(Ultimâtum a la Tierra)(Reseòa de pelîcula)
Author: Belên Ester Casas
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 12, 2008
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Issue: 1224Page: 94(1)

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on November 19, 2000. The length of the article is 783 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Equipo a la fuerza.(TT: Team by the force.)(Reseña)
Author: Pedro Crespo
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 19, 2000
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The original tale of the tragic visit to Earth by Klaatu, an emissary from space.Adapted into the 1951 film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” ... Read more

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Nothing like either movie.
Short easy read. But don't be disappointed when you find out it's nothing like either
the older or latest movie.

The ending is completely different. A bit of an overused "trick".
This type of ending, has been used successfully on the old Twilight Zone and Outer limits several times
but now seems "dated".(Beingwritten in 1940 I believe.)

First time I've read a book where the movie seem to offer more than the original book.

Hey it's short. It's fast and easy to read. Just nothing like movie.

I read it because the orginal movie had such an affect on me as a child.
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Wired Magazine back issue, March 2006: 13 Ways to Lower your IQ, LAPD's Teched-out Cruisers, How Digital Animation Conquered Hollywood, A Nation of Guinea Pigs, more... ... Read more

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Kindle edition of Bram Stoker's classic work. Includes an active table of contents.Amazon.com Review
Dracula is one of the few horror books to be honored byinclusion in the Norton Critical Edition series. (The others areFrankenstein, The Turn of the Screw, Heart ofDarkness, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and TheMetamorphosis.) This 100th-anniversary edition includes not onlythe complete authoritative text of the novel with illuminatingfootnotes, but also four contextual essays, five reviews from the timeof publication, five articles on dramatic and film variations, andseven selections from literary and academic criticism. Nina Auerbachof the University of Pennsylvania (author of Our Vampires,Ourselves) and horror scholar David J. Skal (author of Hollywood Gothic,The MonsterShow, and Screams of Reason) are the editors of thevolume. Especially fascinating are excerpts from materials that BramStoker consulted in his research for the book, and his working papersover the several years he was composing it. The selection of criticismincludes essays on how Dracula deals with female sexuality,gender inversion, homoerotic elements, and Victorian fears of"reverse colonization" by politically turbulentTransylvania. ... Read more

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awesome
This was one of the best books that I had to read for anthro. Keeps you interested about what's going to happen next. Very interesting and a good book

WOW!Fantastic!
Just reading Count Dracula's greeting, "Welcome to my house.Come freely.Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!" gave me chills as well as fantastically visual descriptions of the Count and the atmosphere.I was also glad that I had not had much exposure to the diluted, popularized versions of Vampire movies and contemporary Vampire trends, therefore was unaffected.This is a fantastically entertaining book, and not only about the Vampire but actually more about the characters and the culture, and the journal style of narratives by different characters works very well to really capture the experiences of horror, valor,faith, and intelligence of the characters. I actually think that Mina is the most interesting one that has multiple and sophisticated elements---somewhat of a martyr, ideal Victorian woman, and at the same time with a sharp analytical and investigave mind-- which is rather surprising considering the Victorian culture.The writing is so beautiful and clever that extreme violence, gore and sexuality that could have easily been over the top, are not disruptive of the story, or of the underlying concepts of eternal life through Christ's blood and the eternal youth and life through destruction.What a great treat!

"For the dead travel fast"
Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast" is more than an opening line to this tale of love in the dangerous moon light. After watching several Drac movies and a few Nosferatu's, I pretty much though I had a handle on the genera.Little did I know what a wonderful world of mystery and suspense that Bram Stoker opened up for me.

The story is told mostly third party though the papers, diaries, and phonograph recordings (on wax cylinders) of those people involve in a tale so bizarre that it almost defies belief.The general story line is that of a Count that plans to move to a more urban setting (from Borgo Pass to London) where there is a richer diet. There he finds succulent women; something he can sing his teeth in. Unfortunately for him a gang of ruffians (including a real-estate agent, asylum director, Texas cowboy and an Old Dutch abnormal psychologist) is out to detour his nocturnal munching.They think they have Drac on the run but with a wing and a prayer he is always one step ahead.

Of more value to the reader is the rich prose chosen by Stoker as he describes the morals and technology of the time. We have to come to grips with or decide if we can perform the rituals that are required to eliminate vampires verses the impropriety of opening graves and staking loved ones. The powers in the book differ from the movie versions in that they are more of persuasion and capabilities to manipulate the local weather. At one point the Dutch Dr. Van Helsing, is so overwhelmed by a beautiful vampire laying in the grave that he almost for gets why he is there and may become vamp chow.

All in all the story is more in the cunning chase. And the question as to will they succeed or will Dracula triumph.Remember "For the dead travel fast."

Dracula

Past its prime and victorian to boot!
I don't especially care for scary movies or books, so I've avoided this book over the years. However, with the preponderance of vampire lit in our culture I thought I'd finally crack the binding of this book. I didn't find it particularly spine-chilling or evocative-- perhaps I'm deadened to such paltry imagery summoned here compared with our modern mediums. Still, the plot was decent and as the progenitor of so much culture within the hoi polloi it is consistent with the recommendation of a must read.

Reads Better Than Most Modern Horror
Please read this instead of these wonky modern vampire books. Although it was written in the 19th century it flows in a modern way and the first 50 pages are the best opening of any book in horror history.
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The complete book about the life of Academy Award nominee River Phoenix, from his parents beginning, his birth, member of a cult religion, to his TV acting, activism, veganism and movie career. ... Read more

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interesting and in-depth
I'm glad I purchased this book. It has been interesting to read the stories that River's friends, family, and co-workers provided.Upon reading the description of the time leading up to and including River's death, I could feel my heart beat faster and I was unable to stop myself from reading. This is a real page-turner. Highly recommended.

This book is really poorly written, and disturbing
Did anyone else find this book disturbing in a way the author probably didn't intend?It may have some interesting information for River fans, but it is compiled in an awful way-- not even basic journalistic information flow.Must be why it looks like it was home-published.
But after about 100 pages, I couldn't pick it up without a sick feeling in my stomach.I mean, the beginning is about the criminally abusive cult that River's parents raised him in until he was 5 or something, which encouraged and forced children to have sex with each other and any adult, in the name of "sharing."Of course that is simply a disturbing fact of River's childhood.But I started to realize there was something in the WAY the author wrote about it, and moreover in the CHOICES of the horrifying cartoons which were distributed among the cult to encourage sexualizing of children...and then it came down to all the pictures of River the author included throughout the book, which are all fairly pedophilic.It really seems to me that the author is sexually obsessed with the terminally adolescent River Phoenix, and this book was his indulgence of that obsession.Ewwww.
It's just really hard to read anyway, it's so poorly written.But it's the constant focus on River's pubescent sex life, sexual development, and pubescent sex-symbol status that makes me cringe.I wouldn't even give it one star, since I couldn't get through it.

One step closer to River Phoenix
River Phoenix was a special guy... And if you miss him, it's meant to be. Right?

"Since his death early on Halloween morning, 1993, something phenomenal has been happening. All over the world, men and women of different persuasions and colors, from different countries, with different religious beliefs and political backgrounds, are experiencing a confounding fascination with River Jude Phoenix."

Yes, one of them is me.
But the strangest thing is... I didn't know Phoenix until 2008, when he appeared in my dream.
(I was very young when he died... and growing up in a small town in The Netherlands: I never paid any attention to what was going on in Hollywood. I didn't even know a place like that existed).

I started reading almost everything that was written about him. And the more I read, the more frustrated I got. Those books were about Phoenix's dwell on his downfall. Pointing fingers: who's to blame?
I don't think Phoenix threw away his life on purpose. And also, I don't think his family is responsible for his death. (Does it matter anymore? He's gone).

That's when I bumped into Barry Lawrence's book on the internet. Barry experienced almost the same thing as I did and he decided to search for the truth behind the myth.
I have read a lot about River and in the meanwhile I watched everything about/with him. 'In Search of River Phoenix: The Truth About The Myth' is the only book that comes close to a comprehensive view about the life of River Phoenix.
But still... No book or no one can give you the ultimate truth. There is only interpretation. And Barry C. Lawrence's interpretation is a good and objective one and he did his best to try to understand a life that was so far away from anything resembling normally.

The book takes you along the journey of River's life through his various movies, charity work and his musical accomplishments. 'In Search of River Phoenix: The Truth About The Myth' is a good read, even if you never heard of Phoenix.

River Phoenix is fantastic .
River's story is haunting and you are always wishing he had a better childhood.His lack of education was 100% his parents fault, not his.I am really enjoying this book.

The Best of River
Few books begin their journey to publication with the foundations of Barry C. Lawrence's IN SEARCH OF RIVER PHOENIX: THE TRUTH BEYOND THE MYTH? with a dream out of nowhere? yet a powerful dream in which the dead actor River Phoenix asked Lawrence to discover the truth about his life led to a years-long,in-depth probe of River's short life and many films: a probe which was to involve Lawrence with River's closest friends, family members, and fellow actors. You don't have to be a River fan to appreciate IN SEARCH OF RIVER PHOENIX: it reads like a novel, with all the drama, action, and yes, even intrigue . Lawrence's goal was to dispel the veil of myths surroundingRiver's short life, and reveal the realities and facts of his controversial short life and career--and Lawrence achieves this and more in an exciting blend of drama and documentary: classic docu-drama translated to print. Highly recommended.
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pretty good for a movie book
This movie sort of started a cyberpunk trend
and has become an historical document.
The book expands on the short story like many of Philip K. Dick stories became movies
in the past:Blade Runner.
Hacking and the web have since become household words.
The movie and book are both sort of fantastic plastic in the future...

Bad. Really, really bad.
I'm generally a fan of Terry Bisson's work, especially his short stories ("Bears Discover Fire" is great), but this novel-based-on-a-movie-based-on-a-short-story is just embarrassing. The film was a mostly incoherent rendering of William Gibson's very good story (even though Gibson himself wrote the screenplay); I suspect Bill's stuff just doesn't translate well to the screen. This novelization (why bother?) has all the film's confusion and none of Gibson's trademark style and atmosphere. Worse, Bisson throws in some minor bits and pieces of his own invention. I couldn't get more than one-third into this before quitting in annoyance.

BRILLIANT ADAPTATION
When viewing the film, I always thought that Johnny Mnemonic could have been more. The script laid out a world as amazing and dark as BLADE RUNNER, but the film itself was a cheap piece of trash.

With Terry Bisson'snovelization, we can see the world missing from the film. Wonderfulcharacters. Gritty surroundings. Cyberspace.

Bisson's prose is as rich asthat of cyber-guru William Gibson (who wrote the screenplay). He evenborrows a few frazes and slangs from Gibsons other works.

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