The Baltimore Boys
Book
Fresh from the staggering success of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR, Marcus Goldman is...
Fiction
Hitler's Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery
Book
How Hitler's spy chief sabotaged the German war effort. Wilhelm Canaris was appointed by Hitler to...
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts
Book
Just My Type is not just a font book, but a book of stories. About how Helvetica and Comic Sans took...
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle
Tabletop Game
Description from the publisher: The forces of evil are threatening to overrun Hogwarts castle in...
David McK (3222 KP) rated I Am Legend in Books
Jul 7, 2019 (Updated Mar 19, 2023)
Of those, I was aware of only Charlton Heston's The Omega Man and Will Smith's I Am Legend, only having seen the latter. I'm also aware that that film also deviates from the source material (when do they not!), with the book describing the pandemic as (more-or-less) turning people into vampires rather than the zombies of the film. In both cases, Robert Neville seems to be immune to the virus, and is trying to work out how to cure it, while seemingly the last human being on the planet. The two versions, however, also end rather differently, with the novell(a) suiting the title 'I am legend' (and explaining why) more than the movie does!
Winston Churchill - the Wilderness Years: A Lone Voice Against Hitler in the Prelude to War
Book
In 1928, Winston Churchill was at the height of his career. Chancellor of the Exchequer and a...
Inside Coca-Cola
Neville Isdell and George Witte
Book
The first book by a Coca-Cola CEO tells the remarkable story of the company's revival. Neville...
Distributed Cognition and Reality: How Pilots and Crews Make Decisions
Book
Distributed Cognition and Reality puts theory into practice, as the first book to show how to apply...
ClareR (5589 KP) rated The Queen’s Rival in Books
Dec 16, 2022
I liked the way this was set out: from the letters between characters, to the fictional England’s Chronicle (which had some great sarcastic comments).
Cecile Neville, Duchess of York, was Edward IV and Richard III’s mother. She lived through some pretty turbulent times, and must have feared for her own and the lives of her children on several occasions. But she always remained true to her husband and their belief that they were the true rulers of the realm. What a time to have lived!
The emotions were so well conveyed, the historical information so well explained, and it never felt like a history lesson. Just a really great read!
Fergie: The Greatest
Book
The story of Sir Alex Ferguson is a true rags-to-riches fairytale. When he announced he was to step...