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World War Z by Max Brooks - Movie News

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks
Paramount has set Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster to helm World War Z, based on the Max Brooks best-selling novel about a worldwide infestation of flesh-eating zombies, Variety reported.
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is writing the screenplay, and Brad Pitt’s Plan [...]

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The First Person and other stories by Ali Smith - Review

The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith
Ali Smith writes mainly about love - and the stories lovers tell, forget, hold on to and take over. She refers frequently to the mechanics of storytelling; never to the mechanics of sex. Names of characters are used more sparingly than the language of officialdom. A sick [...]

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Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio - Review

Reasonable Doubts by Gianrico Carofiglio
Reasonable Doubts is the third novel featuring Bari lawyer Guido Guerrieri. He is in his forties and on his own, without a woman in his life or any close friends. Reasonable Doubts is a first-person account, and much of it centres on Guerrieri’s thoughts and doubts as he muddles along. Conveniently, [...]

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SOMETHING TO TELL YOU by Hanif Kureishi - Review

Something to Tell You: A Novel by Hanif Kureishi
A good piece of advice to authors of first-person novels comes from John Dowell, the hapless narrator of Ford Madox Ford’s “The Good Soldier.” Trying to decide how best to tell his story, Dowell settles on a tried-and-true approach. “So I shall just imagine myself for a [...]

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