Full of sex, violence and mysticism, Rhodesian-born bestselling author Wilbur Smith takes a look at ancient Egypt through the eyes of an emasculated slave named Taita. Although there is an afterward that makes it seem as if the events in the book really happened, River God (1994) is a work of historical fiction at a ...
As a student learning how to read and write Latin, it is fascinating to me how much of our English language derives from it. Not only does Latin constitute a large chunk of English’s word origins, but there are many Latin phrases that still pop up in everyday speech. I have devised a small guide ...
“Night Play” is the ninth book in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Dark Hunter series, which has received a great deal of acclaim from fans of supernatural fiction as well as romance fiction. In this book Vane, one of the myriad shape-changers that populate the series, has recently escaped from being staked out for vampires along with his ...
Doctor Strange has always been one of the most difficult characters to write in the world of comics. As many Superman writers will attest to, it is a challenge to create interest in a character that is essentially invincible. The difficulty in writing a Doctor Strange story comes in writing him as anything other than ...
The first quarter of 2011 is full of new video game releases. Some of these game were delayed and originally slated for the holiday season of 2010. What can gamers look forward to in the early months of the year? Here’s some of the most anticipated early 2011 video games. Portal 2 Releasing on February ...
There are many people who don’t know what it means to write well. Some people think that writing is simply putting pen to paper. Others think writing means sitting down at the computer and beginning to type. Others confuse proper search engine optimization or editing with writing. Others confuse good writing with proper spelling and ...
It’s a wonder how sinkholes have been avoided as a catastrophe device in disaster movies. The reason may be because the disaster film prefers something that can be seen dominating the earth from above rather than from below. Only the earthquake managed to be the closest thing to terra firma that’s been depicted leaving behind ...
It is clear to anyone that reads Tartuffe, that the speech given by the Officer in Act 5, Scene 7 toward the end of the play is a deus ex machina mechanism. Simply put, the speech is there to resolve the complications in the plot. There can be little doubt of this since the passage ...
