I have written 12 books, 2 screenplays, directed a feature, and produced 2 movies. My foundation for any creative work I create, is an original story, a justified conflict, and interesting characters. If I don’t have anything original to create, I feel it’s better not to write something that has already been written before. My journey in life has taken me into multiple cultures, countries, continents, these journeys have fueled me with experiences that helped me with the eclectic nature of the books I write.
I love this book because it has one of the most interesting characters ever, in one of the most original stories I have ever read. I love any book that has something new I can learn from and Shōgun, takes you into old Japan and subtly makes you fall in love with it. The book taught me storytelling from the introspective angle of the characters. The book helped me become a writer, it put a floodlight on the two most important things in a novel for me, the story and the characters.
'Clavell never puts a foot wrong . . . Get it, read it, you'll enjoy it mightily' Daily Mirror
This is James Clavell's tour-de-force; an epic saga of one Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Both entertaining and incisive, SHOGUN is a stunningly dramatic re-creation of a very different world.
Starting with his shipwreck on this most alien of shores, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from the status of reviled foreigner up to the hights of trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai. All as civil war looms over the fragile country.
I highly recommend this novel, because it has this perfect balance between religion and science through the eyes of the protagonist. A testimony to how great the book is, it has been imitated multiple times in movies, television, and parodies. I truly enjoyed following the protagonist trying to figure out scientific answers to supernatural questions. The book tends to make you ask questions about demonic possession juxtaposed to mental health.
Father Damien Karras: 'Where is Regan?' Regan MacNeil: 'In here. With us.'
The terror begins unobtrusively. Noises in the attic. In the child's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, an icy chill. At first, easy explanations are offered. Then frightening changes begin to appear in eleven-year-old Regan. Medical tests fail to shed any light on her symptoms, but it is as if a different personality has invaded her body.
Father Damien Karras, a Jesuit priest, is called in. Is it possible that a demonic presence has possessed the child? Exorcism seems to be the only answer...
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
This novel is such a fertile work of art, that shows the universal nature of humanity. The author takes us into Nigeria, during the colonization by the British Empire and the fight by the protagonists to keep traditional customs with the changing landscapes. I loved the sophistication with which Chinua Achebe took us into colonial Africa and made us become one with the weight of the traditions of that time.
This novel was such a glorious rollercoaster. The book tells the story of the events from the point of view of both protagonists. The uniqueness of the novel comes through a little past the middle and the best part of the book is that it just gets better from that point.
THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER AND INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON OVER 20 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE THE BOOK THAT DEFINES PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER
Who are you? What have we done to each other?
These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on…
Twelve-year-old identical twins Ellie and Kat accidentally trigger their physicist mom’s unfinished time machine, launching themselves into a high-stakes adventure in 1970 Chicago. If they learn how to join forces and keep time travel out of the wrong hands, they might be able find a way home. Ellie’s gymnastics and…
This novel shows the mastery of Michael Crichton, he takes such a complicated topic and creates a fictional novel that could be understandable by an elementary student. The story is solid but for me what makes the book a masterpiece is how fluid the story intersects with the science. Once you finish the book, you feel a lot wiser, not just from the science but from the standpoint of humanity.
'Crichton's most compulsive novel' Sunday Telegraph 'Crichton's dinosaurs are genuinely frightening' Chicago Sun-Times 'Breathtaking adventure. . . a book that is as hard to put down as it is to forget' Time Out
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The international bestseller that inspired the Jurassic Park film franchise.
On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park.
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge.
144 Million people disappear from the planet in the blink of an eye. Every human being left on earth has become immortal, there are no more births, mythical gods roam the earth as mortals and Death resides in the penthouse of the Ferguson Hotel.
This is the fourth book in the Joplin/Halloran forensic mystery series, which features Hollis Joplin, a death investigator, and Tom Halloran, an Atlanta attorney.
It's August of 2018, shortly after the Republican National Convention has nominated Donald Trump as its presidential candidate. Racial and political tensions are rising, and so…
“Rowdy” Randy Cox, a woman staring down the barrel of retirement, is a curmudgeonly blue-collar butch lesbian who has been single for twenty years and is trying to date again.
At the end of a long, exhausting shift, Randy finds her supervisor, Bryant, pinned and near death at the warehouse…
