http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/books/page/1/ A Site About Moovies, Moosic and Food... en Vox Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:18:43 +0800 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jools) http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005.html?_c=feed-rss http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:18:43 +0800 <p>Book Description: In Misery (1987), as in The Shining (1977), a writer is trapped in an evil house during a Colorado winter. Each novel bristles with claustrophobia, stinging insects, and the threat of a lethal explosion. Each is about a writer faced with the dominating monster of his unpredictable muse. Paul Sheldon, the hero of Misery, sees himself as a caged parrot who must return to Africa in order to be free. Thus, in the novel within a novel, the romance novel that his mad captor-nurse, Annie Wilkes, forces him to write, he goes to Africa--a mysterious continent that evokes for him the frightening, implacable solidity of a woman&#39;s (Annie&#39;s) body. The manuscript fragments he produces tell of a great Bee Goddess, an African queen reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard&#39;s She. He hates her, he fears her, he wants to kill her; but all the same he needs her power. Annie Wilkes literally breathes life into him. Misery touches on several large themes: the state of possession by an evil being, the idea that art is an act in which the artist willingly becomes captive, the tortured condition of being a writer, and the fears attendant to becoming a &quot;brand-name&quot; bestselling author with legions of zealous fans. And yet it&#39;s a tight, highly resonant echo chamber of a book--one of King&#39;s shortest, and best novels ever. Extracted from Amazon.com - Thank U </p> <a href="http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005.html?_c=feed-rss"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005-120pi" alt="Misery" /></a> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9620005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Jools) http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005.html?_c=feed-rss http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:18:18 +0800 <p>Synopsis: Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. Extracted from Amazon.com - Thank U </p> <a href="http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005.html?_c=feed-rss"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005-120pi" alt="The Bluest Eye (Vintage International)" /></a> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://twomoosonefoo.vox.com/library/book/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00e398d79476000300e398d8b9480005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>