Thursday, January 24, 2013

Revisit the Potter-Mania with books of JK Rowling

After the successful release of the second and final episode of Harry Potter, the worldwide phenomenon found its rule over ten years of the bestseller list and ticketing. As the Potter-mania reached its natural end, readers can engage in some restart sentimental reading or the character of more fantastic fiction of the Decade. For certified fanatics and first time HP-readers, this is the chance to meet and relive the adventures of "the boy who lived"!

New approach to Hogwarts

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books that accompanies it, first designed the story of a magical world located in the modern interior United Kingdom 1997 rear path. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, the first in a long series of books of Hogwarts-centered on a young Wizard named Harry Potter, saw his first publication in 1997. As successive series books, the philosopher's stone to critical and commercial success which opened finally led to his 2001 film adaptation. The same actors who played the characters highly appreciated in the first book-Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Alan Rickman, Ralph Fiennes has resumed their roles and all throughout the next films seven-Harry Potter (except Richard Harris, who was replaced by actor Michael Gambon after the latter's untimely demise) in the ten years after the first film.

Books by J.K. Rowling

Here is a list of the books of J.K. Rowling in the year of its publication. The other identified year is the year of the world output or adaptation of film of this particular book.
1. the sorcerers (1997; 2001)

2. the Chamber of Secrets (1998; 2002)

3. the prisoner of Azkaban (1999, 2004)

4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire (2000; 2005)

5 Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix (2003, 2007)

6 Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince (2005, 2009)

7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007;) (Part 1: 2010, part 2: 2011)

8 Fantastic Beasts and where to find the (2011)

9. The Quidditch through the ages (2001)

10. The tales of Beedle the Bard (2008)

11 Harry Potter Prequel (short story written for charity, 2008)

Copies of the first edition, published by Bloomsbury, those which are considered collectors items. The first edition release other books are expensive, even if you can find copies of opportunity sold online today.

The appeal or the Potter-mania

If you like reading on the fantastic worlds of magic and adventure as the thrill and enjoy, you will find that the books of J.K. Rowling are undoubtedly well written, mix fantasy with the ordinary all shares to its readers the common themes of friendship and the power of the will in the battle against good and evil.

J.K. Rowling books have been classified in the fantasy genre, with elements of adventure, mystery, thriller and romance. Other classifications include Fantasy and history from the age of the children. His stories are loved by children and adults that it resonates with the realities which may be relevant to readers (this, despite the magic trope in the novels).

At the present time, the author J.K. Rowling is occupied with his works of charity. In June 2011, it announces the launch of a Web site where she continued to extend to the world, that it has created a website called "Potter more." Pottermore.com is still in its Beta Version, but will be available for everyone in October 2011.

Today, his series remains a major influence on film and literature. With the success of the books of J.K. Rowling, fantasy has seen a resurgence of popularity and the following, as evidenced by the number of volumes published and the rise of the first time authors writing fantastic stories with as brave and charming characters such as Harry Potter.

You can find a list of authors such as books of j. K. Rowling and other j K Rowling on my Web site.



Sunday, January 20, 2013

The Technologists by Matthew Pearl

The Tech?nol?o?gists by Matthew Pearl is a novel which takes place at post Civil War, Boston. The story takes place in the years dur?ing a very frag?ile time in our history.


Mar?cus Mans?field was a POW & is American Civil War vet?eran attends the first class of the Mass?a?chu?setts Insti?tute of Tech?nol?ogy as a char?ity stu?dent. Even though he is not as affluent as his friends, Mar?cus is brilliant and a sci?en?tist n heart and mind.


Mans?field and his col?leagues decide to inves?ti?gate recent strange occur?rences which hap?pened in the Boston Har?bor and the city itself. What's at stake is the future of MIT as well as mod?ern sci?ence itself.


The Tech?nol?o?gists by Matthew Pearl is an enter?tain?ing read with peculiar his?tor?i?cal detail and a nerdi?ness thrown in just for kicks. I found the char?ac?ters cap?ti?vat?ing and the plot line interesting.


The author does a great job interlacing fiction and non-fiction as well as the dia?log which was spo?ken in that time period. The difficult social norms of the time are pre?sented in the form of a lone MIT female stu?dent who is forced to study by herself.


There were sev?eral interesting views in The Technologists, it is writ?ten almost as a futur?is?tic novel, but of course with tech?nol?ogy most of us con?sider anti?quated. The ones I thought were the most inter?est?ing where the tech?no?log?i?cal aspect, Har?vard's reli?gious aspects, and flash?backs of the pro?tag?o?nist to the Civil War.


The over?reach?ing tech?nol?ogy which the MIT stu?dents dealt with, old in today's stan?dards but pre?sented in the book as the lat?est inno?va?tions are explained in an inter?est?ing way. Tech?nol?ogy, then as is now, is some?times seen as an evil, espe?cially when it looks as if it might cost a whole class their liv?ing wage.


I have always thought of the University of Harvard as a for?ward think?ing uni?ver?sity. This novel, and a quick con?fir?ma?tion on Google, taught me that it wasn't always so. From my pre?vi?ous read?ing on Amer?i?can his?tory it seemed to me that Har?vard has always strove to inno?vate, but it seems that around that time Har?vard upheld its reli?gious stan?dards higher than its sci?en?tific ones. The uni?ver?sity wouldn't admit stu?dents who aren't Chris?tians as well as oppose ideas which do not agree with the Chris?t?ian dogma based on noth?ing but the ridicu?lous idea that reli?gion shouldn't be questioned.


A few of the chap?ters are told in flash?backs to the char?ac?ters' Civil War expe?ri?ence and how that expe?ri?ence came to influ?ence them at the cur?rent time?line. Per?son?ally, I would have loved to read more about that era, chap?ters switch?ing between war expe?ri?ence and how they affect peace time expe?ri?ences. How the war tech?nol?ogy which was meant to destroy can also be used to rebuild.


Over?all, while not a page turner, I found The Tech?nol?o?gists to be a solid, above aver?age mys?tery, which holds itself together well, writ?ten by a gifted author.


Known by the Quixotic pun of "Man of la Book" he is a father, husband, book blogger, software engineer & wood worker who is known the world over as a man of many interests and to his lovely wife as "an idiot".


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