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Behind The Bestsellers
By:Jenny Bond
Published on 2010-05-01 by Random House Australia

Behind the Bestsellers is a collection of fifty fascinating stories about the lives, loves and literature that inspired the world's greatest books. Full of literary history, dinner party trivia and lore of all kinds, this is a revealing journey through the minds of writers and the events that influenced the creation of our favourite works, from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood via Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. Behind these famous titles are compelling and often moving tales of the authors' powerful and rich life experiences, from love to loss, from adversity to opportunity and from failure to success.J. K. Rowling, for instance, had the character of Harry Potter in her mind's eye from a young age, but it was the tragic death of her mother that gave the character a spectacular will to live. And when Charlotte Bronte's passionate bond with a charismatic Belgian professor was broken by the professor's wife, she was spurred on to pour her unrequited emotions into the novel Jane Eyre. Celebrating the novels that have captured the imagination and respect of readers around the world, and bringing to life the brilliant and often flawed personalities responsible for their existence, Behind the Bestsellers is a must-have for every book lover.

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Do not you kind of hate how we have entered the decadent stage of Goodreads when possibly fifty percent (or more) of the reviews published by non-teenagers and non-romancers are actually bare and unabashed within their variously powerful efforts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Don't you kind of wood (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's happy druthers) for the great ol'days of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were consistently plainspoke Do not you sort of loathe how we have entered the decadent stage of Goodreads wherein possibly fifty % (or more) of the evaluations written by non-teenagers and non-romancers are now bare and unabashed inside their variously successful attempts at being arch, wry, meta, parodic, confessional, and/or snarky? Do not you kind of wood (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the great ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all opinions were consistently plainspoken, just effective, unpretentious, and -- above all otherwise -- boring, dull, boring? Do not you sort of loathe when persons claim'do not you think in this manner or feel that way'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically in to accepting with them? In what of ABBA: I do, I actually do, I do(, I do, I do). Well, since the interwebs is just a earth in which yesteryear stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we could revisit days gone by in its inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at the least till this amazing site finally tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in its entirety. I have bound it with huge rope and drawn it here for your perusal. (Please recognize that many a sic are recommended in these reviews.) their really complicated and ridiculous! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the least that book is great! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a review prepared in one of the witch's comments or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation by having an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on exactly the same play. You could'know'MICHAEL; he's the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for many I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it had been designed to be read, then it would be a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students see the play aloud (on person for every single character for a few pages). None people had read the play before. None folks wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And it also can definitely fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between the writer and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to see plays is wrong, and if you require anyone, under duress, to see a play then you have sinned and are going to hell, in the event that you rely on hell. Or even, you're going to the DMV. I am also fed up with whatever you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists along with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a note overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, it seems offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow to the petty linguistic rules. Creative manifestation will free itself however you attempt in order to shackle it. That is a person's stick, Aubrey. With my very own opinion, the actual have fun with Macbeth seemed to be a worste peice ever before provided by Shakespeare, this is saying a great deal contemplating i additionally examine his Romeo along with Juliet. Ontop involving it is really already astounding plot of land, unrealistic figures along with absolutly discusting list of morals, Shakespeare openly molds Lovely lady Macbeth as being the accurate vilian inside play. Taking into consideration she's mearly the tone of voice throughout the trunk round and Macbeth him or her self will be truely spending the actual horrible criminal activity, such as killing and also scams, I wouldn't realise why it's so quick to assume of which Macbeth would probably be inclined to accomplish excellent as opposed to malignant only if his or her wife ended up being more possitive. I really believe this enjoy will be uterally unrealistic. Yet these is definitely the ne and also ultra connected with basic book reviewing. Although succinct and without having annoying trend so that you can coyness as well as cuteness, Jo's evaluation alludes with a animosity so unique it's inexpressible. 1 imagines a handful of Signet Vintage Updates broken into to be able to portions with pruning shears within Jo's vicinity. I don't really like this play. So much in fact of which Could not sometimes ensure that you get just about any analogies or maybe similes about what amount I hate it. A good incrementally snarkier variety probably have explained one thing like...'I personally don't like that play such as a simile I can't arise with.' Definitely not Jo. Your woman speaks the live, undecorated truth unsuitable with regard to figurative language. Plus there is nothing wrong by using that. As soon as throughout a fantastic while, when you're getting neck-deep within dandified pomo hijinks, it truly is a great wallow inside pig coop you happen to be itchin'for. Appreciate it, Jo. I adore you and your useless holding at similes that will are not able to solution the particular bilious hatred within your heart. That you are my verizon prepaid phone, and also I'm yours. Figuratively talking, with course. Now here i will discuss this assessment: Macbeth simply by Bill Shakespeare is best fictional perform within the Uk language, and also anyone who disagrees can be an asshole including a dumbhead.