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71Review of Haroun and the Sea of Stories
The excesses of Rushdie’s imagination are both the strength and weakness of this novel.The Shah of BlahHaroun is more accessible than some of Rushdie’s other novels, which should make it a good starting...
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79What Is Magical Realism?
Magical Realism is a genre of fiction literature that invokes a wide array of opinions from different readers. These books evoke a wide array of responses. Some absolutely love magical realism books, but...
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76Michael Parkes - The World's Leading Magic Realist Painter
The Last LionMichael Parkes, born in 1944 as an only child is said to be the world's leading Magic Realist Painter. He studied graphic art and painting at the University of Kanas and planned to be a teacher,...
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56How to Create an Immersive Setting
There are as many ways to create an immersive setting for a novel as there are novelists who achieved it. They all manage to build up enough detail about the world of the book that the reader is swept away...
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61Where is David? Deepening awareness in Wyoming
Waking east of Hot Springs National Cemetery, resting place for soldiers like John Pattee who was "assigned the responsibility of securing the frontier from a perceived threat from the Plains Indians", David...
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78Responding to Isabel Allende's Of Love and Shadows
I was quite pleased with Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows because it reads well, has multiple interesting characters, and has a plot in which events of some consequence actually take place. One of the...
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55Work in progress
Chapter One Colonel Juan Pablo Calderon knew it was not the opportune time to disturb the General. The old man had long dreamed for Corazon and now that the woman had finally gone home with him, he would...
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65The Problem of Genre
I was not quite seventeen years old when I wrote the first chapter of The Few Who Count. I was twenty-three by the time it was finished. It was my first novel. I sent out a query letter to just about every...
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64Book Review: The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass.
Book: The Tin Drum/ Author: Gunter Grass (Nobel Laureate)/ Publisher:Vintage (May 5, 2005)/ Pages 576/ ISBN: 0099483505 I have just finished reading Gunter grass' The Tin Drum and I had to wait for it to...
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65Great Marquez - The Master of Magical Realism
Who is Marquez? Gabriel García Márquez is a great Columbian novelist who was awarded Nobel Prize in literature in 1982. He was born on 6th of March, 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena, Columbia. He was the...
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