Do you have any sci-fi novel suggestions?
Anne McCaffrey’s The Dragonriders of Pern series comes to mind. Also, her Crystal Singer and Brainship series. McCaffrey was the first woman to win the major awards in science fiction, the Hugo and Nebula awards.Something more hardcore would be Fred Saberhagen’s Berserker series.Walter H. Hunt, The Dark Wing. While it is touted as a military space opera, Hunt really gets into the minds and the cultures of the antagonists in this story. Once you start reading it, you will not be able to put it down!James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres. The first space opera.Robert Heinlein… Heinlein is complex. His earlier books were adventure stories about living, working, and fighting in space. In the 1960s, he switched over to a social science fiction concept in his writing—the kind of stories his publisher would not allow him to write until he finally broke out of the contract with them.Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series is considered a Science Fiction classic, and the threads of that series pervade into many of his other stories. You ought to read I, Robot before Foundation, as Asimov makes some references to it in Foundation.Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the finest writers in science fiction. The Lathe of Heaven and The Left Hand of Darkness will seriously make you think. While it is fantasy, I would also recommend the Earthsea trilogy.Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang was the basis for the movie, Arrival.Wool by Hugh Howey will grab you by the throat and not let go. A short story and part of the Silo series. I generally don’t like dystopian science fiction, but Howey’s writing is just too good to miss.Spider Robinson has a fun, tongue-in-cheek style and a propensity for puns that you might enjoy. His most popular series is Callahan’s Café. Robinson’s style of storytelling has been compared favorably to Heinlein.There are many others. I would strongly recommend you look at the titles listed as winners for the Hugo and Nebula awards. You are likely to find something you like there.
In The Devil Wears Prada, what made the Miranda Priestly character so compelling?
"Truth is no one can do what I can do!"Miranda Priestly is the boss everyone dreads and probably hopes never to have - she is cold, calculating, unpredictable, impossible to please and has expectations that fly out of the ceiling and then some more, yet in a strange way a person whose success they wish to emulate.Her most famous quite done the movie...."Is there some reason my coffee isn't here?"Has she died?"Even as I type this sentence, Meryl Streep's voice rings clear and loud in my head dripping with sarcasm... Such has been the impact! The film is loosely based on a book written by a former employee about Vogue editor Anna Wintour (un)popularly nicknamed "Nuclear Wintour". Some of the recall value of the character in the film happens to be because it is based on a person who exists and hence makes that degree of success achievable.Hathaway recalled recently on The Graham Norton Show. “[A]nd I’m like, ‘Oh my god, we are going to have the best time on this movie.’ And then she’s like, ‘Ah sweetie, that's the last time I'm nice to you.’”“She then went into her trailer and came out the ice queen and that was really the last I saw of ‘Meryl’ for months, until we promoted the film,” Hathaway said.The Oscar-nominated actress made it very clear that Streep was merely staying in character between the scenes of the movie, which was based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel.http://www.vanityfair.com/hollyw...When an actor lives her part even the times when she is not acting, there is bound to be an impact in the minds of the audience. When Meryl Streep became Margaret Thatcher, forndays I couldn't get her bossy voice out of my head. She has the power to be the role instead if simply playing the role.Miranda Priestly is the Devil woman in that expensive suit, knocking off people left, right and centre and not giving a damn, but the reason she stuck in everybody's minds is because she got where she got because she was good... Not just good, she was brilliant. And every single person wanted to be a boss like her and have an assistant with whom they could say..." Everybody wants to be us!"
Among movies that you already loved, what remake did you love even more? The original movie has to be a movie that you already deeply loved.
Among movies that you already loved, what remake did you love even more? The original movie has to be a movie that you already deeply loved.Little Women (1933)Starring the wonderful Katherine Hepburn as Jo March.Little Women (1949)Starring June Allyson as Jo March.While I love both of the above versions, it is completely outclassed by Little Women (1994) with Wynona Ryder, Christian Bale, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrnes, Claire Danes, and company. They all melted into their roles and became their characters. You believed them, you wanted to know them.Here is the trailer
Why isn't Sherlock Holmes married?
I'm afraid that the questioner’s cultural bias is showing here. There is no reason that someone should be married if he or she doesn't want to be married.The fictional character of Sherlock Holmes, in all of his extended incarnations, has been shown to be quite attractive to women. It is he that chooses not to marry.In the canon (the original 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) the significant female interest is Irene Adler, the antagonist in the story A Scandal In Bohemia. After she outsmarts Holmes, she intentionally disappears, but it is clear from the story that under different circumstances the two characters would likely have had a relationship.This is made explicit in both of the current television series featuring the Holmes character.In the BBC series Sherlock, Holmes and Adler are shown to have reunited (I won't spoil the context for those who haven't seen it yet)…while throughout the series it is shown that the character of Molly Hooper is hopelessly in love with Holmes, even if the feelings are only partially requited.The American series Elementary on CBS is even more explicit. In this show, Holmes is portrayed as a man with extremely strong (and non-mainstream, although very much heterosexual) sexual appetites, his intense relationship with “Irene Adler” has repercussions throughout the entire series…he has a multi-episode romance with a character named Fiona Helbron…and the heart of the series is the complex relationship between between Holmes and [a female] Dr. Watson.The bottom line is that Sherlock Holmes isn't married because he doesn't want to be married.