![]() ![]() I'll share with you that Dick Giordano, many years after Dark Knight Returns, said to me he regretted that. According to Janson, " Dark Knight gets the credit and the blame. Then, I realized that inevitably, Bruce was heading towards a conflict with Superman."įor better or worse, The Dark Knight Returns changed the industry. "It was just Batman against criminals and cops. "When I first put together The Dark Knight Returns, my initial version of it didn't even have Superman," said Miller. ![]() But according to Miller, the Man of Steel wasn't in the original outline for the story! Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice also seized upon the confrontation between DC's top superheroes. It also inspired decades of comics that came after it, as well as an animated film adaptation. The Dark Knight Returns reinvigorated Batman as a much darker hero than before. Hailed as a comics masterpiece, The Dark Knight Returnsis Frank Millers (300 and Sin City) reinvention of Gothams legendary protector. ![]() Along the way, the series introduced Carrie Kelley as the first female Robin, gave viewers a horrific final showdown between Batman and the Joker, and featured a legendary battle with Superman. ![]() Along with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, Miller told the tale of a 55-year-old Bruce Wayne coming out of retirement to restore order in a Gotham City that had long ago moved past Batman. In 1986, writer and artist Frank Miller was only 29 years old when he tackled the comic that cemented his place among the icons: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. ![]()
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![]() The human subject, on the other hand, became empowered, liberated, and autonomous. Mankind began to see the world as an objective reality which can be studied by science and manipulated with technology. The cosmos became a de-sacralized object, which is no longer imbued with divinity and meaning. In monotheistic religion, God is transcendent. The rise of the great monotheistic religions began with the Axial age in the sixth century BCE. Tarnas first describes the ancient world view, in which the self is undifferentiated from the world-soul in a participation mystique. ![]() He proposes that a potential resolution, which he calls the participatory framework, has also been in development in the West for centuries. ![]() ![]() He then argues that with the advent of postmodernism, the modern world is in a serious spiritual crisis, which manifests as the global ecological crisis. Tarnas outlines the intellectual-cultural development of the modern world view from its origins in Greek and Judaeo-Christian mythologies. ![]() Tarnas argues that the movement from the Greek and Christian world views, through modernity and to postmodernism can be seen as a natural and dialectical unfolding of a collective mind or psyche. The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View is a 1991 book by the cultural historian Richard Tarnas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator fears that an insect could crush him if it landed on his head. They do not have the strength to lift an apple that has fallen to the ground. The grass doesn't bend beneath their feet, making walking very difficult and painful. The ghosts find this beautiful world very uncomfortable. The others huddle together for protection. Some of the ghosts are afraid and immediately return to the bus. The new arrivals are ghosts, whereas the people they see in this new land are bright, opaque, and beautiful. He looks down and is horrified to see that he can see through his own feet. The bus passengers disembark, and the narrator notices that in the bright sunshine, the passengers appear to be transparent. The scenery is more beautiful than the narrator has seen on earth. The bus flies up into the cloudy sky, above the gray wet rooftops.īefore long the bus arrives in a sunny, grassy country. The narrator barely makes it onto the bus and feels himself very fortunate to have gotten a seat. He listens to the conversations of others while he stands in line. For lack of anything better to do, he stands in line. ![]() He never encounters another person it looks like the entire town is empty, but then he finds a bus station where people are waiting in line. It's raining, and the narrator wanders around the dingy streets, looking for direction or at least a better part of town. The narrator suddenly finds himself in a dismal gray town just before nightfall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for.Inflammatory titles like Does Anyone Else, Unpopular Opinion, or similar are not allowed.Gush and critique posts should contain the book title/author if applicable. Reviews and screenshots of book excerpts must contain the book title/author in the post title.Book request titles must contain details about the kind of book you’re looking for and/or keywords that will inform future searches.Rules Post titles must be clear and informative For updated information regarding ongoing community features includings upcoming AMAs, please visit 'new' Reddit. Resource links will direct you to Wiki pages, which we are maintaining. Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with informative links about Book Clubs, AMAs, etc. Home of the magic search button and endless book recommendations as well as discussions about tropes and characters, Author AMAs, book clubs, and more. R/RomanceBooks is a discussion sub for readers of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Teenagers can tell the difference between an author who knows the teen voice and an author who typically writes for adults and is just trying to make his or her way into the YA genre. It’s the R-rated sexual thoughts and scenes that need to go, not intelligent character development. Z was scared to show her feelings” etc.Īs a staunch fan of Showalter’s adult Harlequin romances, I was disappointed that she seemed to feel the need to “dumb down” her writing for the young adult crowd. Any story that relies heavily on the main characters’ romantic appeal must work on showing us readers the attraction and potential, instead of telling us over and over again, “X couldn’t resist Y. Showalter has the unfortunate penchant of telling, not showing, and making her characters take agonizingly slow paragraphs to undergo a simple thinking process. Too much was implied and told directly to readers, the characters were unappealing, and the whole thing was just way too long to hold my attention. It’s unfortunate that the premise is so appealing, because, for me, INTERTWINED was an overwritten, confusing, and crowded paranormal mess. ![]() ![]() And I'm not talking about deep backstories mostly they are already included in the original books, just in less detail. Some parts are backstories-what happened with the characters and the places before the events in the first book. Unlike supplementary books in other series, The Magykal Papers does not really add any new story. But I found that I couldn't pore over it like I did with the other books mostly the pages are presented as information, not as stories, so it seemed tiring to read everything in one go. The Magykal Papers is a book containing news clippings, pamphlets, diary entries, letters, notices, and official receipts of the people and places in the Septimus Heap world.Īngie Sage does not forget to add the lovable wit found in her Septimus Heap books, so it was a very enjoyable read. Of course, this is a must for Septimus Heap fans. ![]() ![]() With enough women speaking, the noise was deafening.īetween Cosby and Weinstein, a man who claimed of women that he could “grab ‘em by the pussy” without consequences became the American president. There was power in numbers and women who had been powerless and vulnerable finally had the chance to speak out. Once his evisceration at the hands of keyboard warriors everywhere began, all women (and men too) saw that the landscape had changed. The women who stepped forward were no longer singled out as fame whores due to both their sheer numbers, and the fact that many didn’t need this kind of publicity. Anonymity bred contempt and the news went viral.Ĭosby’s crimes were reported and finally the world was watching. The Hollywood casting couch is a cliché that needs to be burned like manky furniture at a student flat party, and the irreverent denizens of Twitter are happy to set fire to whatever is handy. ![]() Social media was far less forgiving than the regular media which benefitted from the output of famous sexual predators. ![]() While Harvey Weinstein is now the poster violator for sexual assault, Bill Cosby’s accusers started the landslide in 2014, with over 50 women eventually coming forward to report his pattern of abuse that included drugging and rape. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was also the solo editor of several further anthologies published from 1971 to 1977, as detailed in the Checklist below. (1926-2013) US publicist for ABC TV who in his spare time co-edited eight genre Anthologies with Roger Elwood, from The Little Monsters (anth 1969) to Beware More Beasts (anth 1975). ![]() ![]() I always love a good risqué story and this is my first read by Penelope Douglas.Īlternating between Rika and Michael’s past and present in Thunder Bay, where she and the Crists grew up, both belonging to powerful families, Corrupt tells their story in the dual first-person perspective. ![]() Reviewįirst of all, a big thank you to Aakanksha for posting about this book. ![]() And when Michael is there, the other three of the four horsemen won’t be far. Away from Trevor Crist, her childhood friend and ex, away from everyone who doesn’t let her be…īut, there is Michael, a famous basketball player, and Trevor’s intimidating older brother, and Rika will be staying close to him again. Rika can’t wait to get out of her sheltered life and start a new one at Meridian City. Trigger Warning: Abuse, Road Rage, Murder Synopsis Genre: Romantic Suspense, Dark Romance, Erotica ![]() Corrupt is the demented and dangerous love story of Michael Crist and Erika Fane. ![]() ![]() ![]() but having also relevance to history and philosophy of science. The dissertation was entitled "Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist Worldview: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology." It is described as being essentially an evolutionary biology Ph.D. dissertation was officially a zoology Ph.D., supervised by William B. He went on to earn a master's degree in geology from UCLA and received his Ph.D. Graffin attended El Camino Real High School, then double-majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles. ![]() at Cornell University and has lectured courses in life sciences and paleontology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is most recognized as the lead vocalist and songwriter of the noted Los Angeles band Bad Religion, which he co-founded in 1980 and has been its only continual member. Gregory Walter Graffin is an American punk rock musician and college professor. ![]() |