GRAPHIC NOVELS - TWO WONDERS - LOOSE SEX
"The Art and Style of Graphic Novels" (49:31) / Politics and Prose (YouTube)
despair so palpable, so tangible (what on earth do these words mean?), heart-rending (better), heart-wrenching (wow!) - what next? ... Crocodile tears for pandemic (or is it epidemic?) universal despair ? ... - G
I enjoy TINTIN comics VERY MUCH! - G
Phantom comics by Lee Falk & Sy Barry - truly so delightful ... (I consider Myself Phantom/G) - G
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"Why COMICS [= GRAPHIC NOVELS] BELONG IN THE CLASSROOM" / Gene Yang (10:44) TEDx Talk (YouTube)
VERY INTERESTING BOOK REVIEW ON YOU TUBE **
"The War of the Worlds - Book Discussion" - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 / Minute... [!!] (YouTube)
Interesting. - G
Correction: I was wrong. I looked up Google/Wikipedia: it is a town in Surrey - it is on the bank of river Mole - it is near London? - it is mentioned in the book Domesday (?!!). Thank you for your interesting and fresh book review. - G
Kishalay Sinha [G]
** I have just finished watching all 4 parts of his discussion, one after another, without a break - he is so interesting - it seems to Me that the guy enjoyed the sci fi book and he wanted to SHARE his excitement with others and so after reading a few chapters he posted part 1, similarly part 2, part 3, part 4 of his interesting 4-part video. What I like about this guy is that - unlike most female book reviewers on YouTube who probably do not read at all thoroughly the books they review but only want to impress and attract God with their s. appeal - this guy reads thoroughly and thinks seriously about what he has read and makes interesting ORIGINAL observations on his reading. I do not know the name of this very thoughtful young guy, so I keep referring to him as this guy, the guy. I have heard him regretting several times in his videos that the first person narrator in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS does not have a name - the book reviewer guy follows the example of the first person narrator in THE WAR OF THE WORLDS!
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I enjoyed reading THE WAR OF THE WORLDS as an illustrated graphic novel which I cannot now find in My personal library - I may have lent it to a boy to read. (Normally I don't lend books from My personal library - a few years ago an alcoholic brother-in-law borrowed some rare books and never returned them - probably sold them to buy cheap alcohol.)
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I suspect that in this science fiction novel, the author H. G. Wells probably regards God as an awesome super intelligent alien Martian!
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Enjoy the funny play THE BOOK THAT SAVED THE EARTH by Claire Boiko (SEBA / CBSE) (YouTube)
Kishalay Sinha [G]
I have bought the following graphic novels (when we were young schoolboys, we used to call them "comics"):
H. G. Wells: THE TIME MACHINE
H. G. Wells: THE INVISIBLE MAN
Robert Louis Stevenson: THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
Robert Louis Stevenson: KIDNAPPED
Jules Verne: A JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH (adapted by Lewis Helfand)
GENESIS FROM CREATION TO THE FLOOD
Jane Austen: PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Daniel Defoe: ROBINSON CRUSOE (adapted by Dan Johnson)
Herman Melville: MOBY DICK
Robert Louis Stevenson: TREASURE ISLAND
Jerome K. Jerome: THREE MEN IN A BOAT
Lewis Helfand: 4000 BC THE STORY OF THE TEN THOUSAND
Johann David Wyss: THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
Miguel de Cervantes: DON QUIXOTE - Part I
Miguel de Cervantes: DON QUIXOTE - Part II
Chris Welsh: SPACE RACE
Lewis Helfand: THEY CHANGED THE WORLD (Edison - Tesla - Bell)
Jules Verne: THE MASTER OF THE WORLD (adapted by Dale Mettam)
The price of each of the above graphic novels when I bought them was about Rs. 200. All published by Campfire / Kalyani Navyug Media, New Delhi.
MISSION STATEMENT of Campfire: To entertain and educate young minds by creating unique illustrated books to recount stories of human values, to arouse curiosity in the world around us, and to inspire by tales of great deeds of unforgettable people.
Kishalay Sinha [G]
Heat-Ray
In the silence of the night, with that sense of the nearness of God that sometimes comes into the stillness and the darkness, I stood my trial, my only trial, for that moment of wrath and fear.
I faced the problem of the Martians and the fate of my wife. For the former I had no data; I could imagine a hundred things, and so, unhappily, I could for the latter. And suddenly that night became terrible. I found myself sitting up in bed, staring at the dark. I found myself praying that the Heat-Ray might have suddenly and painlessly struck her out of being. [!!] Since the night of my return from Leatherhead I had not prayed. I had uttered prayers, fetish prayers, had prayed as heathens mutter charms when I was in extremity; but now I prayed indeed, pleading steadfastly, face to face with the darkness of God. Strange night! strangest in this, that so soon as dawn had come, I, who had talked with God, crept out of the house like a rat leaving its hiding-place - a creature scarcely larger, an inferior animal, a thing that for any passing whim of our masters might be hunted and killed. Perhaps they [!!] also prayed confidently to God. Surely, if we have learned nothing else, this war has taught us pity - pity for those witless souls that suffer our dominion. (pp. 119-120)
I felt no fear, only a wild, trembling exultation, as I ran up the hill towards the motionless monster...
A mighty space it was, with gigantic machines here and there within it, huge mounds of material and strange shelter-places. And scattered about were the Martians - DEAD ! - slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared; slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his [His] wisdom, has put upon this earth. (p. 136)
- H. G. Wells: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, Dover Publications, New York; 145 pages; ISBN 0 - 486 - 29506 - 0 (Dover Thrift Edition) $ 2.00
Kishalay Sinha [G]
TWO WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Alibris and Better World Books - giant sellers of used books (which look like new) at very cheap prices - have millions of used books in stock which they can deliver in the USA and ship to many other countries of the world, including India. (I speak from first-hand experience. I got several fascinating books by Norman Lewis and Isaac Asimov which I ordered from India.) Alibris and Better World Books are amazing wonders of the world.
Kishalay Sinha [G]
LOOSE SEX
"The Idiot (Part 2) / Dostoevsky" (35:18) / Post U... (YouTube)
N - just a pr. - a very foolish conceited pr., who thought too highly of herself. Just one of millions of pr. like her. N in the novel represents Eve who is engaged in very tiresome loose sex. What's so great about her? Eve and Satan/Peter planned to "replace" God (how ridiculous!) and "rule" the universe. Mad, stupid Eve, now punctured by God. M is such a ridiculous caricature of God. Dostoevsky had no inkling of the infinite power of omniscient God when he created Prince Myshkin, the Hero of THE IDIOT Who is the most lovable of all characters created by the very fertile brain of Dostoevsky. - G
God gave "s." Eve complete freedom to exercise her FREE WILL for billions of years and God continues to offer s. Eve and millions like her complete freedom to exercise their FREE WILL for billions of years in the future as in the past billions of years. So please don't blame Him unfairly. - G
Pathetic self-designated "psychiatrists" can think of only two-pole "bipolar disorder" whereas God is infinite polar order! - G
AMPLIFICATION of the quote: From a drop of sem., billions of creatures can be created. - G
I suspect that the highly dramatic "firing squad" incident in Dostoevsky's life is pure fiction and is in fact a parody of the foolish threat by Nazis to "scare" Me by giving Me ineffectual "poison" in Bombay many years ago! Nazis were scared of Me because they did not know what secret conversation I may have had with patriotic Indian police personnel at the Matunga Police Station near Bombay! - G
Eve = Jezebel (John's Book of Revelation in the Bible)
"Fallen [Female] Angel [Naina] Talks of Hell's Torment" (18:20)(YouTube)
Kishalay Sinha [G]
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