The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction

The Rough Guide to Cult Fiction
Author: Paul Simpson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 9781843533870

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An overview of cult fiction that profiles key writers and their works and provides trivia related to cult fiction works.

The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

The Rough Guide to Cult Movies
Author: Paul Simpson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2010-08-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1405386169

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The Rough Guide to Cult Movies offers a blend of essential trivia and informed opinion as it takes you on a tour of the most compellingly weird - and weirdly compelling - films in the world. Whether you're a paid-up member of The Big Lebowski fan club or just looking for a night in with an interesting DVD, The Rough Guide to Cult Movies is the ultimate guide to the world's most memorable films. The Rough Guide to Cult Movies selects cinema's most compelling triumphs: films that are brilliant, intriguing or just plain bizarre; from action flicks to zombie films, by way of nuns, yakuza, musicals and mutations. You'll find expert, pithy reviews of over 1500 movies, with forgotten legends like Charlie Chan and the Opera or contemporary classics like There Will Be Blood, plus filmmakers' picks of their favorite cult movies, in their own words. There are good movies and there are bad movies and then there are cult movies.

The Rough Guide to Film

The Rough Guide to Film
Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides UK
Total Pages: 676
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1848361254

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Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world’s greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk’s Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors – and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction

The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction
Author: Rough Guides
Publisher: Rough Guides UK
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1848363079

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The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction takes the reader on a guided tour of the mean streets and blind corners that make up the world’s most popular literary genre. The insider’s book recommends over 200 classic crime novels from masterminds Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith to modern hotshots James Elroy and Patricia Cornwall. You’ll investigate gumshoes, spies, spooks, serial killers, forensic females, prying priests and patsies from the past, present, and future. Complete with extra information on what to read next, all movie adaptions, and illustrated throughout with photos and diagrams ...all the evidence that counts

500 Essential Cult Books

500 Essential Cult Books
Author: Gina McKinnon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Best books
ISBN: 9781402774850

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500 essential cult books brings together some of the best cult books ever written, assembling an incredible list comprising fiction, memoirs, thrillers, sci-fi and fantasy epics, self-help tomes, graphic novels and children's books from across the ages.

The Rough Guide to Classic Novels

The Rough Guide to Classic Novels
Author: Simon Mason
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2008-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1405383828

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Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world's greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk's Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors - and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you'll ever need.

Cult Fiction

Cult Fiction
Author: Andrew Calcutt
Publisher: Prion (GB)
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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What makes a novel cult?: drink and drugs; sex and rock 'n' roll?; a window on subcultures?; the ability to tap into the zeitgeist? This book provides an insight into the cult canon assessing 250 authors who have pioneered experiments in style and content, from Kathy Acker and Nelson Algren via Burroughs and Bukowski to Tom Wolfe and Irvine Welsh.

Pinball

Pinball
Author: Jerzy Kosinski
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2007-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802195768

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From the twisted mind of Jerzy Kosinski, a novel of kink and consequences set in the turbulent world of 1970s rock music excess. Jerzy Kosinski’s bestselling novel Pinball, which he wrote for George Harrison, is a rock ‘n’ roll mystery centered on a superstar named Goddard who has, despite his success, managed to keep his identity a secret, even from his closest friends. But a beautiful young woman, obsessed with finding Goddard, stalks him relentlessly, driven by a secret goal that justifies all means. Ricocheting with humor and bursting with erotic intensity, Pinball is a game as intricate, unpredictable, suspenseful, and complex as life. “Pinball is classic Kosinski.” —Chicago Tribune “Kosinski has created a suspenseful, readable, and unsentimental tale that showcases his love for and knowledge of music and examines the nature of fame and success and the frightening alienation and violence it often spawns.” —Library Journal

The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

The Rough Guide to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials
Author: Paul Simpson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Fantasy fiction
ISBN: 9781843539209

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Exploring the origins of "His Dark Materials" back to the life of its creator, this resource also covers the creation of the trilogy, author Phillip Pullmans inspiration, response from reviewers, fans, and religious leaders, and a guide to the meaning of Pullmans alternate words.Rough Guide