Imagine what would happen if NASA found an astonishingly rare object, which proved the existence of extraterrestrial lifeforms in the universe. The world would fall into a state of complete awe, and science would reach a standstill, even if only for a second, as everyone watched news coverage of the event. It would go down as one of the greatest days in history for science. Dan Brown's novel, Deception Point, explores such a scenario. The story is an intense political thriller filled with espionage, action, and even romance. The author is well known for his fiction books based on prominent and...

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This is a book recommended for film and digital editors, whether they are wannabes, beginners, more advanced professionals or experts in their field. The Blink Of An Eye is written by Walter Murch, the editor behind Apocalypse Now and Cold Mountain. He talks about film editing and how it has evolved from the simple splice and dice of the early 1900s to the digital world of now. Walter Murch talks about how he edits his films and the techniques he has learned to develop over the years. He has his own way of editing, which he always does in a...

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As a high school student, there are a lot of books that I am "forced" to read. The announcement that my class is reading another book usually instigates several groans and sighs from my classmates. Much of the literature we read is boring, and often hard to comprehend. We have no way of relating to the authors, some of which seem ancient. We know that the books are all classics, but other than that, they tend to carry no other meaning to us. Finally, in class, I came across a book I enjoyed: The Great Gatsby. If you haven't read this book, I'd...

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Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is about a bullied high school kid who seeks revenge on his classmates who have bullied him all his life. Jodi Picoult attempts to get inside the head of the person who could commit such a crime and the people in the same town who are directly affected by this tragedy. Picoult writes vividly what could have happened at that time during the shooting and afterwards. She tries to make us, her readers, understand what Peter, the shooter, could have been thinking when he decided to shoot his classmates. Picoult also takes us back in time...

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Brisingr (try saying that three times fast), certainly does sound like some form of gibberish a two year old would mutter. The word, however, is the title of Christopher Paolini’s new masterpiece and third novel in the Inheritance cycle. The word Brisingr means “fire” in the ancient Elven language from the world of Alagaesia. Brisingr was first planned to be the final novel in a trilogy, but Paolini decided the book would end up much too large.

The series began with Eragon, and was followed by Eldest, no more than a year later.

The story follows a...

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