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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling! Read March 2012: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K....

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Tag Archives: Adaptations

Holmes qualms

by VÐGriesdoorn on July 11, 2009 - 0 comments

After seeing this trailer of the upcoming Sherlock Holmes film with Robert Downey Jr., I started to wonder how true to the original book film adaptations generally are. And where are common strong and weak points in adaptations ? These …

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Original mystery

by VÐGriesdoorn on June 7, 2009 - 0 comments

John Curran’s novel Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making, a look at how the authoress planned and developed her tales, will include two Poirot stories that were found by Curran in notebooks left in Christie’s …

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    Victoria is a full-time scientist by day and part-time writer by night. She writes Magical Realism, Dystopian Fiction and Horror, and sometimes a 'Novel In A Day'.

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    I have learnt a lot. One of those things is that I need to change my point of view and restruc- ture the plot.

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