Categoria: Books

Jaws 2: A Movie Where the Novelization Was Better

With the huge success of Jaws, it was inevitable that Universal Pictures would be interested in a sequel. But aside from the ludicrous premise of the same town getting terrorized by a shark again, Jaws 2 was saddled with two directors, massive reshoots, an unhappy star, and a script that never quite seemed finished. That […]

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The Forgotten James Bond Book That Influenced the Movies

Remember the James Bond movie in which 007 teams up with an enemy agent to defeat a megalomaniacal supervillain? Of course you do. How about the one in which M is kidnapped and Bond must save his boss’s life at all costs? Yeah, that sounds familiar too. And let’s not forget the rogue North Korean […]

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This Old Star Wars Quiz Book Shows Just How Much the Franchise Has Changed

It might be hard to imagine but there was a time before the internet, before the prequels, even before Revenge of the Jedi was renamed Return of the Jedi. It was a time when Star Wars was something of a new phenomenon. And back then, one of the franchise’s biggest fans was an 11-year-old boy […]

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Dune 3 Casting Raises Huge Questions for the Future of the Franchise

This article contains spoilers for the Dune franchise. By this point, even the average moviegoer knows that the Dune franchise is weird. But devotees of Frank Herbert‘s sci-fi novels have been warning civilians for years that things are going to get so much weirder, starting with director Denis Villeneuve‘s next movie, an adaptation of the […]

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Stephen King Novella Adaptations Ranked

The novella is a strange beast in writing and publishing. Not quite a novel but lengthier than a short story (and also longer than the craft’s red-headed stepchild, the novelette). It’s a form that allows fiction writers to explore a story and characters in greater depth than a short story but doesn’t require the structural […]

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The Newest BookTok Darling Silver Elite Proves Dire for Dystopian Literature

Nothing says romantic and steamy quite like an oppressive society run by a military dictatorship. Or rather, that’s what author Dani Francis’ debut novel, Silver Elite, posits. Released in May 2025, the book has been the most recent ammunition in the ongoing civil war raging within online literature communities.  Marketed as the first entry in […]

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Link Tank: King of Ashes Giveaway and Peacemaker Season 2 Details

King of Ashes Giveaway  Flatiron Books is giving away five copies of S.A. Cosby’s newest Godfather-inspired Southern crime saga, King of Ashes on Instagram.  Cosby, who is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, returns with a biting family drama that follows Roman Carruthers, who must return home after his father is involved in a […]

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