Friday, April 14, 2017

Da-na Da-na - The book or the movie


One of my fave movies of all time, from the first time I saw it, is Jaws. I loved the fact that while it was about a shark it was more about people and how it affected them and how they reacted. 

We didn't even get to see the shark at first, just the girl being shaken back and forth. The image of feet kicking at the end of a rubber raft, a flash of fin, the blood, the boy. And some more attacks, the head of Ben Gardner on the hole in the hull of his boat. The big mother effen tooth. 

Then came the hunt. The second part of the movie.Three men - very different men - on the cruise to kill the big mother effen monster shark. 

The movie was so much everything...



... Then there's the book ....


I remember reading it when I was 13 or 14. I was in love with and wanted to study sharks. Sharks and crocodiles.

So i have the audio book and i am giving it a listen. To my surprise I find I am loving the movie so much more than the book. It's a rare occurrence. But true.


One of the my favourite characters in the movie is Ellen Brody. She's a level headed supportive loving wife and mother. She and Brody make a great pair.

In the book she is a vapid, vane, self-centred and superficial woman who regrets leaving her life of privilege to marry a man who is so punching above his socioeconomic weight class. She also seems rather unintelligent and uninteresting in every way. I remember book Ellen did something i thought was stupid and i haven't reached that part yet. 

So here is my question. My rhetorical question. Is book Ellen like Jessica Rabbit in that she couldn't help it, she was just drawn that way?

Give me movie Ellen Brody anytime.

Thursday, December 01, 2016

New Release - Once Upon a Moonlit Night


Once…in a Whitechapel Alley

Andrew and Isabelle, a genteel and privileged couple, are searching for someone to share in their carnal desires. And the lovely Lizzie fits the bill precisely. However, coxing the young prostitute into their bed isn’t so easy with Jack the Ripper stalking the Whitechapel streets.

Lizzie has been on the streets for some weeks and a night with in a warm house with a full belly is something she can’t pass up. What she doesn’t expect is the height of sexual ecstasy the couple will take her to, or the secret they hide from rest of Victorian London.


Once…in a Midnight Forest 

After catching her fiancé with another woman, Jaz runs blindly into the woods that surround her isolated cabin. But she is not alone. For in the midnight forest stalks a beast with a hunger to devour her. Can Jaz run from the big bad wolf or if he catches her, will she even want to?

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Dante Rising - The Birth of a Venator

A Dark Brethren short Story.


Every wondered what made Antoinette Petrescu from Night's Cold Kiss the way she is. Here is the short story of a six year old witnessing something no child should ever see. The murder of her mother. This is a short prequel the the first Dark Brethren novel and the making of the most skilled venator the guild has ever seen.

Get it here:





https://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/dante-rising-the-birth-of-a-venator

http://www.inktera.com/store/title/c12737c9-8723-47fd-a72e-36712c829add

https://www.scribd.com/book/255863762/Dante-Rising-The-Birth-of-a-Venator-A-Dark-Brethren-short-story



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