In Magic we see a young, invincible star struggle with the sting of defeat, not just as a player but as a team leader. We hear him talk with candor about playing through chronic pain and its truly exacting toll. From the heady days of trading championships to the darker days of injury and illness, we come to understand Larry's obsessive devotion to winning and how his demons drove him on the court. With intimate, fly-on-the-wall detail, When the Game Was Ours transports readers to this electric era of basketball and reveals for the first time the inner workings of two players dead set on besting one another. When it started they were bitter rivals, but along the way they became lifelong friends. Each pushed the other to greatness-together Bird and Johnson collected 8 NBA Championships, and 6 MVP awards and helped save the floundering NBA at its most critical time. These were the basketball epics of the 1980s-Celtics vs Lakers, East vs West, physical vs finesse, Old School vs Showtime, even white vs black. Their uncommonly competitive relationship came to symbolize the most compelling rivalry in the NBA. From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physical and psychological battle.
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With each successful pitch from the young phenom, the tension and excitement builds. The contest is arrange and a large crowd gathers around. The Whammer is eventually informed of the existence of Roy Hobbes and makes some less than kind remarks, which stimulates Sam to bet Whambold that Roy can strike him out. When the locomotive is forced to make an unscheduled stop, the passengers take the opportunity to stretch their legs and hit a nearby carnival to pass the time. Notable passengers who happen to be on the train include a mysterious and alluring woman named Harriet Bird, Max Mercy who is one of the country’s leading sportswriters and, most notably, the most feared hitter in the American League: Walt “The Whammer” Whambold. Along for the ride is Sam, his manager, who has wrangled a tryout for his scouting jackpot with the Chicago Cubs. Roy Hobbes is traveling by train to Chicago as his story commences. On the other hand, those looking for the happy ending which meets Roy Hobbes as the closing credits begin to crawl should probably prepare themselves for bitter disappointment ahead. Those only familiar with this book from the Robert Redford film upon which it is based will find a great deal of faithfulness to the basic structure of the narrative. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. What political and ideological tools can the liberal democratic world use to resist the politics of eternity? What is missing is a sense of what stands in oppo-sition to this illiberal onslaught. Snyder’s lyrical prose gives the book its emotional power. Snyder argues that this “politics of inevitability” has collapsed, opening the door to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “politics of eternity,” a project in which illiberal states perpetuate themselves by manufacturing enemies, stoking grievances, manipulating the truth, and undermining foreign countries that offer alternative ideals to their citizens. The West’s grand vision is built on Enlightenment ideas and a belief in the inevitable spread of liberal democracy. For Snyder, the primary threat comes from Russia’s ideological challenge to the West. In his new work, Snyder argues that fascism and authoritarianism have returned in new and subtler guises. In an earlier book, Bloodlands, Snyder told the story of Nazi and Soviet genocidal violence in eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Of all the books that seek to explain the current crisis of Western liberal democracy, none is more eloquent or more frightening than Snyder’s The Road to Unfreedom. “Patty Dann gives us a magnificent voice in the young Charlotte . . . At the same time, the young caretaker at the convent is inspiring some unsaintly thoughts . . . With a convent just steps away from their home, this could be Charlotte’s chance to fulfill her dream of becoming a martyred Catholic saint-despite the fact that she’s Jewish. When they settle into a quiet New England town in 1963, the teenager yearns to stay put for once. a radiant debut.” -The New York Times Book Review The inspiration for the cult-classic film starring Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci, and Cher, this novel is narrated by Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old helplessly dragged by her mother from place to place, brief affair to brief affair. Summary A teenager follows along as her mother moves from town to town-and man to man-in this coming-of-age novel: “Both hilarious and tragic . . . When the stage doesn't start forward, Marshall glances at him-a fleeting look first, but a longer one when their eyes lock. Somehow, Marshall's proximity isn't helping. He should put his eyes on the road ahead and get the horses moving, but his hands are still shaking. Bram finds himself staring again, and this time he can't bring himself to look away. When he climbs onto the bench beside Bram, it's with a freshly loaded shotgun in hand he looks like a man ready for anything. Instead of mounting, he simply hitches his horse to the back of the coach. Marshall returns quickly, on foot, kicking up dust as he leads his horse into the road. He wishes it were enough to settle his anxious nerves as he climbs back into his seat, reins in hand. Well, that and the rescue for which Bram is plenty grateful. He's got no reason to trust him beyond the fact that so far the man hasn't tried to shoot him. But if Marshall wants to stick around after the gunfire fades, Bram's not going to complain.īram doesn't really consider leaving when Marshall disappears to retrieve his own horse but his heartbeat is a confused racket in his chest, and he's none too sure why he stays. Right place, right time, that's all this is.īram Caldwell sure as hell didn't expect to need rescuing. Speaking of computer games, have you checked out my Kindle Vella offering yet? I teamed up with Red Tash and Kat Bradbury to create a science fiction adventure serial, under the collective pen name of Kaye Elsie. Thanks for hanging in there with me on this experimental story, told in an experimental way. I rather liked the effect, and I hope you did, too. So, as you can tell, I employed a text-to-speech converter on the website, "" using the "Alice" personality. When I thought about reading the story to you, I thought it might be difficult to convey the feel of a computer game in my reading. Of course, it's not an interactive story, it's only written in that style. If you haven't experienced this form of interactive fiction before, I hope you still enjoyed this presentation of the medium. When I wrote this story, I had the idea of telling it in the form of an old text-based interactive fiction computer game like, Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, or Infocom's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I'll also add a content warning: this story contains a loss of agency. Rather than spoil it here in the introduction, I'll save my explanation for after the story is done being told. Perhaps some of you will recognize the format. I was in a rather experimental mood when I wrote it. The story I have for you is another one of my Bradbury Challenge stories. For this episode of the Alien Beer Podcast, I thought I'd do something a bit different. Frank Baum's Oz books begin with the beloved tale of Kansas farm girl Dorothy, blown by a tornado to the magical Land of Oz. The premier American fantasy adventure gets the Merry Marvel treatment! Eric Shanower and Skottie Young's Eisner Award-winning adaptations of L. Along the way, they meet Sawhorse - and follow the legendary Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City!Ĭollects The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2008) #1-8, The Marvelous Land of Oz (2009) #1-8. Dorothy fatally flattens a wicked witch, liberates a living scarecrow and is hailed by the munchkins as a great sorceress - but all she really wants is to get home! Then join the young boy named Tip as he escapes the servitude of mean old witch Mombi and runs away with his newly created magical companion, Jack Pumpkinhead. Collects The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2008) #1-8, The Marvelous Land of Oz (2009) #1-8. An agent might be in a situation where he just does not have access to a computer, or may be prosecuted if he has tools for secret communication. The system is called “Solitaire” (in the novel, “Pontifex” is a code name intended to temporarily conceal the fact that it employs a deck of cards) and I designed it to allow field agents to communicate securely without having to rely on electronics or having to carry incriminating tools. These two characters go on to exchange several encrypted messages using this system. In Neal Stephenson’s novel Cryptonomicon, the character Enoch Root describes a cryptosystem code-named “Pontifex” to another character named Randy Waterhouse, and later reveals that the steps of the algorithm are intended to be carried out using a deck of playing cards. This page has been translated into German by Nils Plaumann, into French by Fernandes Gilbert, into Spanish by Jesús Cea Avión, into Italian by Silvio Coccaro, and into Czech by Michal Altair Valášek. Version 1.2, 5/26/99 Designed by Bruce Schneierįeatured in Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon Home Academic The Solitaire Encryption Algorithm They were shouting `you murdering b******s' and they spat at us,'' said Mrs Hickson. Then they they found out I was Irish and they put Red Hand of Ulster flags out their window. ``They were shouting and banging on doors and giving us grief. The court heard the couple, from Coultry Road, Santry in Dublin had paid £570 each for the two-week break in Palma, Majorca last April but on their second night at the resort in Tillaria a group of around 40 Chelsea fans arrived for a match between their club and Real Majorca. A TWO-week break in the sun for a couple in their fifties became a holiday from hell when they found themselves facing a daily diet of harassment and threats from skinhead soccer fans.īut when they pleaded to be moved they found themselves transferred to the young person's resort of Santa Ponsa and a cockroach-infested apartment with rooms next to a sewage pipe.Įlizabeth Hickson (52) and her husband John (50), both grandparents, were yesterday awarded £300 against Budget Travel after the Small Claims court heard how what had been planned as a birthday celebration for Mr Hickson had ended up a nightmare. The worst of human nature soon comes out in every citizen who find that they're in competition with everyone in the town for survival.Īttempts are made to identify the problem and how to deal with it, but honestly, the action is few and far between in this novel. The book becomes a story about coping with the problem and trying to find a way to survive the anarchy once everyone realizes that food, water, and other essentials are priceless commodities. No one can put a finger on the problem, but they all soon find out that if anyone tries to leave town, there lives are quickly snuffed out by the darkness. The sun just doesn't come up one day and the town and it's surroundings are in complete darkness. In this story, Robbie Higgins, his girlfriend Christy, best buddy Russ, and the good folks of Walden, VA find themselves completely devoid of light one day. The book follows a plot line similar to Stephen King's "Under the Dome" and "The Mist". The plot is thin, the characters underdeveloped, and the action is sparse. Of the 5 books that I've just mentioned, "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is the weakest. I've read a few of Brian Keene's books (The Rising, City of the Dead, Ghoul, & Castaways) so I knew what to expect from the author and had enjoyed what I'd already read from him. |