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by | 20.1.2014 · 21:41

The last spin

Evan Hunter is the author of The Last Spin. His the most famous achievement is The Birds movie script. Protagonists in this dramatic short story are two men, Danny and Tigo. The story is full of  deep breaths, sweat and excitement.

In the story Danny and Tigo belong to different clubs. Their clubs had had disagreements and the clubs had settled that they solve problems with one way or with Russian roulette. Neither of them would want to be in that situation. Venue of the story is the basement room, where Danny and Tigo squeeze the trigger by turns until one of them is dead. If story has this kind of plot, it has to be thrilling and that’s what it was. The plot keeps the reader all the time awake. The reader must guess at all the time what will happen next and never you really know what it is.

Even though the story is based on a talk beetween two people, it is still so interesting that it makes you to read it on and in my case only very few author has done it. In the story Tigo and Danny see each other so different kind of persons, but when the story progresses they realize how similar they really are. That is one of the most fascinating things in the plot.

The text of the story has written with so fabulous way that it was actually pleasure to read it. After all text was very difficult to read, because there was so much terminology and protagonists discussed with very powerfull slang. When I read text, I had to focus entirely to reading.

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by | · 19:15

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of a trilogy called The Lord of the Rings. It was written by J.R.R. Tolkien, who is very famous fantasy writer. For example he has also written The Silmarillion and The Hobbit. This firt part of the trilogy was published on the 29th of July in 1954. The whole trilogy (including The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King) was published between the years 1954 and 1955

The Fellowship of the Ring is a fantasy novel which is located in Middle-Earth. It’s full of action, battles and adventure. The Lord of the Rings – trilogy, which includes The Fellowship of the Ring, has very detailed backround stories and maps. Because of the details and colourful describing you can feel like you are a part of the adventure. The writing of the books is very old fashioned and makes you feel like you’re in a middle of something very old and beautiful. All the scenes are easy to imagine in your head.

The whole trilogy is all about this one Power Ring, that Frodo Baggings happens to have inherited from his uncle, and it must be destroyed. This book is about the beginning of the journey of these nine fellas who make the Fellowship of the Ring, like the title of the book says. The fellowship includes hobbits Frodo, Sam, Merri and Pippin, humans Aragorn and Boromir, an elf Legolas, a dwarf Gimli and a wizard Gandalf. In this first part of the trilogy we follow the starting steps of this long journey from the Shire of hobbits where all four hobbits, Frodo, Sam Merri and Pippin, live to the real beginning of the journey across the Middle-Earth. In the first part it’s very much just about Frodo and his hobbit friends trying to take the Power Ring to Rivendell, a place of elves where they shall agree on the Fellowship of the Ring. The Fellowship is an agreement about destroying the ring.

After the Fellowship has been agreed begins a journey towards the Rings destroying place, Mordor. It’s a real trial to everyone and their real natures start to reveal. But since the story has just began there will be many suprises along the way and no one can be judged yet.

For my point of view this is one of the best books in the world, especially in english. I think that this book deserves it’s popularity and it really is the best fantasy book ever written with the two other parts of the story. With a dictionary in other hand it was a pleasure to read this book. And even with all kind of names and invented words that cannot be found in dictionaries it wasn’t too difficult experience to read a book written in english. But to truly understand this specific books charm you have to read the other parts as well.

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by | 6.1.2014 · 22:17

Life as we know it

 Life as we know it is a hilarious movie with drama and romance added in it. The movie was released in 2010 and is directed by Greg Berlanti.

 Life as we know it is a story about two people who can’t stand eachother, Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Eric (Josh Duhamel), and who are forced to take a huge responsibility together. Holly is a control freak and hard working bakery owner and Eric is working as a televisions technical sports director and he’s a huge womanizer. These two are the exact opposites and the only thing they have in common is that they happen to be the godparents of the third main character of the story, a little babygirl Sophie.

The movie has a really sad beginning when Sophies parents pass away and the baby is left to Holly and Eric. They are both named as Sophies caretakers so they have to start living together and start looking after her. From that moment on there will be a lot of fun scenes when these two, Holly and Eric, try to be good parents. This movie reveals the horrors and wonders of parenthood in a humorous way. It’s interesting to watch how these two so very different people and little Sophie are starting to become a family.

 Life as we know it is suitable for those who want to watch something light and hilarious. I myself like these kind of movies the most and this one is definitely one of the best I’ve seen. The subject of the movie might not be very unique or fresh, but who doesn’t love a good romanctic comedy? All the little details of the story make it easy to empathise. The secret of this films excellence is that the main characters are played by Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel. These two work well together and make the movie worth watching.

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by | · 18:06

The lone ranger

The lone ranger is an American western movie which appeared in movie theaters in 2013. The movie is directed by Gore Verbinski who has already directed Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Leading actors of a film are Johnny Depp (Tonto), Armie Hammer (John Reid/Lone ranger) and William Fichtner (Butch Cavendish). I watched this Wild West movie only because Johnny Depp was one of the actors and just like I guessed Depp made a fantastic performance.

The movie tells about a weird and humorous indian called Tonto and ordinary townie John Reid. These two team up after Tonto realizes that John is the ”chosen one” or The lone ranger. These two begin the batlle against Butch Cavendish who tries to come rich with silver and he is ready to eliminate all barriers in front of him. The film has been done comically and thats why it’s a more entertaining. Anyway, the film is overshadowed by a clishe plot, but it does not bother me because all actors are so great.

Although actors were great, it does not change the fact that movie would have had a lot of room for improvement. The biggest problem was the length of film. Film was absolutely too long and that is one reason why it sometimes repeated itself. Personally I liked movie set desing and effects because they gave me a real feeling about Wild West. Second thing that I liked was the scene where Tonto and John fighted with Cavendish and his forces. In that scene, the viewer will certainly get in the movie. The language of film was fairly easy to follow, because actors spoke very good english. There was still many Wild West phrases which I had never heard before. On a scale of four to ten, I would give eight fot this movie.

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