Posts Tagged ‘books’

The Man Who Wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo First Author To Sell a Million Kindle Books [Ebooks]

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

The Man Who Wrote The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo First Author To Sell a Million Kindle Books [Ebooks]

Stieg Larsson, the deceased Swedish author who wrote the all-of-a-sudden-very-popular books The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, has become the first author to sell a million Kindle books, granting him induction into Amazon’s “Kindle Million Club.” Any guesses who the next inductee might be? Faulkner? Proust? Nabokov? Probably …

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Daniel Craig Confirmed for The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

When Daniel Craig walked across the stage at this year’s Comic-Con, there was some extra pep in his step and this is why. Apparently, the British actor has been confirmed to star as the male lead in the highly anticipated American adaptation of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, which is being directed by David [...]

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Civic leader chairs Dragon Boat Festival

Questions about metro Denver’s growing Asian-American population? Ask Centennial resident Daniel Oh, who has been a community leader for more than three decades.

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Bond star in Dragon Tattoo

LOS ANGELES – DANIEL Craig has a new mission. The current star of the James Bond films has signed on for the English-language remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Distributor Sony Pictures confirmed that Craig is taking on the role of journalist Mikael Blomkvist in the thriller based on the first novel in the best-selling series from the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson.

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Q&A: Dragons! What are your top favorite things in dragon or just plain fantasy books?

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Question by Taylor: Dragons! What are your top favorite things in dragon or just plain fantasy books?

Dragons! What are your top favorite things in dragon fantasy books such as Eragon, etc.? And also what dragon fantasy books do you recommend for a teen crazy for fantasy books such as Lord of the Rings and Eragon? Go dragons and fantasy! W00t!

Best answer:

Answer by Michael
I prefer dragons in fantasy where they are more of a concept than a common figure. For example, in the wheel of time (a series you must read) the Dragon Reborn is unrelated to dragons entirely except for the fact that they represent power.

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What is with all the books where dragons bond with humans?

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Question by Thekherham: What is with all the books where dragons bond with humans?

First it was McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern, then Paolini’s Eragon, and now Nancy Novik’s Temeraire is another book (or should I say series) that has dragons bonding with humans. Is there some kind of literary law that says dragons have to bond with humans?

Best answer:

Answer by XaXa30
either bond with the humans or eat them :)

What do you think? Answer below!