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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Originally Published: 29, June 2021
Author: Quentin Tarantino
Genres: TV & Movie Tie-In, Fiction, action, adventure, Movie Industry

You surely watched the movie “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Now read the book and find out all the missing stuff and thoughts of characters that you can never see on a screen.

If you are a Tarantino fan, then for you this book is already recommended and points are a hundred out of a hundred. But For others… you can continue reading the review.

The book is enjoyable; with various parallel (and eventually intersecting) tales that lead to what I can only imagine is the start of the film. And, if the reader has some historical knowledge, and watched the movie already, then they will know what happens following The Last Chapter.

Tarantino effortlessly mixes history and fiction, leaving you wondering, about Bruce Lee and military and many other things, and then you’ll ask yourself about reality and fiction. Was that real in the movie or just the imagination of Tarantino?

The reader gets insider terminology and gets behind-the-scenes access to locations, people, and historical events that are only known to a very few elite Hollywood insiders. It's probably for the best that the majority of the characters in the book are deceased. They'd probably have something to say about how they're portrayed. Lots of it made me angry, but I calmed myself by saying it is just a book and a movie so just enjoy the comedy and book and in the case of the movie, the acting.

This review can go on and on but better you read the book and watch the movie if until now you didn’t. In summary, it’s about how Hollywood and the industry use a person and spits him/her out and the fakeness and other stories that are related to the writer and nod to his favorite movies, personalities, and other stuff from his life like his father. Still a good read and an enjoyable story and situation.


From The Back Cover:
“Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal — is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.

RICK DALTON – Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?

CLIFF BOOTH – Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . .

SHARON TATE – She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream, and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills.

CHARLES MANSON – The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

HOLLYWOOD 1969 – YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE”


I was going to give a hundred points but for what they tried to do with a real-life legend Bruce Lee, I am not going to give full points but still, it’s a hundred percent recommended read. Just don’t get angry if you are a fan of the great legend Bruce Lee and think of it as an attempt at getting more people talking about the movie and watch it; in simple words a cheap trick for publicity.


Rating: 90/100
Recommended: 100/100 YES.

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The Da Vinci Code

Originally Published: 2003
Author: Dan Brown
Book 2 of 5: Robert Langdon Series
Genres: Religious Mysteries, Religious Historical Fiction, Action, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery, Suspense, Detective, Jesus

Usually, I never talk about the books' story or use characters’ names in my reviews but this book needs all that in the review and I feel easy while writing this way for the first time and may do it in the future also with other books if needed. One more reason is that it is already a best seller and almost every book reader knows about this book so I can add a bit of info about what is happening in the book without spoiling it for any new reader.

Mr. Dan Brown's Angels & Demons, published in 2000, was the first to include the character Robert Langdon but I found it of no concern because that is the only thing connecting all the books in this series and you can actually read them all as solo stories in my opinion but I think it is a clever way of connecting these books because when Robert Langdon comes on the page, you already know his background and his skills and that is helpful if you read other parts of this series.

The Da Vinci Code follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu. Following a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris as they become involved in a dispute between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having a child together.

The main background storyline element of the novel is that the Merovingian kings of France were descended from the bloodline of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, based on themes from Clive Prince's The Templar Revelation (1997) and Margaret Starbird's novels.

The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) is also mentioned in the novel, though Dan Brown has said that it was not used as research material. And it doesn’t matter if you read this book just as a book of fiction and enjoy the idea and puzzle-solving with Robert Langdon.

The Da Vinci Code sparked widespread curiosity about the Holy Grail legend and Mary Magdalene's significance in Christianity's history. Many Christian denominations have criticized the book as an attack on the Catholic Church, and it has been resoundingly critiqued for historical and scientific flaws. Despite this, the novel became a worldwide bestseller and being translated into 44 languages by the time of writing this review (30/07/2021.)

Later, illustrated version of the book was published also to show the puzzles and other useful items.

This book was adapted with the same name as the book with actor Tom Hanks in the lead role as Robert Langdon.

For me the best thing was to play the game related to this book and movie, I loved solving puzzles in the game and now I am planning to play the game again.

A fast-paced book but I think it is better to read it in a silent place to enjoy it so no one can disturb you while reading.

I like the writing style of Mr. Dan Brown and the way he brings in twists after twists on every page and combines nonstop action is what many people want to read and once you read the books by him you really start to see the world differently.

From The Back Cover:
“MORE THAN 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s 'The Great American Read'

While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols. As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie Neveu sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to discover a trail of clues hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci—clues visible for all to see and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter.

Even more startling, the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion—a secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci—and he guarded a breathtaking historical secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle—while avoiding the faceless adversary who shadows their every move—the explosive, ancient truth will be lost forever."

Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 YES.

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Robert Langdon Series:
Book 01 - Angels & Demons - https://amzn.to/3fgoFhd
Book 02 - The Da Vinci Code - https://amzn.to/3yeD44R
Book 03 - The Lost Symbol - https://amzn.to/3idThly
Book 04 - Inferno - https://amzn.to/2VjItt9
Book 05 - Origin - https://amzn.to/2WF1kzp


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The Doomsday Conspiracy

Originally Published: 1991
Author: Sidney Sheldon
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance, Mashup Fiction, Fiction, Espionage, Thriller, Suspense, Science fiction

This was my first book by Late Mr. Sidney Sheldon. The way I got hooked to his writing was by accident and I am glad it happened.

One of my cousins was on a visit and she brought this book with her to our home. One night I was sitting in the dining room, having coffee and thinking about starting a new book. By chance I saw this book; it was on the table across from where I was sitting. I looked at the cover, read a bit from the back cover, and started reading.

I read a few pages and was about to leave for my room when I realized it was not my book so I left it where I found it. But I was already addicted to this new world.

The next day I found the book in the TV lounge and started reading again. Basically, I was reading it in episodes and it was like being on a drug that you can’t have because I didn’t want anyone to know that I am reading it. After all, I was not on talking terms with my cousin. Few days passed like this and then she left and took her book with her. I was still in the middle of the story so the next day I went to the book store and bought a copy of my own.

The story is gripping but sometimes sad, but that is a part of the plot and the mystery is going to make you crazy. Even with all the drama, action, suspense, and thrills, the book is written in a very simple and understandable way. Don’t confuse it with the doomsday conspiracy or the cold war because it has nothing to do with that. It is about something else and you should read it in the book instead of me telling you about it. The pace is almost perfect; you don’t get bored and even with the parts with “sadness.”

Some writers were so accurate about the new world conspiracies, that you start to believe that they had time machines or they already knew what the governments are planning because they had informants working for them. Mr. Sidney Sheldon was one of these writers.


Synopsis:
“OPERATION DOOMSDAY… ACTIVATE…

Commander Robert Bellamy of US Naval Intelligence is dispatched on a top secret mission. A weather balloon carrying sensitive military information has crashed in Switzerland. Bellamy must locate the ten witnesses to the incident so that they can be sworn to secrecy.

But as he conducts his search Bellamy begins to suspect that he, too, is being hunted, by an unknown lethal force… that what he was told about the balloon was only one part of an almost unbelievable happening..”

Influence: Dan Brown the author of The Da Vinci Code, named The Doomsday Conspiracy as the book that inspired him to write thriller fiction, citing its "simplicity of the prose and efficiency of the storyline"


This book and the story are going to make you believe.

Rating: 100/100
Recommended: 100/100 YES.

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