Five chapters, five background stories were added to the legendary movie series with interesting and funny details, mainly about Dr. Emmett Brown.
Bob Gale, John Barber, Erik Burnham: Back To The Future – Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines
Kategória: English
Nicholas Oldland: Walk on the Wild Side (The Bear, The Moose and The Beaver #5)
The 5th chapter is about why friendship is stronger than competitive nature and why it’s better to be together than to triumph over others at all costs.
Jonathan Stroud: The Dagger in the Desk (Lockwood & Co. #1.5)
This is a bridge short story between the first and second part, written by involving the fans of Lockwood & Co.
Jonathan Stroud: The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co. #2)
Lockwood and his team returns, and their second challenge is as fresh and exciting as the first!
Erik Kirschbaum: Rocking the wall
A concert that helped breaking down the Berlin Wall – a book with the full story of Bruce Springsteen’s show in East Berlin on 19 July 1988. In the introduction the author had doubts if it’s worth to write a…
Mack Collier: Think like a rock star
It’s an interesting new way of marketing based on the behaviour of the rock stars; to concentrate only on the committed fans of the company. The book shows how to do it and which the benefits are.
Dennis Bakke: The decision maker
Even the author mentioned that this is just one of the management-pattern, moreover his story is too idealized. Nonetheless, the idea is very interesting: who makes the decisions at a company?
Arnold Schwarzenegger: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
One book is not enough to show Schwarzenegger’s whole life. There are long books about less interesting people’s life, compared to them, the life of the bodybuilder world champion, the world-famous movie artist and the governor of California is so…
Chris Anderson: Makers!
Chris Anderson’s previous books (Free and The long tail) were brilliant, partly because he discussed two clear and unequivocal topics. Both of them could be reduced to an analysis of the math function: 1/x – Free said that the bottom…
Walter Isaacson: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs’ biography was a great surprise: it is not prejudiced, there aren’t too many overstatements, but rather entertaining, and it revealed exactly, what a leader and what a man he was.
Agnete Friis – Lene Kaaberbol: The Boy in the Suitcase
The basic situation of the book is that somebody found a naked and stunned 3 year old boy in a suitcase, in this situation the first thought of every parent would be, that it could have been his child. Apart…
Sandro Monetti: Colin Firth: The Man Who Would Be King
I’m not sure it is the best idea if the biggest fan wrote a book about an actor, how great soever journalist he may be, because the result would be too prejudiced. But maybe the similarly big fan readers need…
Stephen King: 11/22/63
The last King-novel is based on a very interesting idea about time-traveling to the sixties and a chance changing the history with saving President Kennedy. But King brings the reader too close to the workdays of the past – so…
Madeleine Albright: Madam Secretary
A short, fat, Czech old matron – that’s what she said about herself. At the same time let’s imagine that Bill Clinton ordered a bombardment againstSerbia, acting on her advice, she named the Chinese president a wooden dog, and how…
Jonathan Alter: The promise – President Obama, Year one
The book promises background stories about Obama’s White House by a confessedly narrowed author. The promise is fulfilled, there are many personal information about Obama, his family, his colleagues and their decisions. At the same time the quality of the…
Mark Logue – Peter Conradi: The King’s Speech
The book version disappoints the reader. As opposed to the movie there isn’t any feelings, drama in it, just a simple narrative of the relationship evolving between the king and his speech therapist, and a saga without real stories.
Kertész Imre: Save as…
It is a cliché that blogging is not a genre, just a content management system. But if blog-writing would be a genre, these would be is main components: minimum two entries per week, a main subject with some subtopics, one…
Lyudmila Ulitskaya: Imago
Great and gripping saga from the Russian novelist depicting the lives of three friends and their families. We get to know their biography – even to make it more complex, the lives of their other friends – in the typical…