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By Collins Fobriabout a year ago in Education
Dorothy Sayers: Brilliant Writer
Dorothy Sayers was indeed a remarkable writer, known for her detective novels and thrillers, as well as her contributions to Christian apologetics. Her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy for English audiences showcased her dedication to purposeful work. Despite facing challenges as a woman in her time, she achieved success and earned recognition for her intellectual gifts. Her friendship with notable intellectuals like C.S. Lewis further enriched her life and work. Sayers' legacy continues, and she is rightfully considered one of the most influential English women authors of the 20th century.
By Collins Fobriabout a year ago in Writers
Top Fiction Authors
Wow, that's quite an extensive list of popular fiction authors! Stephen King being at the top is not surprising, given his incredible popularity and prolific writing career. If you want to try your hand at writing a riddle or a stupendously long narrative, I'd be happy to help or provide some guidance. Just let me know what you have in mind! sometimes you read a book that you just can't put down how do you like it and other times you find an author whose books you can't stop reading welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 most popular fiction authors for this list we've looked at a combination of market performance and artistic merit in order to determine the best popular fiction authors thank you for the Hello for lists looking more specifically at classic English or international writers be sure to check out our videos on those topics all right now what do you do to try my hand at writing a riddle it stupendously long narrative number 10 george RR martin in tears winters cooling in the modern world there seems to exist two groups of people those who read Game of Thrones before watching the TV series and those who tuned in to the show before getting their hands on the original inspiration I am the sword in the darkness i Watcher on the walls I am the shield that guards either way a lot of us have read george RR martin my opinion has always been that the battle between good and evil is fought within the individual human heart all of us have the capacity for good all of us have the capacity for evil writer of a Song of Ice and Fire the fantasy novel series that inspired the show Martyn seen his fictional imaginings translated to the screen quite successfully when you play the game of Thrones you win will you die so successfully in fact he's been labelled the American Tolkien it's sex it's violence it's a very good read number nine philip pullman behavior of these particles is quite unmistakable dust is flowing into this man through his demon from a city in another world well much like ours in a parallel universe coexisting with our own to be a popular writer you naturally have to please a lot of people and there are few with a demographic as wide reaching as Philip Pullman's there are all sorts of reasons why fairytales are important and interesting and valuable to us one is that they engage with really deep human themes the British Ward Smith employs his own self explained brand of stark realism most famously in the His Dark Materials trilogy this trio of titles is aimed predominantly at the young adult market but it's invariably picked up by kids and grownups as well his reimagining of reality with generous helpings of unreality has many hooked and hankering for a demon of their very own just let them try to stop us number eight Tom Clancy after Grozny mr. Ryan an author first and a political critic second Tom Clancy saw his public profile rise in parallel to the popularity of his books I tell people the most important talent in writing his persistence that's probably the most important talent in anything his persistence sticking with it seeing it through not giving up his more than 100 million books sold attest to how strong that popularity is the Russians will stop at nothing to prevent Rania's from defecting they are desperate they've invented this story that he's crazy because they need our help to sink him before we can safely contact us closely associated with novels and stories tackling military life the Cold War the post Cold War era and espionage klancy appeals strongly to a male audience the author passed away in 2013 but his books remain strong sellers as do his video games that in addition to the film versions featuring his Jack Ryan character promised to keep that popularity alive for years to come anyway you can get that voice cut on a field trip look off your face not a chance that's what I like about you number seven Dan Brown one of the 21st century's greatest literary success stories Dan Brown has had readers waiting on his every word ever since Digital fortress was published in 1998 I wasn't under the impression that episode had endeared me to the Vatican oh it didn't but he did make you it was forma formidable a formidable rounds books about Harvard professor of religious I cannot sin balaji robert langdon including 2,000 angels and demons and 2003's The Da Vinci Code have propelled him to massive success thank you readers have been 2nd and 3rd guessing the author and his creation as they've followed the intricate clues that form the treasure hunts in these novels 5 dives each with 26 letters that's 12 million possibilities I've never met a girl who knew that much Brown has brought highbrow topics to the masses with healthy doses of conspiracy theories and thrills and he's built an impressive and loyal fan base as a result when you're a creative person whether you're a writer and artist a musician all you have is your own taste and you write to that taste and then you just hope people share your tastes number six Robert Ludlum what's your name what's your name all four of our writers leading up to this point have seen their works adapted for film and TV but few books have been brought to the screen as successfully as those of Robert Ludlum The Bourne Identity The Bourne Supremacy and the Bourne Ultimatum have all been brought to life with Matt Damon as the main man Jason Bourne is dead you hear me he drank two weeks ago the films did awesomely well but there's no smoke without fire Ludlum unfortunately passed away before the first film was made but his legacy lives on look at us look at what they make you give with an estimated 292 500 million books in print that's quite a legacy number five Michael Crichton another author who sadly no longer with us Michael Crichton's crowning glory in terms of his career as a writer was surely Jurassic Park can it happen because I know you've done a lot of research on this I wouldn't worry about it I think dinosaurs have been dead for a long time in there and they'll stay that way for quite a while the 1990 novel became a 93 Steven Spielberg super film and crichton's 95 follow-up heaped more Hollywood royalties at the authors door with an impressive educational background in medicine which allowed him to create the massively popular TV hospital drama ER Crichton's works would often carry a scientific and technological theme running alongside mankind's struggle to advance further he was brilliant at outside of the box thinking leave him alone he leaves us alone maybe he does my solution for 300 years number 4 John Grisham an old adage says that you should write about what you know and John Grisham knows a lot about law saying about 25 Bob you need not kill those kids for 10 years before becoming an author he worked within the courtroom when I wrote a time to kill 30 years ago was very autobiographical I was that small-town lawyer trying to you know survive and dream another big trial ever since his authorial debut in 1989 with a time to kill he has been relaying his experiences back to us in books like the firm the Pelican brief the client and the Rainmaker we've responded by buying 275 million copies of his books this is Jack Elam antics actual senior claims manual and within it there is an executive memorandum in title section you Grisham is one of only three authors to sell 2 million copies on a first printing the other two Tom Clancy and our next lady of modern literature you take my breath away number three JK rowling if you've never heard of Harry Potter then you've had your head in some seriously dense sand the boy wizard is world-famous and his creator is heralded by many as one of the great authors of the 21st century I don't think I had ever felt so excited I thought I'd love to write that I didn't ever thought about writing for children I'd never thought about aiming anything at that age group and yet it was the thing I was meant to write JK Rowling has seen her seven strong book series translate into eight box-office smashing blockbuster movies wielding its magic all over the globe from Transfiguration class to professor Trelawney from birdie bot tuba tilda back shot rawlings magical world has become as familiar as our own as a result she's had muggles of all ages transfixed for years you're a wizard Harry I'm a what a wizard and a thumpin good and I'd wager once you trade up a little number to j.r.r tolkien one page of this particular paper was left blank glorious nothing to read so I scribbled on his eye counting but in a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit while Harry Potter is an undoubted hero within the fantasy genre his story is but one in a long list of fantastical epics a list topped and trail blazed by Tolkien one the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit the two most well-known adventuress set within the English writers magical realm of middle-earth set the standard for all fantasy based novels which have followed what has most captured the imagination for generations is the phenomenal attention to detail Tolkien leaves no stone unturned no Hobbit whole unexplored and no reader unimpressed the immensely popular film series based on his work have only added two tokens popularity in recent years before we unveil our top pick here are a few honorable mentions would you kill another partner you're not my partner I will design Cortlandt you'll put your name on it you will keep all the fees but you will guarantee that it will be built exactly as I design was actually worn by Queen Victoria when she was a little girl make sure that my eyes I'm blessing blood but not human I haven't been human for 200 years number 1 Stephen King there's Johnny thrilling his way into first place Stephen King is about as prolific a writer as the world has ever seen and he's maintained his popularity throughout his lengthy publishing career opening his authorial account with kerry in 1974 before following up with Salem's Lot and The Shining King very much started as he meant to go on continually reinventing the contemporary horror genre his books have often been made into movies helping to keep his name constantly before the public the result an estimated 300 to 350 million books sold in a variety of genres King is King today I've written some pretty awful things in my time if they can't differentiate I mean hey guys I'm alright you know I'm but of course I'd say that one night do you agree with our list which author do you like to read for more fashionably fictional top 10s published every day be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com remember you're tradecraft you
By Collins Fobriabout a year ago in Writers
Tensions in West Africa. Content Warning.
Hello and welcome to the program! I'm with Joche Rogers. The janitors of Burkina Faso and Mali have issued a joint statement warning against any military intervention in Niger Republic, saying it would be considered a declaration of war against their nations. Ecowas has imposed sanctions and threatened to authorize force to reinstate Niger's deposed president. The situation is causing tensions between Western allies and Russia in the region. Additionally, protests are escalating in Senegal, and Sudan is facing a deteriorating humanitarian situation due to conflict. In Nigeria, efforts are being made to curb the spread of diphtheria through vaccination campaigns. Meanwhile, an eight-year-old chess prodigy in Nigeria is using her skills to promote peace and empowerment among children
By Collins Fobriabout a year ago in Education
What Event is Socialism?. Content Warning.
It's great to hear about your political journey and how you got involved in leftist politics. The growth and popularity of Marxist ideas have been notable in recent years. It's important to keep steering the movement in the right direction and ensure it remains true to its principles. The "Deprogramming" podcast sounds like a compelling platform to discuss these ideas and reach a broader audience. It's encouraging to seme it kind of started back in 2016-ish uh with Bernie his campaign when he suddenly you know he was saying all these things oh wow I've never heard that before that that kind of makes sense why don't we have you know Universal Health Care and all that stuff we know oh other countries have that that's cool why don't we have that and that kind of started you know going down the rabbit hole like it did for a lot of Americans where you know I learned that oh Bernie's not actually a socialist he's a Social Democrat okay what's the difference between social democracy and socialism um you know things like that um and then I started doing some reading myself about you know what socialism is really about and then I read Lenin I was like okay I get it now this makes sense this is for me um and then come 2020 with the botched coronavirus response um you know in the nation with the most resources to bring to bear to to handle this pandemic we just didn't do it we just sacrificed a million Americans on the altar of capitalism um we had to make the line go up and that was kind of the straw that broke the camel's back from me that's when I I felt the need to to Pivot to use my platform for something useful rather than you know general interest sciency stuff I was like all right let's talk about socialism let's let's bring some other people on board and uh that was pretty much it for me but ever since then it's been more or less going down the rabbit hole reading as much as I can watching other uh socialist creators I've teamed up with Hakeem and you gobnik to make a podcast and it's all been very fun very rewarding much more so than what I was doing before that seems to be the a general consensus we used to talk about Bernie as a sort of Trojan Horse where like you have social democracy and then inside you have you know hardcore Marxism leninism and uh it's it's the path that I know Eddie and myself uh took and a lot of the friends that we grew up with doing socialist activism they ended up taking a similar path by the way I just wanted to say that the name um the deprogramming of the podcast uh it's it's such a good name because the the word that Mao used to use for a similar phenomenon was brainwashing but it doesn't have the same positive connotation podcast so well thank you yeah we were pretty pleased when we came up with that one and uh that was that was a unanimous vote for sure we like it I'm also a very big fan of puns so the the double meaning of that really hits me yeah I'm glad you guys like it yeah we're we're thrilled with the response we've gotten from the podcast so far I mean it was when we launched it was like number one on the educational charts for the for that week uh over you know garbage like Jordan Peterson's podcast and he had tremendous reach so that was uh really a vote of confidence for us that okay maybe people do want to listen to this sort of thing absolutely I have oppression lack of real Capital behind us more and more people every year and I've I've been at this a long time especially in the last couple of years even more than with Bernie more and more and more people are just learning about Marxism it's really inspiring yeah totally agree and it's it's something that I wouldn't have expected even a few years ago how much it's kind of taken off and it's it's really heartening to see that we just have to make sure that you know we do continue to steer it in the right direction it doesn't become co-opted like a lot of things have uh recent
By Collins Fobriabout a year ago in Interview