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[close] **Group for Biography Fans on Goodreads** Welcome to our group for biography enthusiasts! This is a space for everyone who loves the fascinating life stories of people from various eras, cultures, and fields. Whether it's artists, scientists, politicians, athletes, or activists—biographies offer us a unique glimpse into the lives and challenges faced by these inspiring individuals. **What We Offer:** - **Book Discussions:** Share your thoughts on your favorite biographies and discover new recommendations from fellow members. - **Reading Lists:** Together, we create thematic reading lists, ranging from historical biographies to contemporary life stories. - **Author Talks:** We discuss significant biographies and the authors who wrote them. - **Thematic Discussions:** Join us in exploring key themes addressed in biographies—from success and failure to personal struggles and triumphs. - **Events:** Stay informed about upcoming book releases, readings, and other events related to biographies. Whether you're a passionate reader of biographies or just starting out, you’re in the right place! Let’s uncover the stories behind the names and celebrate the life journeys of the people who shaped our world. Join our group and let’s embark on a journey through the most inspiring biographies in history together!

[close] Advice and discussion on Hollywood and selling your novel. Book marketing tips. Hollywood has had a record breaking couple of years at the box office by doing Novel adaptions to film sequels and remakes and the studios don't plan on changing that anytime soon it’s a lot less risk doing it that way. Look at the movies made in the last three years and the Oscar winners and nominees. A top literary agent in one of the biggest talent agencies in the world, who works with Oscar winning writers and bestselling authors, shares the secrets that makes Authors/Studios/Publishers millions of dollars a year. Things this book covers: •How to make extra money with your novel in ways that publishers and studios use to make millions of dollars and DONT want you to know. “This tip alone will pay the price of this guide a thousand times over.” •How to write a novel that both Hollywood and audiences want. •Have a great Idea for a TV Show? Learn the Dexter, True Blood method. •How to turn your novel into a short film for free to get exposure. •How to get work adapting screenplay’s into novels. •Video Game Novel Adaptations. •How to market your novel using the “yellow brick road technique” from bestselling authors. •How to write a query Agents and producers NEED to read. •How to get your Novel to producer’s looking to make movies like yours. •Plus much, much more!

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[close] This is a group to explore the esoteric writings of The Catcher In The Rye through the lens of WW1 and WW2. To define that I take a quote from Philosophy Between The Lines "An esoteric writer or writing would involve the following characteristics: first, the effort to convey certain truths—the “esoteric” teaching—to a select group of individuals by means of some indirect or secretive mode of communication; second, the concomitant effort to withhold or conceal these same truths from most people; and third (a common but not strictly necessary characteristic) the effort to propagate for the sake of the latter group a fictional doctrine—the “exoteric” teaching—in place of the true doctrine that has been withheld." In Decadence: And Other Essays on the Culture of Ideas (1921) THE DISASSOCIATION OF IDEAS Jhere are two ways of thinking. One can either accept current ideas and associations of ideas, just as they are, or else undertake, on his own account, new associations or, what is rarer, original disassociations. The intelligence capable of such efforts is, more or less, according to the degree, or according to the abundance and variety of its other gifts, a creative intelligence. It is a question either of inventing new relations be- tween old ideas, old images, or of separating old ideas, old images united by tradition, of considering them one by one, free to work them over and arrange an infinite number of new couples which a fresh operation will disunite once more, and so on till new ties, always fragile and doubtful, are formed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argot