The String of Pearls by Thomas Preskett Prest is a dark book you'll love so badly.

 

It is in fact the story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

 

Strange street Fleet Street.

 

Once, as also written in the London's biography by Peter Ackroyd Fleet Street was an insane little river, but because of sanitary problems and illness that the river brought to the people, during the time the administration transformed it in a street, although a touch if insanity it is still going on.

 

No one knows if this one is a legend or not.

 

Surely London is not just the capital of UK but also a city avid for blood and so it seems that once upon a time there was a weird weird strange barber called Sweeney Todd in Fleet Street.

 

This book, The String of Pearls inspired the legendary musical by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler created and launched in 1979 and winners of eight Tony Awards.

 

 

Later Johnny Depp would have created, based on the musical by Sondheim with Tim Burton as director Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street . It was 2007. The story of Sweeney Todd told in this book, is pretty different from the musical and the movie.

 

The horror, I wouldn't never read it differently, in different ways is left to the imagination of us, readers, but the book is written with great linguistic property and class.

 

The writing style of 1800 is adorable because punctual, precise, can I add: perfect?

 

Anyway the lovely partner of Sweeney Todd, a barber of Fleet Street has a store with mr Jarvis Williams and there they sell wonderful delicious sweet meat pies and trests.

 

They are loved by everyone. They're the sweetest ones you can find around and who knows if attracted by mrs. Lovett or simply because the meat is so delicious, the store is always plenty of people.

 

Mrs. Lovett in love with Sweeney Todd, a good criminal pair this one.

 

Sweeney Todd has a good work as barber, although strangely not all the men who enter in his shop for making their beard go out after the work.

 

Who knows why. A dog is still waiting for his owner...

 

Through a trap door Sweeney after the service, in general he cut the throat at his victims, would send them to Mrs Lovett for being "prepared" to becoming delicious meat for the customers of her delicious reality... Sure something starts to go bad for Sweeney Todd. Killing means also someone who start to search for some missing people. Johanna is searching for her fiance, and at the same time also Colonel Jeffrey is searching for his friend Thornhill strangely missing. Where are them all?

 

Maybe in the stomach of some very satisfied people, who knows? but no one still know this horrific reality.

 

Surely all of them spotted the last time close to Sweeney Todd's barber's shop.

 

So later, where did they go? Great relevance in the story also at the poor boy Tobias Ragg, one of the most interesting characters of the book, the young apprentice of Sweeney Todd...

 

Go for this book if you search for pure horror but also a horror told with great respect and without to go into details that could scare people.

 

It's a classic, It says all the word: classics.The String of Pearls like all the classics has the characteristic of eternity and immortality.

 

I thank Endeavour Press for this book.

 

 

 

Anna Maria Polidori

Husband and I have officially seen Transcendence. It was not fabulous, I don't think it would even make the top 25 of my favorite movies, but it was decent. I have no idea why it's getting so much hate from critics and audiences. But I did really enjoy it, once I got past some of the logic flaws. Like an anti-technology terrorist group who still employs hackers and uses bullets laced with radiation....pretty high tech stuff.

 

I also think that they seriously underplayed their talent. They had two hugely good actors with Paul Bettany and Cillian Murphy, but they didn't really do much with them. And Depp seemed to deliver a very uninspiring performance once he becomes AI, dunno what happened there.

 

Ultimately it was a film that made me think, and I enjoyed it even though I can see the flaws in it. I do think critics are being much too hard on it though.

Johnny Depp : a photographic celebration... As the publisher's name suggests, this volume is roughly the size and heft of a brick, and consists of a stack of between 250 and 300 sheets of ca. 5x7 glossy paper printed with photographs of Johnny Depp (chiefly in role, from his long career), and, on the opposing page, a quotation from Depp or one of his associates, or a "factoid" about his career. It's well enough put together; the binding doesn't look as if it will give way soon; the layout has been varied so that the text doesn't always appear on the same side and the photograph on the other; and there's a good variety of subject matter, though no particular logic in the order of its presentation. A very few of the photographs (red carpet or casual, rather than in role) seem rather awkward now, given that Depp has broken up with his long-time common-law wife, Vanessa Paradis. But really, this is a volume created to be a gift book for a fan whose memories of Depp are from his movie roles; a coffee-table item though not in the standard coffee-table format. It was given to me (and appreciated) in that spirit.

Incidentally, the Pirates movies are well represented, so fans of Orlando Bloom also get a fair smattering of photos of him in context.

A funny little adventure of a boy from Paris. and a girl who is convinced she comes from an alien planet looking for her "chosen one." More review to come.

This book got me hooked from the start... the wacky, plain weird characters had me laughing... and i find it very sweet, Zelda and David... they were so cute together... David might be coward at first but he's taking chances when it comes to Zelda...
Malou rockzzz men, she's random and way hilarious!! Love. Love. Love<3