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Best-sellers James Patterson and Ann Patchett will help lead a nationwide effort to spread the good words of books.
Scary movie fans are still into "Paranormal Activity," though the horror franchise looks as though it's starting to run out of steam at the box office.
"Alex Cross" is a strictly by-the-numbers thriller — a detective on his way to a desk job takes after a sadistic high-profile killer, and things quickly get personal. There is something bracing and even refreshing about its honesty, though, in its willingness to execute tired cop-film cliches unapologetically, without any hint of a knowing wink.
James Patterson titled his 12th Alex Cross crime novel simply "Cross." The filmmakers who adapted it expanded the title to "Alex Cross."
"Alex Cross" _ James Patterson titled his 12th Alex Cross crime novel simply "Cross." The filmmakers who adapted it expanded the title to "Alex Cross." They might as well have gone for broke and called it "Tyler Perry's Madea's Stab at Expanding Her-His Hollywood Marketability as James Patterson's Alex Cross." Perry's name will draw his fans in. Patterson's name will draw his fans in. There's no trace of Madea in director Rob Cohen's adaptation, yet the spirit of the sassy grandma inevitably hangs over the project for viewers curious to see Perry playing it straight and dramatic. Alex Cross the man and "Alex Cross" the movie wind up suffering for it. It's perfectly reasonable for Perry to try to broaden his enormous popularity beyond the Madea lineage in his own raucous portraits of family life. It's also perfectly reasonable to say that casting Perry as Cross was a bad idea, though it's not necessarily the worst in a movie built on bad ideas. Perry looks the part of Patterson's big, athletic hero, but he's low-key-bordering-on-sleepwalker dull, and the standard-issue cop-vs.-serial-killer story presents Cross as more of a dopey psycho-babbler than a guy whose incisive mind cuts right to the heart of the case. With Edward Burns, Matthew Fox and Cicely Tyson. PG-13 for violence including disturbing images, sexual content, language, drug references and nudity. 102 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
One of the country's top publishers has turned to a man from the editorial side to run its business.
If James Patterson thought it were possible, he would shake the hand of every U.S. soldier. For now, he'll let a big bundle of his novels do the talking.
If James Patterson thought it were possible, he'd shake the hand of every U.S. soldier. For now, he'll let a big bundle of his novels do the talking.
It begins with darkness and murder. A young woman is brutally stamped to death by a teenager, and the most bitter irony is that she is the wrong woman. Denise Mina usually writes on the dark side, and she has perhaps outdone herself this time in a tragic study of the young and their sometimes cruel parents.
The sales machine that is James Patterson continues in the e-book era.
A self-published author has joined James Patterson, Stieg Larsson and others as a million seller on the Kindle.
James Patterson is an e-book mega-seller.
Mega-selling author James Patterson has handed out his first round of "Book Dollars for Scholars."
"Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel" (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $17.99), by James Paterson: In a world where preteens are exposed to images of violence, gore and a lot of sex, James Patterson has written a series of books for young readers that get grandma's seal of approval.
Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback
He explains this to a victim, but it's the audience who ought to heed the warning.
James Patterson, who worked for 15 years as a maintenance man at the theater and counted "Godfather of Soul" James Brown as a friend, said he already had taken a tour and didn't see the new look being a problem.
