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The fixer's dilemma: Chris Lehane and OpenAI's impossible mission

Chris Lehane is one of the best in the business at making bad news disappear. Al Gore’s press secretary during the Clinton years, Airbnb’s chief crisis manager through every regulatory nightmare from here to Brussels – Lehane knows how to spin. Now he’s two years into what might be his most impossible gig yet: as OpenAI’s VP of global policy, his job is to convince the world that OpenAI genuinely…

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Kojima on Darkness, Take My Hand

A book of this caliber only comes maybe once in a decade — so superior that the first time I read Darkness, I looked into buying the rights to adapt it into a film myself. To be honest, none of the follow-up novels surpass Darkness. Between the characters, the plot, the foreshadowing, and the villains, Darkness exhausts the majority of the series’ assets — to the point that I’ve wondered if maybe that was the real reason Lehane stopped writing them. Metal Gear itself is a long-running series, arriving at its twenty-fifth anniversary next year (2012). Each time a new Metal Gear comes out, I declare to the press, “This will be the final Metal Gear I will ever make.” My reason is the same as the one Lehane gave in that interview: all stories have an end. All creators, too, have an end. I would like to bring my story to its end before I arrive at mine. So why then do I keep on continuing the same series? The answer lies within the Kenzie & Gennaro series. As long as the fans fervently want more, the story cannot end. A creator may try to end it, but he will never be able to turn his back on his fans. And yet creators and their series are not eternal. That’s how we get stuck in this spiral. I gave Darkness, Take My Hand another read, and there I found a message from Lehane. In his message, I found advice — and an expression of my own inner feelings.

What, do you want to live forever?

—Hideo Kojima, The Creative Gene (2011)

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Review: Shutter Island

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

Book: Shutter Island

Author: Dennis Lehane

My Rating: ✯ ✯ ✯ ✯ (4 Stars)

Read: March 21, 2021

Synopsis:  

An arresting psychological thriller in which two US Marshals hunting for an escaped mental patient unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials, Nazi inspired eugenic work, and repressive mind control. This book was the basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio. In the year 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to investigate an unexplained disappearance. Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on this barren island, despite having been kept under constant surveillance in a locked, guarded cell. As a killer hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, hints of radical experimentation and covert government machinations add darker, more sinister shades to an already bizarre case. Because nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is remotely what it seems.

My Review: 

Wow, this book very pleasantly surprised me. I wasn’t sure at all what to expect when diving into this novel and I haven’t watched the movie but when I started it I thought that it would not be my cup of tea. However, I am glad I stuck it out because in all I really enjoyed this whole novel and I can’t wait to watch the movie now. I have also discovered an amazing author in the process and will definitely be getting to his other works a lot sooner now. I think it’s also important not to go into this book with too much background information because it’s pretty easy to follow and after a few chapters I was hooked. 

To begin with, Shutter Island is about two marshals who go to a remote island called Shutter Island, which hosts the incredibly insane, because a patient of theirs has escaped out of her cell and they need help locating her. However, things quickly get out of control and we find out that nothing on this island is as it seems. And this book’s plot- just WOW! It’s got to be incredibly hard to come up with something so original but this surpasses that. The pacing was great and after I was hooked, I couldn’t stop reading it because I wanted to see what happens. Also, this book probably has one of the biggest reveals I have encountered so far, it’s something akin to the surprise in The Silent Patient, for those who have read it and know what I’m talking about.

Further on, the characterization was pretty good. I wouldn’t say they were the most extraordinary characters I have ever encountered in a novel but they were definitely very complicated and complex people, with a lot of skeletons in their closets. This was rather a short read and maybe if it was a bit longer we could have seen a little bit more into the characters’ souls. However, with that said the main character, Teddy, definitely has a complete background and by the end of the book everything makes sense about why he acts the way that he acts. So, definitely not disappointed one bit. 

Finally, the writing was what I had problems with the most in this book. Even though it flawed well enough, there were times when it felt choppy and I had to reread parts to make sure I understood everything fully. This was very minimal but it still took me a few chapters to fully get used to the writing style because it’s not the one that feels the most natural to me in thrillers like this. All in all, not bad though.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed this quick, suspenseful thriller and will be recommending it to all my thriller nerds, if not just for that huge twist at the end. It definitely had me holding onto my seat once I got used to the writing style and the plot was set and established. I am so excited to watch the movie after this and can’t wait to compare this awesome book to that. It was a great read and I can’t wait to check out all of this author’s other works!

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Dennis Lehane - Zindan Adası Epub Pdf İndir

Dennis Lehane - Zindan Adası E Kitap İndirAdayı yıllardır görmedim. Ona son kez bir arkadaşımın limana giren teknesinden bakmıştım. Yaz pusunun altında, gökyüzüne öylesine savrulmuş bir boya lekesine benziyordu.Yirmi yıldan uzun süredir oraya adımımı atmadığım halde, Emily -bazen şaka yollu, bazen

Dennis Lehane - Zindan Adası Epub Pdf E Kitap İndir Dennis Lehane - Zindan Adası E Kitap İndirTeddy Daniels'in babası balıkçıydı. 1931 yılında, Teddy on bir yaşındayken, babası teknesini bankaya

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The drop - Chi è senza colpa

The drop – Chi è senza colpa

Dennis Lehane è una garanzia. Quando avrò guardato anche Gone baby gone e letto L’isola della paura (mea culpa, del primo ho letto solo il libro, del secondo ho visto solo il film), dovrò aspettare nuove uscite e lo farò in trepidante attesa.

Ho colmato le ultime (quasi!) lacune leggendo Chi è senza colpa (The Drop) e guardando il film, che al contrario del solito è precedente al libro:  infatti…

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La legge della notte - Tutti i miei errori - Dennis Lehane

La legge della notte – Tutti i miei errori – Dennis Lehane

Il tempo si affitta ma non si possiede mai. (TimE)

Se Quello era l’anno è forse il più bello, il più compiuto, Tutti i miei errori è sicuramente il più sofferto, il più doloroso della trilogia. Avevo già letto quest’ultimo ma resami conto di aver saltato il secondo capitolo, come ho già spiegato, ho deciso di ricominciare con ordine. Il protagonista del secondo e del terzo libro non è più Danny…

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