Download or read book My Twisted World the Story of Elliot Rodger written by Elliot Rodger and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-05-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manifesto that lays out grievances in painstaking detail, titled: “My Twisted World,” describes stories from a childhood onward that seemed to have laid the foundation for anger towards women, “alpha males,” and society in general.Describing plans for a “Day of Retribution,” on which: “All of those beautiful girls I've desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy.”Rodger, 22, left six people dead in a knife and gun rampage in the Californian University of Isla Vista in May 2014, before apparently shooting himself in the head after a firefight with police.His killing spree began after he posted a chilling video on YouTube titled “Elliot Rodgers Retribution,” in which he threatened to "slaughter" women who had rebuffed him.
Download or read book Twisted World written by Kate L. Mary and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty years ago a deadly virus swept the globe, ravaging the population. People died and came back as monsters, and through the tragedy that rocked the world survivors were born. Megan James is the product of survivors. Her parents crossed hundreds of miles of dangerous countryside to reach Atlanta, and the promise of a real future. Now, two decades later, Meg is facing a crisis of her own. Her father has vanished and is presumed dead, and her mom is teetering on the edge of insanity, but all Meg really wants is to return to the safe world she always thought she was living in. Only Atlanta isn't everything her parents thought it would be. The slums have grown and corruption is rampant, and despite the promise of democracy the new government has been slow to change. Through it all, the only consistency seems to be the zombies. Decayed and barely more than skeletons, there is no reason they should still be moving. But they are. Facing the harsh world alone, Meg gets a job in the entertainment district of Atlanta where she meets convict fighter Donaghy. Angry at the world and his circumstances, all the fighter really wants is to be left alone. But when he gets swept up in Meg's problems, he finds it impossible to turn his back on her. When a mysterious note resurrects old rumors about what the CDC is really doing, Meg can't help wondering if her father might have met the same fate that her uncle did twenty years earlier. With the help of Donaghy, she will search for the truth among the darkness that has settled over Atlanta, where they'll soon discover that the mutated virus has brought forth creatures nobody could have imagined, and the evil intentions of the men in charge are much more sinister than anyone ever thought possible, making the future look harsher than ever before.
Download or read book Strange Twisted World written by P.D. Shackelford and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen...seventeen...eighteen. Eric counted under his breath, and then it happened. What Eric feared everyday finally happened. The elevator stalled between floors and the lights went out. “Oh god...oh god! Please tell me this isn’t happening!” He quickly placed his hands against the back of the elevator wall and the moans and groans of the others faded into the background. He slid down the wall and crawled into fetus position against the corner of the elevator. The elevator music rung in his head. It only made the situation worse. “Shut it off! Shut that goddamn music off!” he screamed. Carol Pollack could not clearly see Eric in the dark, but his screams were very clear and disturbing. “What’s the matter with Eric?” Teddy quickly pushed the others to the side and knelt next to Eric in the dark elevator. “He’s having an episode. Stand back away from him.” “An episode?” Bill questioned. “What kind of episode? That’s all we need. We’re stuck in this elevator and this guy is going to go all berserk on us.” “Shut up, Billie! You don’t have a clue as to what he is experiencing right now. Get on that phone and them to shut the damn music off and get this elevator running quickly.” “Okay, okay,” Billie answered.
Download or read book The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes written by Leigh Rubin and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his comic strip, Rubes, cartoonist and "sit-down" comedian Leigh Rubin takes a careful look at everyday situations and human nature--and then pokes fun at them. The result is a hilarious and often uncannily accurate exploration of our crazy life and times. Featuring favorite Rubes cartoons handpicked by Rubin himself, The Wild and Twisted World of Rubes is a best-of collection that serves as a wonderful introduction to the comic strip People magazine calls "sneakily funny." Syndicated internationally by Creators Syndicate, Rubes is one of the most popular single-panel cartoons in the country. Rubes appears daily in more than 400 newspapers and is also featured each week as "Rubes Friday Funnies" on the long-running, nationally broadcast program AgDay. Leigh's blog, Tales from a Twisted Mind, is a consistent favorite on AgWeb and draws in tens of thousands of readers each month. Rubes is also featured in calendars as well as on T-shirts and greeting cards.
Download or read book A Whole New World written by Liz Braswell and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Aladdin had never found the lamp? This first book in the A Twisted Tale line will explore a dark and daring version of Disney's Aladdin. When Jafar steals the Genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish.To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. What happens next? A Street Rat becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And readers will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again.
Download or read book The Twisted Worlds of Philip K Dick written by Umberto Rossi and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip K. Dick was one of the most popular science fiction novelists of the 20th century, but the contradictory and wily writer has troubled critics who attempt encompassing explanations of his work. This book examines Dick's writing through the lens of ontological uncertainty, providing a comparative map of his oeuvre, tracing both the interior connections between books and his allusive intertextuality. Topics covered include time travel, alternate worlds, androids and simulacra, finite subjective realities and schizophrenia. Twenty novels are explored in detail, including titles that have received scant critical attention. Some of his most important short stories and two of his realist novels are also examined, providing a general introduction to Dick's body of work.
Download or read book STORM THE TWISTED WORLD THE ROBOTS OF DANDERZEI written by Martin Lodewijk - Don Lawrence and published by Classic Collection. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm is an astronaut in the 21st century who makes a journey to the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. The Great Red Spot is an anticyclonic storm which has already been there for at least 300 years. Once arrived, his ship gets dragged into the storm. When Storm manages to escape, it seems he has traveled through time. The civilizations on Earth have collapsed and turned into a barbaric society. This is where the adventures of Storm begin.
Download or read book Part of Your World written by Liz Braswell and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Ariel had never defeated Ursula? It's been five years since the infamous sea witch defeated the little mermaid... and took King Triton's life in the process. Ariel is now the voiceless queen of Atlantica, while Ursula runs Prince Eric's kingdom on land. But when Ariel discovers that her father might still be alive, she finds herself returning to a world--and a prince--she never imagined she would see again.
Download or read book Wilde and Twisted written by Willow Erdem and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver-tongued lawyer, Linus Twist, has expensive tastes. The sharpest suits, the purest drugs, and the dirtiest sex; Linus wants it all in excess, especially the sex, and especially with the wrong types of men. So when he impetuously follows a foxy redhead into the gym shower and gets kissed like it means something, Linus knows he's headed for certain disaster. Finnigan Wilde is a dreamer, a wanna-be novelist, searching for himself. In love with the idea of love, Finn only knows what he feels. He woos Linus with lilacs, speaks to him in filthy poetry, and touches him like he doesn't care who's watching. But can Linus set aside his sinister tendencies, his ambition, and one vital fact: that, as far as the world is concerned, Finn is straight? Wilde & Twisted is a bisexual-awakening, opposites-attract novel, with a happily-ever-after.
Download or read book FREAK written by David Perel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this shocking expos of Michael Jackson, Ely focuses on one man's desperateattempts to stay on top, even as he spirals downward out of control. Includesup-to-date information on Jackson's criminal indictments, along with 8 pp. ofrevealing photos.
Download or read book All In written by Jonathan D Cohen and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gambling, the risky enterprise of chance, is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Office March Madness brackets, a day at the race track, a friendly wager, the random ridiculous Super Bowl prop bet, bingo night, or the latest media frenzy over the Powerball jackpot—all emphasize the ubiquity of this major economic force and cultural phenomenon. Approximately 70 percent of Americans regularly engage in some form of betting, amounting to over $140 billion in combined casino and lottery revenue every year. A hundred years ago, however, legal gambling was a rarity in the United States. A fresh take on the history of modern American gambling, All In provides a closer look at the shifting economic, cultural, religious, and political conditions that facilitated gambling’s expansion and prominence in American consumerism and popular culture. In its pages, a diverse range of essays covering commercial and Native American casinos, sports betting, lotteries, bingo, and more piece together a picture of how gambling became so widespread over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing from a range of academic disciplines, this collection explores five aspects of American gambling history: crime, advertising, politics, religion, and identity. In doing so, All In illuminates the on-the-ground debates over gambling’s expansion, the failed attempts to thwart legalized betting, and the consequences of its present ubiquity in the United States.
Download or read book A Haunted Mind written by Bob Curran and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably no American writer has had more of an impact on the modern horror scene than Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the man who created the Cthulhu Mythos, with its strange gods, eerie places, and forbidden books. But what sort of a man was Lovecraft, how did he create such a terrible universe, and where did his inspiration come from? Was it, as some have argued, based on esoteric knowledge forgotten or even denied to all sane people? In A Haunted Mind, Dr. Bob Curran explores what motivated Lovecraft—his personal life is just as strange as some of his creations—and drove him to create his terrible cosmos. Using both folklore and history, Dr. Curran investigates a wide variety of Lovecraftian mysteries. A word of warning: you may never look at Lovecraft—or the world—in exactly the same way again!
Download or read book Twisted Histories Altered Contexts written by Deborah B. Gewertz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centres of influence, struggle to sustain some degree of autonomy. They describe the Chambri caught up in world processes of social and cultural change, and attempt to create a 'collective biography' which conveys the intelligibility and significance of the twentieth-century experience of these Papua New Guineans whom they have come to know well. This biography consists of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about Chambri who are negotiating their objectives while entangled in systemic change and confronting Western representations of modernization and development.
Download or read book A Twisted Love Story written by Ace Gray and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boy meets girl. Boy falls for girl. Boy marries girl. And they both live happily ever after. Right? Not quite. I fell for the boy. So slowly I barely noticed, then all at once. I loved my best friend with my entire heart, letting him fill up the holes my family had dug. But boys don't fall for other boys. Just ask him. So my story turned into boy meets boy. Boy falls for boy. Boy gets rejected. Boy meets girl. Boy meets boy. Boy loses them over and over and over again. Pretty twisted, right? My life story was really just a screwed up love story. A search for the one person that understood the darkness inside me. The monster I'd become. But sometimes the holes are too deep and far too bloody, for anyone-boy or girl-to fill.
Download or read book Something Twisted written by Ace Gray and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'd spent my life as a plaything. A toy to be used by powerful and deadly men in whatever way they pleased. So I was just as surprised as anyone else that I had feelings left. Feelings that lead me to fight for true love while damning myself. And that's just where this story begins. Desperate and alone I turned back to my childhood home. The first wicked place I'd known with the darkest villain among them. My stepfather. But I could weather his storm in exchange for safety. I had to.What I didn't expect to find was Niall McDonough. The only man I'd ever really loved had reappeared only to become one of them. Someone ruthless and cruel. He wants to ruin me. As my stepfather's savage soldier he might just do it. But then again, twelve years ago a fortune teller predicted I'd need just such a soldier to save both my heart and soul. ***this book can be read as a complete stand-alone or following Twisted Secrets/as the fifth book in the Twisted world*******This book contains graphic sex, violence, uncomfortable sexual encounters, and dub con. It's intended for mature audiences, over 18 only****
Download or read book Mindswap written by Robert Sheckley and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic science fiction novel from beloved author Robert Sheckley returns to print in Mindswap. In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Twisted written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gritty and hard hitting, this is thoughtful teen fiction at its finest. Seventeen-year-old Tyler is the popular boy in high school after years of being "the geek". But then Bethany - rich, blonde, beautiful - is the victim in a teenage sex scandal, and somehow Tyler is the prime suspect. Can Tyler find a way out of the mess he's in?
