Word: dragon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON, George MacDonald Fraser THE GARDEN OF EDEN, Ernest Hemingway THE INHUMAN CONDITION, Clive Barker THE LAST BLOSSOM ON THE PLUM TREE, Brooke Astor MONKEYS, Susan Minot "Q" CLEARANCE, Peter Benchley...
FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON...
Flashman and the Dragon, eighth in the series of Flashman adventures and one of the saltiest, immerses him in the Taiping Rebellion, a nominally Christian uprising that lasted 14 years and resulted in some 20 million deaths. Based on a reputation for valor, acquired by stumbling into dangerous places at well-publicized times, the intrepid Flashman becomes Britain's semiofficial envoy to the revolutionaries. His escapades, both military and carnal, bring verve and wit to a carefully footnoted tale. Young Tom Brown was certainly more the gentleman, but he could not possibly have grown up to be so much...
...turf over which the Vaughnum cousins are scuffling is Honeysuckle Hill, a rundown mansion with 25 acres of barren land. Cousin King (Stephen Root), the conniver, and his sugarcoated dragon of a wife Clairice (Jane Murray) want to raze the house and put up a "Christian shopping center." The twins, Ruth (Pat Nesbit) and Raymond (Ray Dooley), resent that plan but do not want to move back in either. Miss Anna (Lizan Mitchell), a black family retainer whom everyone believes to be an illegitimate child of Grandfather Vaughnum's, feels that the house is rightly hers. Bobby (Fritz Sperberg...
Rourke, who after the ignominy of Michael Cimino's 1985 The Year of the Dragon has now played the two most offensive male leads in recent memory (get this man a new agent), is so empty that he cannot wipe off the stupid smile he has been holding since Diner. He is, in sum, no more than another accessory to a life style that is all glitz and no substance, all money and no meaning--he is, of course, an arbitrageur who lives in an apartment packed with high-tech goodies. We get a hint of his life when Basinger...