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Fortnite V6.10 Patch Notes Detailed, Adds new Quadcrasher Vehicle and PS4 Resolution Increase

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Destiny 2: Festival of the Lost Detailed, Includes New Haunted Forest Horde Mode

Plus, matchmaking.

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Turning off the HUD in Red Dead Redemption 2 Supposedly Makes NPCs Offer More Detailed Directions

Read Dem Directions.

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Post Launch Content Detailed – PS4 Exclusive Period Reduced to Seven Days

Featuring the return of Nuketown, a new specialist, and more.

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Spider-Man PS4's Cast of Characters – Their Comic Origins Detailed

A handy guide to the faces and masks you’ll see in Insomniac’s webslinging adventure.

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Detailed All In Zero Hour (Pre-Show) Review

Hello! Today I’ll be working on back-to-back articles to cover All In with more details and opinions. I’m splitting it up because some may not care too much about the pre-show, but I’d feel bad…

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The Division 2 is Now Available for Preorder, Private Beta Detailed

So many different editions to choose from.

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Destiny 2: Forsaken Weapon Buffs and Masterwork Changes Detailed

At this time’s livestream confirmed off the brand new powers of a Guardian.

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Destiny 2: Foresaken Weapon Buffs and Masterwork Changes Detailed

Right this moment’s livestream confirmed off the brand new powers of a Guardian.

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Tony Atlas Gives Detailed Account Of Bruiser Brody's Murder 30 Years Ago

Right now marks the 30th anniversary of dropping an expert wrestling legend when Frank Donald Goodish, aka Bruiser Brody, was murdered in a Puerto Rican locker room. Jose Gonzalez, who carried out the masked character…

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As Rita Oras new album drops a look back at her biggest fashion moments It might feel like Rita Ora has been a prominent fixture of the UK music and pop culture scene for a while now but in fact shes only just releasing her second album. Woes with record labels mean Phoenix which is released today has been a long time coming. Luckily even when Ora hasnt been making new music shes still been a steady feature both onstage and on the red carpet. This means the 27-year-old singer has really had time to hone her personal sense of style which is eclectic to say the least. A cursory look on Instagram shows you just how often Ora changes her hairstyle from long blonde and poker straight to red and choppy in the blink of an eye and her sartorial decisions are just as diverse. Fashion and beauty brands are well aware of Oras appeal and shes done notable collaborations with the likes of Adidas and Rimmel. Outside of these big collabs Ora is one of the most interesting faces in fashion at the moment and here are some of her key looks. Nearly naked (PA) 2018 really has been the year of sheer. Runways and red carpets are jam packed with see-through dresses and Ora jumped on board with this trend for Augusts MTV Video Music Awards. She wore a Jean Paul Gaultier couture gown that was definitely not for the shy and retiring Ora later told Vogue she wanted the looks of the night to reflect her edgy badside. (Isabel Infantes/PA) Even though the fashion world is newly embracing sheers Oras been on the nearly naked hype for a long time. We cant really blame her for solely wearing bodysuits and crop tops when performing onstage not only does she look amazing but it would give her a whole lot more freedom to pull off those complicated dance moves. (Isabel Infantes/PA) And in case you were wondering how Ora stays toned its apparently down to daily circuit training. She tells Shape: I usually work out for one or two hours depending on how much time I have. I do three circuits and repeat that three times. I mostly focus on my thighs and my bum so I do a lot of squats and weight lifting. And I do one circuit of cardio. Keeping it classy (Ian West/PA) Unsurprisingly Ora can really deliver when it comes to the big events. Take this years Met Ball the theme was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination where Ora was dressed head-to-toe in Prada. Her black gown had a long chiffon train and was pure elegance and the singer made sure she paid due homage to the theme with her extravagant spiky headpiece adorned with black roses. Read more Even in big events like this Ora stays true to her quirky style in this instance with the addition of a bright yellow bag. (PA) Ora tends to leave her hair loosely curled when shes going for full elegance like when she attended an Oscars party wearing a red Zuhair Murad gown. The overall impression was one of Old Hollywood glamour and looked totally effortless. (Ian West/PA) For this years Brit Awards Ora went down the romantic princess route with a fluffy pale blue gown from Ralph and Russo. This definitely is a lot of dress to pull off but Ora makes sure shes wearing the dress and its not wearing her. Taking risks (Ian West/PA) Even though theres no doubt Ora can do elegance whenever she wants what we really appreciate is her experimentation. Shes not one to play it safe when it comes to her fashion choices who else would walk the red carpet dressed in a bathrobe with a towel on their head? In all honesty we bow down to Ora in this instance because she managed to make coming out of the shower look glamorous. And as an extra bonus she wouldnt have needed to bother drying and styling her hair for this look. (Ian West/PA) Or what about the time Ora turned up to the Radio 1 Teen Awards dressed in Burberrys iconic nova check complete with the matching hat? Considering how baggy and loud the outfit was we can safely assume Ora was having a whole lot of fun with it. (Ian West/PA) Clashing neon colours chiffon overlays floral appliques and gloves up to her elbows this is the kind of eclectic ensemble that would look a bit off on anyone else but totally at home on Ora. The post As Rita Oras new album drops a look back at her biggest fashion moments appeared first on Viral Hug. Viral Hug November 23 2018 at 05:02PM
All of the film-inspired fashion from Ariana Grandes thank u next music video from Legally Blonde to Bring It On Since the release of Ariana Grandes new single thank u next which pays homage to the singers exes and the lessons that theyve taught her Arianators across the globe have been eagerly awaiting the launch of the songs music video. After much anticipation a few days ago Grande finally started sharing sneak peeks from the video painting a fuller of the videos film-inspired concept much to the delight of her fans. In the music video which hasnt yet been released Grande places an emphasis on the songs message of self-love by lovingly recreating looks from popular female-led films including Legally Blonde Mean Girls and 13 Going on 30. From Elle Woods Noughties workout gear to Jenna Rinks shoulder-length hairstyle heres a lowdown of all of the iconic looks being featured in the upcoming thank u next music video: Legally Blonde Ever since the release of Legally Blonde in 2001 Elle Woods drive to become a successful lawyer and her unparalleled dress sense has made her one of cinemas most iconic characters. Grande pays tribute to her in her music video for thank u next in true retro style donning Woods orange and blue workout gearand using several props including her orange iBook and her pink fuzzy phone. However the Legally Blonde references dont stop there. Jennifer Coolidge who stars as beautician Paulette in the film will also be makingan appearance. New best friend Grande wrote alongside a photo of herself with Coolidge on set of the music video. Grandes references to Legally Blonde caught the attention of the films star Reese Witherspoon who responded with one of the comedys most memorable quotes. Also two weeks ago I saw Cameron Diaz at Fred Segal and I talked her out of buying a truly heinous angora sweater! Witherspoon wrote in a tweet thats garnered almost 150000 likes. Mean Girls Earlier this month Grande released the lyric video for thank u next with many speculating that the font in the video had been based on the Burn Book from Mean Girls. The singer later seemed to confirm their suspicions when she posted a series of photos with two other girls with the caption: Meet the plastics. While Grande hasnt revealed any more sneak peeks of the outfits inspired byMean Girlsthat shell potentially be wearing in the music video many have been expressing their excitement over the films inclusion. Look Ariana Grandes thank u next music video is going to be Mean Girls inspired and I cannot explain to you the level of freaking the hell out that I am right now! one person wrote on Twitter. 13 Going on 30 Thirtyflirty and thriving a 13-year-old Jenna Rink says as she sits in her basement closet with her dream house in 13 Going on 30 the same dollhouse that Grande has reproduced for her thank u next music video. The 2004 film which tells the tale of a 13-year-old whos magically transformed into a 30-year-old overnight is the third film featured in the video with Grande donning a shorter hairstyle to emulate Jennifer Garner. In one photo taken on the set of the music video Grande can be seen wearing a red top with her hair pinned back in a similar fashion to Garner in one of the films final scenes. Bring It On The fourth and final film making an appearance in the thank u next music video is Bring It On as shared by Grande on social mediayesterday. The singer shared photos of herself dressed in the red uniform of the Toroscheerleading squad from Rancho Carne High School previously worn by Kirsten Dunst and Eliza Dushku in the 2000 teen comedy. Grande also shared a photo of the women starring as the opposing East Compton Clovers cheerleading squad. Following the Bring It On reveal the singer received a seal of approval from actor Gabrielle Union who played Clovers team captain Isis in the film. Why yes I am an East Compton Clover! Are we meeting today Ariana Grande Ill bring the punch Union tweeted to which Grande replied: Im gonna pass out. Extra: TheFirst Wives Club While TheFirst Wives Clubisnt going to be referenced in the thank u next music video Grande paid tribute to the 1996 comedy during her first live performance of the song on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She and two backup singers dressed in all-white ensembles while performing the hit song mimicking the outfits worn by Diane Keaton Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler at the end of the film. In this moment of division something everyone can agree on Ariana Grande looks beautiful in white DeGenerestweeted following Grandes performance. The post All of the film-inspired fashion from Ariana Grandes thank u next music video from Legally Blonde to Bring It On appeared first on Viral Hug. Viral Hug November 22 2018 at 08:23PM
Dolce & Gabbana: Celebrities pledge to boycott designer amid racism backlash A variety of celebrities have vowed to boycott Dolce & Gabbana following the racism controversy caused by the designers latest campaign. In videos posted on the luxury fashion houses Instagram account earlier this week the DG Loves China campaign featured an Asian model attempting to eat Italian food with chopsticks. Many condemned the designer following the release of the video clips describing the campaign as offensive and pandering to false stereotypes. Watch more It attempts to target China but instead mocks them with a parodied vision of what modern China is not a gag for amusement wrote fashion Instagram account Diet Prada in a caption accompanying a video clip from the campaign. After the video clips were removed from the Dolce& Gabbanasocial media accounts Diet Pradathen shared screenshots from an alleged conversation between Stefano Gabbana and Instagram userMichaelaPhuong Thanh Tranova in which the designerappeared to make derogatory comments about Chinese people and Chinese culture. While Gabbanahas claimed that his Instagram account was hacked and that the messages werent sent by him a number of celebrities have pledged to boycott Dolce& Gabbana over the controversial campaign and comments. As I have voiced time and time again publicly and privately western brands seeking to enter and expand in China should be aware of Chinese cultural sensibilities wrote Angelica Cheung editor in chief of Vogue China according to WWD. Instead of dictating everything from head office they would gain a lot from listening to the opinions and insights of their Chinese teams. According to the South China Morning Post actor and singer Chen Kunarrived in Shanghai on Wednesday morning in order to attend the Italian fashion houses The Great Show catwalk which was due to take place that evening. However he later stated that he would no longer be attending the show. Watch more Actor Dilraba Dilmurat who was made an ambassador for Dolce& Gabbana in February also revealed that she would not be attending the event. I am proud of the best possible motherland. The motherland is above everything else! she wrote on social media platform Weibo. Other celebrities to voice their opposition to the campaign include actors Zhang Ziyiand Li Bingbing. Furthermore model agency DongfangBinli stated that 24 of its models had banded together in order to pull out of the Dolce& Gabbana show. Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Following the backlash that it received Dolce& Gabbanalater revealed that The Great Show catwalk that had been scheduled to take place had been cancelled. Our dream was to bring to Shanghai a tribute event dedicated to China which tells our history and vision the company wrote in a statement. It was not simply a fashion show but something that we created especially with love and passion for China and all the people around the world who loves Dolce& Gabbana. The post Dolce & Gabbana: Celebrities pledge to boycott designer amid racism backlash appeared first on Viral Hug. Viral Hug November 22 2018 at 03:47PM
The MMA Fighter With The Most Unfortunate Name In The History Of Names Brown Pinas is already a mixed martial arts legend for a unique reason. When he made his debut at ONE Fighting Championship last July he instantly became a fan-favourite because of his unusual moniker. Now on just his second appearance in the Singapore-based promotion the Dutch fighter is quickly becoming the next internet star as The post The MMA Fighter With The Most Unfortunate Name In The History Of Names appeared first on Viral Hug. Viral Hug November 22 2018 at 04:28AMThe MMA Fighter With
Glamour magazine halts US monthly print edition after almost 80 years Glamouris ending its US print edition to focus on its digital operation. CondéNast the magazines publisher announced the move onTuesday as reported by TheNew York Times. The publications new editor-in-chief Samantha Barry a seasoned digital journalist who had never worked at a print magazine before taking over as the head of Glamour said the pivot was her plan because it makes sense. Read more Its where the audiences are and its where our growth is. That monthly schedule for a Glamour audiencedoesnt make sense anymore she added. Glamourhas retained a stable number of paying subscribers over the past three years according to The New York Times with 2.2 million readers paying for its print issue. ButCondéNasthad seemingly started to veer away from the format last year when it announcedGlamourwould be publishing 11 issues a year instead of 12. Barry was appointed as editor-in-chief in January this year apparently confirming a change of strategy on the publishers part. Glamours website will remain free for the time being. The magazine could still release occasional print issues focusing on specific topics or events such as itsannual Women of the Year awards. left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. 1/40 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen It is a fact universally acknowledged that every list of great books must include Pride and Prejudice. Dont be fooled by the bonnets and balls: beneath the sugary surface is a tart exposé of the marriage market in Georgian England. For every lucky Elizabeth who tames the haughty handsome Mr. Darcy and learns to know herself in the process theres a Charlotte resigned to life with a driveling buffoon for want of a pretty face. 2/40 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 Sue Townsend Read this one when youre decrepit enough and chances are youll die laughing. No-one has lampooned the self-absorption delusions of grandeur and sexual frustration of adolescence as brilliantly as Susan Townsend and no one ever will. Beyond the majestically majestic poetry and the pimples theres also a sharp satire of Thatcherist Britain. 3/40 Catch 22 Joseph Heller Its not often an idiom coined in a novel becomes a catch-phrase but Joseph Heller managed it with his madcap savage and hilarious tour de force. War is the ultimate dead-end for logic and this novel explores all its absurdities as we follow US bombardier pilot Captain John Yossarian. While Heller drew on his own experience as a WWII pilot it was the McCarthyism of the fifties that fueled the books glorious rage. 4/40 Tess of the dUrbervilles Thomas Hardy A good 125 years before #metoo Thomas Hardy skewered the sexual hypocrisy of the Victorian age in this melodramatic but immensely moving novel. Tess is a naïve girl from a poor family who is raped by a wealthy land-owner. After the death of her baby she tries to build a new life but the shame of her past casts a long shadow. Read this if you want to understand the rotten culture at the root of victim-blaming. 5/40 Things fall apart Chinua Achebe A classic exposé of colonialism Achebes novel explores what happens to a Nigerian village when European missionaries arrive. The main character warrior-like Okonkwo embodies the traditional values that are ultimately doomed. By the time Achebe was born in 1930 missionaries had been settled in his village for decades. He wrote in English and took the title of his novel from a Yeats poem but wove Igbo proverbs throughout this lyrical work. 6/40 1984 George Orwell The ultimate piece of dystopian fiction 1984 was so prescient that its become a cliché. But forget TVs Big Brother or the trite travesty of Room 101: the original has lost none of its furious force. Orwell was interested in the mechanics of totalitarianism imagining a society that took the paranoid surveillance of the Soviets to chilling conclusions. Our hero Winston tries to resist a grey world where a screen watches your every move but bravery is ultimately futile when the state worms its way inside your mind. 7/40 To kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A timeless plea for justice in the setting of Americas racist South during the depression years Lees novel caused a sensation. Her device was simple but incendiary: look at the world through the eyes of a six-year-old in this case Jean Louise Finch whose father is a lawyer defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Lee hoped for nothing but a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers: she won the Pulitzer and a place on the curriculum. 8/40 Great Expectations Charles Dickens Dickens was the social conscience of the Victorian age but dont let that put you off. Great Expectations is the roiling tale of the orphaned Pip the lovely Estella and the thwarted Miss Havisham. First written in serial form you barely have time to recover from one cliffhanger before the next one beckons all told in Dickens luxuriant humorous heartfelt prose. 9/40 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize with her debut novel a powerful intergenerational tale of love that crosses caste lines in southern India and the appalling consequences for those who break the taboos dictating who should be loved and how. And how much. Sex death religion the ambivalent pull of motherhood: its all there in this beautiful and haunting book. 10/40 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel In an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism Mantel inhabits a fictionalised version of Thomas Cromwell a working-class boy who rose through his own fierce intelligence to be a key player in the treacherous world of Tudor politics. Historical fiction so immersive you can smell the fear and ambition. 11/40 The Code of the Woosters PG Wodehouse If you havent read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whisky and ideally a rubber duck for company you havent lived. Wallow in this sublimely silly tale of the ultimate comic double act: bumbling aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his omniscient butler Jeeves. A sheer joy to read that also manages to satirise British fascist leader Oswald Mosley as a querulous grump in black shorts. 12/40 Frankenstein Mary Shelley Shelley was just 18 when she wrote Frankenstein as part of a challenge with her future husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron to concoct the best horror story. Put down the green face paint: Frankensteins monster is a complex creation who yearns for sympathy and companionship. Some 200 years after it was first published the gothic tale feels more relevant than ever as genetic science pushes the boundaries of what it means to create life. 13/40 Lord of the Flies William Golding Anyone who has ever suspected that children are primitive little beasties will nod sagely as they read Goldings classic. His theory is this: maroon a bunch of schoolboys on an island and watch how quickly the trappings of decent behaviour fall away. Never has a broken pair of spectacles seemed so sinister or civilisation so fragile. 14/40 Midnights Children Salman Rushdie The protagonist of Rushdies most celebrated novel is born at the exact moment India gains independence. Hes also born with superpowers and hes not the only one. In an audacious and poetic piece of magical realism Rushdie tells the story of Indias blood-soaked resurgence via a swathe of children born at midnight with uncanny abilities. 15/40 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte You will need a cold dead heart not to be moved by one of literatures steeliest heroines. From the institutional cruelty of her boarding school the small plain Jane Eyre becomes a governess who demands a right to think and feel. Not many love stories take in a mad woman in the attic and a spot of therapeutic disfigurement but this one somehow carries it off with mythic aplomb 16/40 Middlemarch George Eliot This is a richly satisfying slow burn of a novel that follows the lives and loves of the inhabitants of a small town in England through the years 182932. The acerbic wit and timeless truth of its observations mark this out as a work of genius; but at the time the author Mary Anne Evans had to turn to a male pen name to be taken seriously. 17/40 Secret History Donna Tartt Stick another log on the fire and curl up with this dark peculiar and quite brilliant literary murder tale. A group of classics students become entranced by Greek mythology and then take it up a level. Remember kids: never try your own delirious Dionysian ritual at home. 18/40 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A subtle and engrossing look at racial identity through the story of a charismatic young Nigerian woman who leaves her comfortable Lagos home for a world of struggles in the United States. Capturing both the hard-scrabble life of US immigrants and the brash divisions of a rising Nigeria Adichie crosses continents with all her usual depth of feeling and lightness of touch. 19/40 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons An absolute unadulterated comic joy of a novel. Stella Gibbons neatly pokes fun at sentimental navel-gazing with her zesty heroine Flora who is more interested in basic hygiene than histrionics. In other words if youve seen something nasty in the woodshed just shut the door. 20/40 Beloved Toni Morrison Dedicated to the Sixty Million and more Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the slave trade this is a cultural milestone and a Pulitzer-winning tour de force. Morrison was inspired by the real-life story of an enslaved woman who killed her own daughter rather than see her return to slavery. In her plot the murdered child returns to haunt a black community suggesting the inescapable taint of Americas history. 21/40 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh bottles the intoxicating vapour of a vanished era in this novel about middle-class Charles Ryder who meets upper-class Sebastian Flyte at Oxford University in the 1920s. Scrap the wartime prologue and Charless entire relationship with Sebastians sister Julia (Dear Evelyn thank you for your latest manuscript a few suggested cuts) and youre looking at one of the most affecting love affairs in the English language. 22/40 Dune Frank Herbert You can almost feel your mouth dry with thirst as you enter the world of Frank Herberts Dune and encounter the desert planet of Arrakis with its giant sandworms and mind-altering spice. Its the setting for an epic saga of warring feudal houses but its as much eco-parable as thrilling adventure story. Rarely has a fictional world been so completely realised. 23/40 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Will there ever be a novel that burns with more passionate intensity than Wuthering Heights? The forces that bring together its fierce heroine Catherine Earnshaw and cruel hero Heathcliff are violent and untameable yet rooted in a childhood devotion to one another when Heathcliff obeyed Cathys every command. Its impossible to imagine this novel ever provoking quiet slumbers; Emily Brontes vision of nature blazes with poetry. 24/40 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald The savage reviews that greeted F Scott Fitzgeralds third novel no more than a glorified anecdote; for the season only failed to recognise something truly great; a near-perfect distillation of the hope ambition cynicism and desire at the heart of the American Dream. Other novels capture the allure of the invented self from Stendhals The Red and the Black to Thomas Manns Confessions of Felix Krull but Fitzgeralds enigmatic Jay Gatsby casts a shadow that reaches to Mad Mens Don Draper and beyond. 25/40 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess From the moment we meet Alex and his three droogs in the Korova milkbar drinking moloko with vellocet or synthemesc and wondering whether to chat up the devotchkas at the counter or tolchock some old veck in an alley its clear that normal novelistic conventions do not apply. Anthony Burgesss slim volume about a violent near-future where aversion therapy is used on feral youth who speak Nadsat and commit rape and murder is a dystopian masterpiece. 26/40 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Banned from entering the UK in its year of publication 1955 Vladimir Nabokovs astonishingly skilful and enduringly controversial work of fiction introduces us to literary professor and self-confessed hebephile Humbert Humbert the perhaps unreliable narrator of the novel. He marries widow Charlotte Haze only to get access to her daughter 12-year-old Dolores nicknamed Lo by her mother or as Humbert calls her Lolita light of my life fire of my loins. My sin my soul. Cloaking his abuse in the allusive language of idealised love does not lessen Humberts crimes but allows Nabokov to skewer him where he hides. 27/40 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick Here be Roy Baty Rick Deckard and Rachael Rosen the novel that inspired Blade Runner is stranger even than the film it became. Back in an age before artificial intelligence could teach itself to play chess in a few hours better than any grandmaster that ever lived Philip K Dick was using the concept of android life to explore what it meant to be human and what it is to be left behind on a compromised planet. That he could do it in 250 pages that set the mind spinning and engage the emotions with every page-turn make this a rare science-fiction indeed. 28/40 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Inspired by Conrads own experiences of captaining a trading steamer up the Congo River Heart of Darkness is part adventure part psychological voyage into the unknown as the narrator Marlow relays the story of his journey into the jungle to meet the mysterious ivory trader Mr Kurtz. Although debate continues to rage about whether the novel and its attitude to Africa and colonialism is racist its deeply involving and demands to be read. 29/40 Dracula Bram Stoker Whatever passed between Irish theatre manager Bram Stoker and the Hungarian traveller and writer Ármin Vámbéry when they met in London and talked of the Carpathian Mountains it incubated in the Gothic imagination of Stoker into a work that has had an incalculable influence on Western culture. Its not hard to read the Count as a shadowy sexual figure surprising straitlaced Victorian England in their beds but in Stokers hands hes also bloody creepy. 30/40 The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger It only takes one sentence written in the first person for Salingers Holden Caulfield to announce himself in all his teenage nihilism sneering at you for wanting to know his biographical details and all that David Copperfield kind of crap. The Catcher in the Rye is the quintessential novel of the adolescent experience captured in deathless prose. 31/40 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Dashiel Hammett may have been harder boiled his plots more intricate but wow does Raymond Chandler have style. The push and pull at the start of The Big Sleep between private detective Philip Marlowe in his powder-blue suit and dark blue shirt and Miss Carmen Sternwood with her little sharp predatory teeth and lashes that she lowers and raises like a theatre curtain sets the tone for a story of bad girls and bad men. 32/40 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray All the teeming life of 19th century London is here in Thackerays masterpiece right down to the curry houses frequented by Jos Sedley who has gained a taste for the hot stuff as an officer in the East India Trading Company. But it is Becky Sharp one of literatures great characters who gives this novel its enduring fascination. As a woman on the make Becky is the perfect blend of wit cunning and cold-hearted ruthlessness. Try as film and TV might to humanise and make excuses for her Becky needs victims to thrive! And shes all the more compelling for that. 33/40 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath The only novel written by the poet Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical account of a descent into depression that the books narrator Esther Greenwood describes as like being trapped under a bell jar used to create a vacuum in scientific experiments struggling to breathe. Almost every word is arresting and the way that Plath captures the vivid life happening around Esther news events magazine parties accentuates the deadening illness that drives her towards suicidal feelings. Plath herself would commit suicide one month after the novels publication in 1963. 34/40 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Harry Potter may be more popular but Willy Wonka is altogether weirder. From the overwhelming poverty experienced by Charlie Bucket and his family to the spoilt greedy brattish children who join Charlie on his trip to Willy Wonkas phantasmagorical sweet factory there is nothing artificially sweetened in Roald Dahls startling work of fantasy. 35/40 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Andrew Daviess recent TV adaptation of War and Peace reminded those of us who cant quite face returning to the novels monstrous demands just how brilliantly Tolstoy delineates affairs of the heart even if the war passages will always be a struggle. In Anna Karenina enormous too! the great Russian novelist captures the erotic charge between the married Anna and the bachelor Vronsky then drags his heroine through societys scorn as their affair takes shape without ever suggesting we move from her side. 36/40 Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The most deliciously wicked experience in literature this epistolary novel introduces us to the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont who play cruel games of sexual conquest on their unwitting victims. The Marquises justification for her behaviour I who was born to revenge my sex and master yours will strike a chord in the #metoo era but emotions even love intrude to the point where Lacloss amorality becomes untenable. Sexy but very very bad. 37/40 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez The energy and enchantment of Garcia Marquezs story of seven generations of the Buendia family in a small town in Colombia continue to enthrall half a century on. Hauntings and premonitions allied to a journalistic eye for detail and a poetic sensibility make Marquezs magical realism unique. 38/40 The Trial Frank Kafka Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K So begins Kafkas nightmarish tale of a man trapped in an unfathomable bureaucratic process after being arrested by two agents from an unidentified office for a crime theyre not allowed to tell him about. Foreshadowing the antisemitism of Nazi-occupied Europe as well as the methods of the Stasi KGB and StB its an unsettling at times bewildering tale with chilling resonance. 39/40 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier The second Mrs de Winter is the narrator of Du Mauriers marvellously gothic tale about a young woman who replaces the deceased Rebecca as wife to the wealthy Maxim de Winter and mistress of the Manderley estate. There she meets the housekeeper Mrs Danvers formerly devoted to Rebecca who proceeds to torment her. As atmospheric psychological horror it just gets darker and darker. 40/40 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Published posthumously in 1958 Tomasi di Lampedusas novel is set in 19th century Sicily where revolution is in the air. The imposing Prince Don Fabrizio presides over a town close to Palermo during the last days of an old world in which class stratifications are stable and understood. Garibaldis forces have taken the island and a new world will follow. Its a deep and poetic meditation on political change and the characters that it produces. 1/40 Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen It is a fact universally acknowledged that every list of great books must include Pride and Prejudice. Dont be fooled by the bonnets and balls: beneath the sugary surface is a tart exposé of the marriage market in Georgian England. For every lucky Elizabeth who tames the haughty handsome Mr. Darcy and learns to know herself in the process theres a Charlotte resigned to life with a driveling buffoon for want of a pretty face. 2/40 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 Sue Townsend Read this one when youre decrepit enough and chances are youll die laughing. No-one has lampooned the self-absorption delusions of grandeur and sexual frustration of adolescence as brilliantly as Susan Townsend and no one ever will. Beyond the majestically majestic poetry and the pimples theres also a sharp satire of Thatcherist Britain. 3/40 Catch 22 Joseph Heller Its not often an idiom coined in a novel becomes a catch-phrase but Joseph Heller managed it with his madcap savage and hilarious tour de force. War is the ultimate dead-end for logic and this novel explores all its absurdities as we follow US bombardier pilot Captain John Yossarian. While Heller drew on his own experience as a WWII pilot it was the McCarthyism of the fifties that fueled the books glorious rage. 4/40 Tess of the dUrbervilles Thomas Hardy A good 125 years before #metoo Thomas Hardy skewered the sexual hypocrisy of the Victorian age in this melodramatic but immensely moving novel. Tess is a naïve girl from a poor family who is raped by a wealthy land-owner. After the death of her baby she tries to build a new life but the shame of her past casts a long shadow. Read this if you want to understand the rotten culture at the root of victim-blaming. 5/40 Things fall apart Chinua Achebe A classic exposé of colonialism Achebes novel explores what happens to a Nigerian village when European missionaries arrive. The main character warrior-like Okonkwo embodies the traditional values that are ultimately doomed. By the time Achebe was born in 1930 missionaries had been settled in his village for decades. He wrote in English and took the title of his novel from a Yeats poem but wove Igbo proverbs throughout this lyrical work. 6/40 1984 George Orwell The ultimate piece of dystopian fiction 1984 was so prescient that its become a cliché. But forget TVs Big Brother or the trite travesty of Room 101: the original has lost none of its furious force. Orwell was interested in the mechanics of totalitarianism imagining a society that took the paranoid surveillance of the Soviets to chilling conclusions. Our hero Winston tries to resist a grey world where a screen watches your every move but bravery is ultimately futile when the state worms its way inside your mind. 7/40 To kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee A timeless plea for justice in the setting of Americas racist South during the depression years Lees novel caused a sensation. Her device was simple but incendiary: look at the world through the eyes of a six-year-old in this case Jean Louise Finch whose father is a lawyer defending a black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Lee hoped for nothing but a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers: she won the Pulitzer and a place on the curriculum. 8/40 Great Expectations Charles Dickens Dickens was the social conscience of the Victorian age but dont let that put you off. Great Expectations is the roiling tale of the orphaned Pip the lovely Estella and the thwarted Miss Havisham. First written in serial form you barely have time to recover from one cliffhanger before the next one beckons all told in Dickens luxuriant humorous heartfelt prose. 9/40 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize with her debut novel a powerful intergenerational tale of love that crosses caste lines in southern India and the appalling consequences for those who break the taboos dictating who should be loved and how. And how much. Sex death religion the ambivalent pull of motherhood: its all there in this beautiful and haunting book. 10/40 Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel In an astonishing act of literary ventriloquism Mantel inhabits a fictionalised version of Thomas Cromwell a working-class boy who rose through his own fierce intelligence to be a key player in the treacherous world of Tudor politics. Historical fiction so immersive you can smell the fear and ambition. 11/40 The Code of the Woosters PG Wodehouse If you havent read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whisky and ideally a rubber duck for company you havent lived. Wallow in this sublimely silly tale of the ultimate comic double act: bumbling aristocrat Bertie Wooster and his omniscient butler Jeeves. A sheer joy to read that also manages to satirise British fascist leader Oswald Mosley as a querulous grump in black shorts. 12/40 Frankenstein Mary Shelley Shelley was just 18 when she wrote Frankenstein as part of a challenge with her future husband Percy Shelley and Lord Byron to concoct the best horror story. Put down the green face paint: Frankensteins monster is a complex creation who yearns for sympathy and companionship. Some 200 years after it was first published the gothic tale feels more relevant than ever as genetic science pushes the boundaries of what it means to create life. 13/40 Lord of the Flies William Golding Anyone who has ever suspected that children are primitive little beasties will nod sagely as they read Goldings classic. His theory is this: maroon a bunch of schoolboys on an island and watch how quickly the trappings of decent behaviour fall away. Never has a broken pair of spectacles seemed so sinister or civilisation so fragile. 14/40 Midnights Children Salman Rushdie The protagonist of Rushdies most celebrated novel is born at the exact moment India gains independence. Hes also born with superpowers and hes not the only one. In an audacious and poetic piece of magical realism Rushdie tells the story of Indias blood-soaked resurgence via a swathe of children born at midnight with uncanny abilities. 15/40 Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte You will need a cold dead heart not to be moved by one of literatures steeliest heroines. From the institutional cruelty of her boarding school the small plain Jane Eyre becomes a governess who demands a right to think and feel. Not many love stories take in a mad woman in the attic and a spot of therapeutic disfigurement but this one somehow carries it off with mythic aplomb 16/40 Middlemarch George Eliot This is a richly satisfying slow burn of a novel that follows the lives and loves of the inhabitants of a small town in England through the years 182932. The acerbic wit and timeless truth of its observations mark this out as a work of genius; but at the time the author Mary Anne Evans had to turn to a male pen name to be taken seriously. 17/40 Secret History Donna Tartt Stick another log on the fire and curl up with this dark peculiar and quite brilliant literary murder tale. A group of classics students become entranced by Greek mythology and then take it up a level. Remember kids: never try your own delirious Dionysian ritual at home. 18/40 Americanah Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A subtle and engrossing look at racial identity through the story of a charismatic young Nigerian woman who leaves her comfortable Lagos home for a world of struggles in the United States. Capturing both the hard-scrabble life of US immigrants and the brash divisions of a rising Nigeria Adichie crosses continents with all her usual depth of feeling and lightness of touch. 19/40 Cold Comfort Farm Stella Gibbons An absolute unadulterated comic joy of a novel. Stella Gibbons neatly pokes fun at sentimental navel-gazing with her zesty heroine Flora who is more interested in basic hygiene than histrionics. In other words if youve seen something nasty in the woodshed just shut the door. 20/40 Beloved Toni Morrison Dedicated to the Sixty Million and more Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the slave trade this is a cultural milestone and a Pulitzer-winning tour de force. Morrison was inspired by the real-life story of an enslaved woman who killed her own daughter rather than see her return to slavery. In her plot the murdered child returns to haunt a black community suggesting the inescapable taint of Americas history. 21/40 Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh bottles the intoxicating vapour of a vanished era in this novel about middle-class Charles Ryder who meets upper-class Sebastian Flyte at Oxford University in the 1920s. Scrap the wartime prologue and Charless entire relationship with Sebastians sister Julia (Dear Evelyn thank you for your latest manuscript a few suggested cuts) and youre looking at one of the most affecting love affairs in the English language. 22/40 Dune Frank Herbert You can almost feel your mouth dry with thirst as you enter the world of Frank Herberts Dune and encounter the desert planet of Arrakis with its giant sandworms and mind-altering spice. Its the setting for an epic saga of warring feudal houses but its as much eco-parable as thrilling adventure story. Rarely has a fictional world been so completely realised. 23/40 Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Will there ever be a novel that burns with more passionate intensity than Wuthering Heights? The forces that bring together its fierce heroine Catherine Earnshaw and cruel hero Heathcliff are violent and untameable yet rooted in a childhood devotion to one another when Heathcliff obeyed Cathys every command. Its impossible to imagine this novel ever provoking quiet slumbers; Emily Brontes vision of nature blazes with poetry. 24/40 The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald The savage reviews that greeted F Scott Fitzgeralds third novel no more than a glorified anecdote; for the season only failed to recognise something truly great; a near-perfect distillation of the hope ambition cynicism and desire at the heart of the American Dream. Other novels capture the allure of the invented self from Stendhals The Red and the Black to Thomas Manns Confessions of Felix Krull but Fitzgeralds enigmatic Jay Gatsby casts a shadow that reaches to Mad Mens Don Draper and beyond. 25/40 A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess From the moment we meet Alex and his three droogs in the Korova milkbar drinking moloko with vellocet or synthemesc and wondering whether to chat up the devotchkas at the counter or tolchock some old veck in an alley its clear that normal novelistic conventions do not apply. Anthony Burgesss slim volume about a violent near-future where aversion therapy is used on feral youth who speak Nadsat and commit rape and murder is a dystopian masterpiece. 26/40 Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Banned from entering the UK in its year of publication 1955 Vladimir Nabokovs astonishingly skilful and enduringly controversial work of fiction introduces us to literary professor and self-confessed hebephile Humbert Humbert the perhaps unreliable narrator of the novel. He marries widow Charlotte Haze only to get access to her daughter 12-year-old Dolores nicknamed Lo by her mother or as Humbert calls her Lolita light of my life fire of my loins. My sin my soul. Cloaking his abuse in the allusive language of idealised love does not lessen Humberts crimes but allows Nabokov to skewer him where he hides. 27/40 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick Here be Roy Baty Rick Deckard and Rachael Rosen the novel that inspired Blade Runner is stranger even than the film it became. Back in an age before artificial intelligence could teach itself to play chess in a few hours better than any grandmaster that ever lived Philip K Dick was using the concept of android life to explore what it meant to be human and what it is to be left behind on a compromised planet. That he could do it in 250 pages that set the mind spinning and engage the emotions with every page-turn make this a rare science-fiction indeed. 28/40 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Inspired by Conrads own experiences of captaining a trading steamer up the Congo River Heart of Darkness is part adventure part psychological voyage into the unknown as the narrator Marlow relays the story of his journey into the jungle to meet the mysterious ivory trader Mr Kurtz. Although debate continues to rage about whether the novel and its attitude to Africa and colonialism is racist its deeply involving and demands to be read. 29/40 Dracula Bram Stoker Whatever passed between Irish theatre manager Bram Stoker and the Hungarian traveller and writer Ármin Vámbéry when they met in London and talked of the Carpathian Mountains it incubated in the Gothic imagination of Stoker into a work that has had an incalculable influence on Western culture. Its not hard to read the Count as a shadowy sexual figure surprising straitlaced Victorian England in their beds but in Stokers hands hes also bloody creepy. 30/40 The Catcher in the Rye J D Salinger It only takes one sentence written in the first person for Salingers Holden Caulfield to announce himself in all his teenage nihilism sneering at you for wanting to know his biographical details and all that David Copperfield kind of crap. The Catcher in the Rye is the quintessential novel of the adolescent experience captured in deathless prose. 31/40 The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler Dashiel Hammett may have been harder boiled his plots more intricate but wow does Raymond Chandler have style. The push and pull at the start of The Big Sleep between private detective Philip Marlowe in his powder-blue suit and dark blue shirt and Miss Carmen Sternwood with her little sharp predatory teeth and lashes that she lowers and raises like a theatre curtain sets the tone for a story of bad girls and bad men. 32/40 Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray All the teeming life of 19th century London is here in Thackerays masterpiece right down to the curry houses frequented by Jos Sedley who has gained a taste for the hot stuff as an officer in the East India Trading Company. But it is Becky Sharp one of literatures great characters who gives this novel its enduring fascination. As a woman on the make Becky is the perfect blend of wit cunning and cold-hearted ruthlessness. Try as film and TV might to humanise and make excuses for her Becky needs victims to thrive! And shes all the more compelling for that. 33/40 The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath The only novel written by the poet Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical account of a descent into depression that the books narrator Esther Greenwood describes as like being trapped under a bell jar used to create a vacuum in scientific experiments struggling to breathe. Almost every word is arresting and the way that Plath captures the vivid life happening around Esther news events magazine parties accentuates the deadening illness that drives her towards suicidal feelings. Plath herself would commit suicide one month after the novels publication in 1963. 34/40 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Harry Potter may be more popular but Willy Wonka is altogether weirder. From the overwhelming poverty experienced by Charlie Bucket and his family to the spoilt greedy brattish children who join Charlie on his trip to Willy Wonkas phantasmagorical sweet factory there is nothing artificially sweetened in Roald Dahls startling work of fantasy. 35/40 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Andrew Daviess recent TV adaptation of War and Peace reminded those of us who cant quite face returning to the novels monstrous demands just how brilliantly Tolstoy delineates affairs of the heart even if the war passages will always be a struggle. In Anna Karenina enormous too! the great Russian novelist captures the erotic charge between the married Anna and the bachelor Vronsky then drags his heroine through societys scorn as their affair takes shape without ever suggesting we move from her side. 36/40 Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The most deliciously wicked experience in literature this epistolary novel introduces us to the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont who play cruel games of sexual conquest on their unwitting victims. The Marquises justification for her behaviour I who was born to revenge my sex and master yours will strike a chord in the #metoo era but emotions even love intrude to the point where Lacloss amorality becomes untenable. Sexy but very very bad. 37/40 100 Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez The energy and enchantment of Garcia Marquezs story of seven generations of the Buendia family in a small town in Colombia continue to enthrall half a century on. Hauntings and premonitions allied to a journalistic eye for detail and a poetic sensibility make Marquezs magical realism unique. 38/40 The Trial Frank Kafka Someone must have been telling lies about Josef K So begins Kafkas nightmarish tale of a man trapped in an unfathomable bureaucratic process after being arrested by two agents from an unidentified office for a crime theyre not allowed to tell him about. Foreshadowing the antisemitism of Nazi-occupied Europe as well as the methods of the Stasi KGB and StB its an unsettling at times bewildering tale with chilling resonance. 39/40 Rebecca Daphne du Maurier The second Mrs de Winter is the narrator of Du Mauriers marvellously gothic tale about a young woman who replaces the deceased Rebecca as wife to the wealthy Maxim de Winter and mistress of the Manderley estate. There she meets the housekeeper Mrs Danvers formerly devoted to Rebecca who proceeds to torment her. As atmospheric psychological horror it just gets darker and darker. 40/40 The Leopard Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Published posthumously in 1958 Tomasi di Lampedusas novel is set in 19th century Sicily where revolution is in the air. The imposing Prince Don Fabrizio presides over a town close to Palermo during the last days of an old world in which class stratifications are stable and understood. Garibaldis forces have taken the island and a new world will follow. Its a deep and poetic meditation on political change and the characters that it produces. Glamourpublished its first issue in the US in 1939. For the first few years of its run it was calledGlamour of Hollywood until the name was shortened to its current form. Barry a native of Cork Ireland addressed the move to digital on Twitter saying shes excited for whats ahead. Our storytelling at Glamour will be digital social and video-led with special print moments to mark big issues and events she wrote. The last regular print issue ofGlamour its January edition is set to be released on 27 November. Its unclear how if at all international issues of the magazine will be affected. Glamour UKwent digital-first in October last year cutting back its print editions to two a year. Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds The post Glamour magazine halts US monthly print edition after almost 80 years appeared first on Viral Hug. Viral Hug November 20 2018 at 10:59PMGlamour magazine hal
Cherry makes a comeback as the must-have scent of the season Every so often a scent comes along thats so rousing it takes the beauty world by storm. One fruity scent that has been practically non-existent on the scene for the last 10 years is now making a huge comeback: thecherry. The term cherry has been part of the beauty dictionary since the 1920s and has been used to describe a variety of rouge-hued products from lipsticks to nail polishes. Read more But the ingredient has come a long way since then. Now its being used for more than just its association with rouge hues. After almost a decade of being discontinued natural haircare brand Aveda foresaw the fruits born-again popularity and decided to relaunch its signature Cherry Almond shampoo and conditioner. Designed with a brand new formula the products are still saturated with the smell of sweet Bakewell tarts but with the addition of a host of beneficial ingredients including cherry blossom and sweet almond oil. Made with 98 per cent naturally-derived ingredients it made without silicones parabens mineral oils or phthalates while the scent is completely natural and crafted with 38 flower and plant essences instead of synthetic additives. If that isnt enough to convince you to lather your hair in the stuff then perhaps the fact that the line is vegan cruelty-free and manufactured entirely using wind power and renewable energy will be. For those who prefer to wear their scents on their sleeve the launch of Tom Fords latest fragrance will be of particular interest. A unisex scent Lost Cherry centres on the smell of black cherries and is accented with voluptuous fruit and breathtaking florals like Turkish rose and jasmine sambac for the ultimate blend of sweet and tart. Peru balsam and tonka are also juxtaposed with sandalwood vetiver and cedar giving freshness to the dry down. The makeup sector has caught on to the beauty worlds obsession with cherries too. Urban Decay Naked Cherry Palette 42 John Lewis Last month Urban Decay unveiled its Naked Cherry collection which includes everything from a cherry-scented version of its best-selling All Nighter Setting Spray to Glide-On Eye Pencils Vice Lipsticks and the hotly-anticipated Naked Cherry Eyeshadow Palette. Adorned with a row of metallic cherry hues the crimson compact has fast become a fan-favourite thanks to its serious staying power velvety texture and smouldering bendability. The post Cherry makes a comeback as the must-have scent of the season appeared first on Viral Hug. ift.tt/2FwWefz Fashion Cherry Comeback MustHave Scent Season

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