Prey by Michael Crichton?
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Stevo - there is a whole 'specialty' in the world of drama known as 'minimalist' theatre. Plays in this form are performed with limited action and little (and sometimes no) props. Obviously, in this type of production, the entire performance is carried by the words and body language of the actors.\n\nClearly, you're not going to recreate a world-class research lab with zero budget and limited props, and I suspect that your teacher is more anxious to see you demonstrate that you grasped the main themes of the novel - while allowing you to have fun with the idea that you can do the report in the form of a movie trailer.\n\nIf you have a test tube stand, a beaker or two, a few test tubes, and maybe a bunsen burner, you can certainly "suggest" a laboratory setting. The key would be to shoot the scene "tight", meaning that the camera is close in to the "set" and captures only a few square feet, rather than pulling back far enough for the viewer to realize you're shooting in your kitchen. A better option, if it's available to you, is to ask permission to shoot the lab scene in the science lab at school.\n\nMuch of Crichton's work is concerned with the threat of allowing great (and at the same time dangerous) science to get into the hands of flawed people. As the narrator points out on the first page "Things never turn out the way you think they will." In all of his books, something goes horribly wrong with a technology that's meant to provide for the public "good", and a hero must save humankind from the evils of good science gone bad. \n\nRemember - a movie trailer never gives away the twists and turns - an effective trailer simply suggests that the movie has them and that they're going to be doozies. I think the main theme you're going to want to get across is Crichton's message that every promising technology of the future has its dangers if the science is not controlled by moral and ethical people who are motivated by the common good.\n\nBest of luck to you in your project!
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By Robert Heinlein  \n\nOrphans of the sky
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Psyco thrillers huh? Before Lynch their was Hitchcock and Kubrick! Check them out. \nI don't know any other writers off the bat that have a body of work to match his style. \nI'd check out The Game \nStay\nMovies and Plays by David Mamot, you may dig him as well.
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Good but a bit outdated. \n\nWinning with People by J. Maxwell is good.  Making Rain by A. Sobel is good too.
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Yes I've read it. It was written in 1983 or something and contains much of what The Da Vince Code is all about. It centers around a mystery the writers found in a southern French town, and some documents claimed to be found by a Priest named Sauniere (Dan Brown even used similar names in his novels). It is fairly interesting, but written like a historical documentary, so it is not like the page-turner written by Dan Brown. I think Mr. Brown used much of the information of this book and others to make The Da Vince Code. The guys who wrote Holy Blood, Holy Grail even tried to sue him, but failed.
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Do you mean "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe?\n\nSee links below
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Probably. It sounds like a real page-turner. Check your libary.
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Check here:\n\nhttp://www.novedge.com/Book_Show.asp?ASIN=0071361057
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A couple on a walk witnesses a car crash, from which a man in a lab coat (or something else if that's too cliche) comes stumbling out holding a small box.  He gives it to the person and says, "Don't let them have it," then dies.  \n\nWhat's in the box?  An electronic device that's warm to the touch?  A vial of cloudy liquid?  An internet address and a password?  Who's after the item?  At this point it becomes science fiction if the item is extraplanetary or sufficiently futuristic, or a mystery novel if it's more mundane.  It's all where you want to take it.\n\nIf you want something novel length, remember to give the protagonists multiple chances to solve whatever mystery they're entrusted with.  If they solve the problem first try then you have no story.  It's too short and too linear.  Readers don't like that.\n\nGood luck.
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Nelson Demille has some good Bestsellers.  Plum Island and Lions Game are both good thriller/action type books with a little sarcastic humor.  The combo makes for good, quick and easy reading!
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:}\nHaven’t read it but it sounded like agreat title\nI tried to find it on Google and then Amazon   No luck.   Who was the author?
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Try James Patterson - his books are top of the line suspense! Also, Dean Coontz is good, although his books are sort of horror/suspense.  \n\nGood luck, and happy reading :)
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YES! I found it!\n\nCheck this out:\n\nhttp://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=100003624\n\nHave fun!
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Read Wilton Barnhardt's "Gospel".  In my opinion, it is of the same ilk (this isn't a new genre at all) but better, as I prefer his prose.\n\nI also think you could include new author Elizabeth Kostova, who just published a thriller in the same vein.\n\nThere have been many other authors who have written what I call "conspiracy novels" about the nature of Christ.\n\nThere are also some old school books like "The Talisman" by Sir Walter Scott, and "The Robe" by Lloyd Douglas.  The Talisman is really old school (almost 200 years old) and traces a coin that was won in the gambling at Christ's feet through the ages and its transport to Scotland with the heart of Robert the Bruce (in reality, the coin exists, in the bossom of our Clan Chief, Lockhart, in Ayrshire, Scotland).\n\nPoke around, there is lots of material including one novel about the a new set of dead sea scrolls that has Jesus's bones turn up in the tomb of Joseph...etc.\n\nAnd according to court accounts, you can read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", which Brown is accused of plagiarising (remember the flap about Harry Potter being plagiarised?
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SciFi ,  gimme 10 points, dude! (~~)
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i havent read it, but ive heard that it is really good. im going to either check it out from the library or buy it soon, and read it.
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I did that book at school too. very powerful book. harper lee is a great author. Favourite book? Red Dragon by thomas harris is good, as is the film. I love my horror books.