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conversations.value: Give me a description for a book titled House of the Dead about English, Elizabeth, Creative with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Mythology & Folk Tales.
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conversations.value: the author is a literary theorist, lover of fairy tales, and passionate storyteller who hopes to make a difference with her words by inviting readers to peel back the surface of the text and find a deeper meaning. To her, stories are the ultimate form of communication - the only one that can reach across the chasm of time itself and impact the future. In particular, mythology is a gateway to another world entirely, to the cultures, beliefs, minds, and hearts of a people long dead. Elizabeth has a master's degree in English and Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University, and teaches college English as an adjunct professor. She lives in Tennessee with her husband and their black cat, Baby.
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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book titled House of the Dead.
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conversations.value: House of the Dead (film): Two college students, Simon (Tyron Leitso) and Greg (Will Sanderson), take a boat to an island to attend a rave.\nThey meet up with three girls: Alicia (Ona Grauer), Karma (Enuka Okuma) and Cynthia (Sonya Salomaa).\nKarma has a crush on Simon, Simon has a crush on Alicia, and Cynthia is Greg\'s girlfriend.\nWhen the five arrive at the dock, they find that they are late and the boat that is supposed to take them to the island called "Isla Del Muerte" (Spanish for "Island of the Dead"), has already left.\nA man named Victor Kirk (Jürgen Prochnow) and his first mate Salish (Clint Howard) offer them a ride.\nAs they leave, a policewoman named Jordan Casper (Ellie Cornell) tries to stop them from leaving, knowing of Kirk\'s past as a smuggler, but fails.\nArriving at Isla Del Monte, they find the rave site messed up and deserted.\nAlicia, Karma and Simon leave the site to go find anybody around while Cynthia and Greg stay behind.\nAs Greg and Cynthia are about to make out in a tent, the former leaves to urinate.\nAlone in the tent, Cynthia is killed by a group of zombies.\nMeanwhile, Alicia, Karma and Simon find an old house and as they attempt to investigate the place, they discover Rudy (Jonathan Cherry), Liberty (Kira Clavell) and Hugh (Michael Eklund), who tell them that zombies attacked the rave, killing everyone.\nAlicia and Rudy used to date and Liberty was a dancer at the rave.\nThe six leave the house to fetch Greg and Cynthia.\nMeanwhile, the zombies kill Salish when he is alone in the forest.\nAlicia, Rudy, Karma, Simon, Liberty and Hugh return to the rave site and find Greg.\nA zombified Cynthia comes out from behind a tree and kills Hugh but is killed when Casper arrives and shoots her.\nThey form a plan to return to Kirk\'s boat and leave the island.\nWhen they return to the beach they find only zombies on Kirk\'s boat.\nCasper and Greg leave the group to go find help, but Greg is killed in the forest.\nKirk later takes the group to a spot in the forest where he has hidden a box full of guns and weaponry.\nOnce everyone is armed, they decide to head back to the house.\nThe front of the house is filled with zombies.\nLiberty and Casper are killed in the ensuing fight and Alicia, Rudy, Kirk, Karma and Simon manage to take shelter inside the house.\nWhen Kirk is alone, he hears Salish whistling outside of the house.\nHe goes outside and sees Salish as a zombie.\nKirk sacrifices himself by killing Salish with a stick of dynamite, but the explosion also blows up the entrance to the house.\nThe remaining four lock themselves in a lab in the house, but the zombies break in.\nKarma finds a hatch in the floor which she, Alicia and Rudy use to escape.\nSimon manages to sacrifice himself to kill the zombies by shooting a barrel of gunpowder, blowing up the house and the zombies.\nAlicia, Rudy and Karma find themselves in underground tunnels.\nThey make their way through the tunnels, but Karma is killed by zombies as she attempts to hold them off as Rudy and Alicia flee.\nAlicia and Rudy are aided by a man to get out of the tunnels.\nThe man is actually an evil undead named Castillo Sermano, a Spanish priest from the 15th century who was banished from Spain for his evil experiments which the Catholic Church forbade, one of which was the immortality serum, which he injected himself with before he created the first zombie.\nAlicia and Rudy escape the tunnels, blowing them up in the process.\nCastillo manages to survive the blast and Alicia gets into a sword fight with him.\nCastillo stabs her in the heart wherein Rudy manages to decapitate him.\nWhile he thinks that it has all ended, the still-alive headless body of Castillo begins to strangle Rudy.\nAlicia who is barely alive gets up and crushes the head under her foot which finally kills him.\nAlthough Alicia seemingly dies, she and Rudy are rescued by a team of agents.\nThe agents ask for Rudy\'s last name, to which he responds with "Curien".\nThe ending narration reveals that Rudy gave Alicia the immortality serum and that is why she is alive.\nThe two survivors return home.
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conversations.value: Give me the first four paragraphs for this book.
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conversations.value: House of the Dead
  Dostoevsky is also known to have influenced and been influenced by the philosopher Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov. Solovyov is noted as the inspiration for the character Alyosha Karamazov.
  In 1877, Dostoevsky gave the keynote eulogy at the funeral of his friend, the poet Nekrasov, to much controversy. On June 8, 1880, shortly before he died, he gave his famous Pushkin speech at the unveiling of the Pushkin monument in Moscow. From that event on, Dostoevsky was acclaimed all over Russia as one of her greatest writers and hailed as a prophet, almost a mystic.
  In his later years, Fyodor Dostoevsky lived for a long time at the resort of Staraya Russa in northwestern Russia, which was closer to St. Petersburg and less expensive than German resorts. He died on February 9 (January 28 O.S.), 1881 of a lung hemorrhage associated with emphysema and an epileptic seizure. He was interred in Tikhvin Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, St Petersburg, Russia. Forty thousand mourners attended his funeral. His tombstone reads "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." from John 12:24, which is also the epigraph of his final novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
  Dostoevsky's influence has been acclaimed by a wide variety of writers, including Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Charles Bukowski, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry Miller, Yukio Mishima, Cormac McCarthy, Gabriel García Márquez, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Orhan Pamuk and Joseph Heller. American novelist Ernest Hemingway cited Dostoevsky as a major influence on his work in his autobiographical novella A Moveable Feast.
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conversations.value: Though a writer of symbolic tales (and in this respect sometimes compared to Herman Melville), Dostoevsky displayed a nuanced understanding of human psychology in his major works. He created an opus of vitality and almost hypnotic power, characterized by feverishly dramatized scenes where his characters are, frequently in scandalous and explosive atmosphere, passionately engaged in Socratic dialogues à la Russe; the quest for God, the problem of Evil and suffering of the innocents haunt the majority of his novels.
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conversations.value: Give me the last five paragraphs.
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conversations.value: Though a writer of symbolic tales (and in this respect sometimes compared to Herman Melville), Dostoevsky displayed a nuanced understanding of human psychology in his major works. He created an opus of vitality and almost hypnotic power, characterized by feverishly dramatized scenes where his characters are, frequently in scandalous and explosive atmosphere, passionately engaged in Socratic dialogues à la Russe; the quest for God, the problem of Evil and suffering of the innocents haunt the majority of his novels.
  His characters fall into a few distinct categories: humble and self-effacing Christians (Prince Myshkin, Sonya Marmeladova, Alyosha Karamazov, Starets Zosima), self-destructive nihilists (Svidrigailov, Smerdyakov, Stavrogin, the underground man), cynical debauchees (Fyodor Karamazov), and rebellious intellectuals (Raskolnikov, Ivan Karamazov); also, his characters are driven by ideas rather than by ordinary biological or social imperatives. In comparison with Tolstoy, whose characters are realistic, the characters of Dostoevsky are usually more symbolic of the ideas they represent, thus Dostoevsky is often cited as one of the forerunners of Literary Symbolism in specific Russian Symbolism.
  Dostoevsky and the other giant of late 19th century Russian literature, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, never met in person, even though each praised, criticized and influenced each other (Dostoevsky remarked of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina that it was a "flawless work of art"; Henri Troyat reports that Tolstoy once remarked of Crime and Punishment that, "Once you read the first few chapters you know pretty much how the novel will end up"). There was, however, a meeting arranged, but there was a confusion about where the meeting place was and they never rescheduled. Tolstoy reportedly burst into tears when he learnt of Dostoevsky's death. A copy of The Brothers Karamazov was found on the nightstand next to Tolstoy's deathbed at the Astapovo railway station. Since their time, the two are considered by the critics and public as two of the greatest novelists produced by their homeland.
  Nietzsche referred to Dostoevsky as "the only psychologist from whom I have something to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal." He said that Notes from the Underground "cried truth from the blood." According to Mihajlo Mihajlov's "The great catalyzer: Nietzsche and Russian neo-Idealism", Nietzsche constantly refers to Dostoevsky in his notes and drafts through out the winter of 1886-1887. Nietzsche also wrote abstracts of several of Dostoevsky's works.
  Freud wrote an article entitled Dostoevsky and Parricide that asserts that the greatest works in world literature are all about parricide (though he is critical of Dostoevsky's work overall, the inclusion of The Brothers Karamazov in a set of the three greatest works of literature is remarkable).
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: Freud wrote an article entitled Dostoevsky and Parricide that asserts that the greatest works in world literature are all about parricide (though he is critical of Dostoevsky's work overall, the inclusion of The Brothers Karamazov in a set of the three greatest works of literature is remarkable).. Nietzsche also wrote abstracts of several of Dostoevsky's works." According to Mihajlo Mihajlov's "The great catalyzer: Nietzsche and Russian neo-Idealism", Nietzsche constantly refers to Dostoevsky in his notes and drafts through out the winter of 1886-1887." He said that Notes from the Underground "cried truth from the blood.
  Nietzsche referred to Dostoevsky as "the only psychologist from whom I have something to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life, happier even than the discovery of Stendhal. Since their time, the two are considered by the critics and public as two of the greatest novelists produced by their homeland. A copy of The Brothers Karamazov was found on the nightstand next to Tolstoy's deathbed at the Astapovo railway station. Tolstoy reportedly burst into tears when he learnt of Dostoevsky's death. There was, however, a meeting arranged, but there was a confusion about where the meeting place was and they never rescheduled.
  Dostoevsky and the other giant of late 19th century Russian literature, Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, never met in person, even though each praised, criticized and influenced each other (Dostoevsky remarked of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina that it was a "flawless work of art"; Henri Troyat reports that Tolstoy once remarked of Crime and Punishment that, "Once you read the first few chapters you know pretty much how the novel will end up"). In comparison with Tolstoy, whose characters are realistic, the characters of Dostoevsky are usually more symbolic of the ideas they represent, thus Dostoevsky is often cited as one of the forerunners of Literary Symbolism in specific Russian Symbolism.
  His characters fall into a few distinct categories: humble and self-effacing Christians (Prince Myshkin, Sonya Marmeladova, Alyosha Karamazov, Starets Zosima), self-destructive nihilists (Svidrigailov, Smerdyakov, Stavrogin, the underground man), cynical debauchees (Fyodor Karamazov), and rebellious intellectuals (Raskolnikov, Ivan Karamazov); also, his characters are driven by ideas rather than by ordinary biological or social imperatives. He created an opus of vitality and almost hypnotic power, characterized by feverishly dramatized scenes where his characters are, frequently in scandalous and explosive atmosphere, passionately engaged in Socratic dialogues à la Russe; the quest for God, the problem of Evil and suffering of the innocents haunt the majority of his novels.Though a writer of symbolic tales (and in this respect sometimes compared to Herman Melville), Dostoevsky displayed a nuanced understanding of human psychology in his major works