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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about I>Half, Life</I, Booker with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Half a Life'
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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Half A Life about Christopher's, Charlotte's, Web with the genre: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Books, Literature & Fiction.
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conversations.value: For as long as he can remember, writing has been one of Christopher's greatest passions. One of his earliest writing memories is creating a sequel to Charlotte's Web in third grade because he didn't like that Charlotte died. Since then ideas have been pouring out of him and at the age of 39 he is finally ready to start sharing them with the world. Christopher lives in Columbus OH with his partner Stacey, their dog, and three cats.
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conversations.value: Provide a description for a book titled Half a Life about Half, Los, Angeles with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Arts & Literature.
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conversations.value: In Half a Life , Ms. the author not only gives us some remarkably candid and affecting portraits of her own family, but she also conjures up the world of her youth: Los Angeles of the 1960's, a time when gang girls wore black vinyl miniskirts and hid razor blades in their teased hair, a time when kids could watch Watts burn on television and their own neighbors' houses burn in the hillside fires that routinely threatened the city. -- The New York Times Book Review, Michiko Kakutani
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book about I>Half, Life</I, Booker with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences.
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conversations.value: Half a Life (novel): Willie Somerset Chandran is the son of a Brahmin father and a Dalit mother.\nHis father gave him his middle name as a homage to the English writer Somerset Maugham who had visited the father in the temple where the father was living under a vow of silence.\nHaving come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.\nThere he leads a life as a different man with an interesting background 'oriental' and fakes the facts of his life.\nLater in London he writes a book of short stories and manages to publish it.\nWillie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet.\nThey fall in love and Willie follows her to her country (an unnamed Portuguese colony in Africa, presumably Mozambique).\nMeanwhile Willie's sister Sarojini marries a German and moves to Berlin.\nThe novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18 year stay in Africa.\nHaving discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background.\nHalf a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin.
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conversations.value: \nHis father gave him his middle name as a homage to the English writer Somerset Maugham who had visited the father in the temple where the father was living under a vow of silence.\nHaving come to despise his father for giving him a split identity, Willie leaves India to go to 1950s London to study.\nThere he leads a life as a different man with an interesting background 'oriental' and fakes the facts of his life.\nLater in London he writes a book of short stories and manages to publish it.\nWillie receives a letter from Ana, a mixed Portuguese and black African girl, who admires his book, and they arrange to meet.\nThey fall in love and Willie follows her to her country (an unnamed Portuguese colony in Africa, presumably Mozambique).\nMeanwhile Willie's sister Sarojini marries a German and moves to Berlin.\nThe novel ends with Willie having moved to his sister's place in Berlin after his 18 year stay in Africa.\nHaving discovered that he's been living other people's lives and mimicking their behaviours to hide his past, it is implied at the end that he drops the mask and comes to peace with his background.\nHalf a Life is a prequel to Naipaul's 2004 novel Magic Seeds which starts with Willie in Berlin.
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conversations.value: Provide a plot for a book titled Half A Life about Christopher's, Charlotte's, Web with the genre: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Books, Literature & Fiction.
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conversations.value: Half a Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation): TheSS.\nEnterprise takes aboard Deanna Troi\'s (Marina Sirtis) eccentric mother Lwaxana (Majel Barrett) and dr Timicin (David Ogden Stiers) of Kaelon II.\nTimicin is brought aboard to conduct an experiment which he hopes will save his threatened home planet, as its sun is in a state of near-collapse.\nThe Federation enlists the Enterprise to take Timicin to a sun in a similar state of decay to conduct experiments which may yield a method for saving the Kaelon system from destruction.\nUpon arrival at their destination, the crew assists Timicin in modifying photon torpedos to launch into the proxy sun with the expectation that it will repair the damaged star and prove that the technique can be safely applied to the Kaelon sun.\nThe torpedos are fired and, although the experiment seems initially to work, the effect is short-lived and the star explodes.\nThe Enterprise returns to Kaelon II.\nTimicin is crushed, and after some questioning by Lwaxana, he reveals that there are other things troubling him.\nTimicin tells Lwaxana that he is about to turn 60, and on Kaelon II, everyone who reaches that age performs the "Resolution", a ritual act of voluntary euthanasia.\nLwaxana is outraged to learn of this and brings it to the attention of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).\nPicard makes it clear to Lwaxana that due to the Prime Directive, he will not interfere in the planet\'s local affairs.\nLwaxana tries to beam herself down to the planet to halt the process herself but she is thwarted by Deanna who comforts her.\nAfter Lwaxana and Timicin spend an evening together, he tries to explain the custom of the Resolution.\nHe tells her that a fixed age had to be selected by the Kaelons because just randomly choosing a time to die would be heartless.\nLwaxana finds the practice barbaric and refuses to accept the Kaelon tradition.\nShe tells Timicin how a Betazed woman on her planet successfully fought the tradition of wearing ornate wigs that contained live, captive birds.\nIt only took one courageous woman to step forward and end this cruel tradition.\nLwaxana also compares Timicin\'s plans to end his life with his research to save his star.\nIf it is Timicin\'s time to die, Lwaxana argues, perhaps it is also time for his star to die as well, so why should he continue to try to prevent it.\nTimicin thinks about what Lwaxana has told him.\nTimicin\'s analysis of the failed test turns up some promising options, but if he follows through with the Resolution, no one will have his experience and knowledge to carry on his work to save his world.\nConcerned, Timicin requests asylum on the Enterprise so that he can renounce the Resolution and continue his research.\nB\'Tardat (Terrence McNally), the Science Minister on Kaelon II, is outraged after learning of Timicin\'s request for asylum, and he sends up two warships to ensure that the Enterprise does not leave the system with Timicin on board.\nAs Picard orders the bridge crew to analyze the offensive capabilities of the Kaelonian ships, Timicin realizes that his situation is not as simple as he had hoped, for his home planet will not accept any further reports from him, and he is told that even if he does find a solution, they will not accept it.\nDara (Michelle Forbes), Timicin\'s daughter, beams on board the Enterprise to insist that he return to Kaelon II and undergo the Resolution.\nShe tells him that she cannot bear the thought of him being laid to rest anywhere but next to her mother and, although she loves him, she is ashamed of him.\nTimicin realizes that he is not the man to forge a cultural revolution, and agrees to return to Kaelon II.\nLwaxana, despite her disagreement, realizes that Timicin\'s decision is his to make.\nAs it is the custom for loved ones to be present at the Resolution, Lwaxana beams down to be with him at his side as he dies.
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conversations.value: \nAs it is the custom for loved ones to be present at the Resolution, Lwaxana beams down to be with him at his side as he dies..\nLwaxana, despite her disagreement, realizes that Timicin\'s decision is his to make.\nTimicin realizes that he is not the man to forge a cultural revolution, and agrees to return to Kaelon II.\nShe tells him that she cannot bear the thought of him being laid to rest anywhere but next to her mother and, although she loves him, she is ashamed of him.\nDara (Michelle Forbes), Timicin\'s daughter, beams on board the Enterprise to insist that he return to Kaelon II and undergo the Resolution.\nAs Picard orders the bridge crew to analyze the offensive capabilities of the Kaelonian ships, Timicin realizes that his situation is not as simple as he had hoped, for his home planet will not accept any further reports from him, and he is told that even if he does find a solution, they will not accept it.\nB\'Tardat (Terrence McNally), the Science Minister on Kaelon II, is outraged after learning of Timicin\'s request for asylum, and he sends up two warships to ensure that the Enterprise does not leave the system with Timicin on board.\nConcerned, Timicin requests asylum on the Enterprise so that he can renounce the Resolution and continue his research.\nTimicin\'s analysis of the failed test turns up some promising options, but if he follows through with the Resolution, no one will have his experience and knowledge to carry on his work to save his world.\nTimicin thinks about what Lwaxana has told him.\nIf it is Timicin\'s time to die, Lwaxana argues, perhaps it is also time for his star to die as well, so why should he continue to try to prevent it.\nLwaxana also compares Timicin\'s plans to end his life with his research to save his star.\nIt only took one courageous woman to step forward and end this cruel tradition.\nShe tells Timicin how a Betazed woman on her planet successfully fought the tradition of wearing ornate wigs that contained live, captive birds.\nLwaxana finds the practice barbaric and refuses to accept the Kaelon tradition.\nHe tells her that a fixed age had to be selected by the Kaelons because just randomly choosing a time to die would be heartless.\nAfter Lwaxana and Timicin spend an evening together, he tries to explain the custom of the Resolution.\nLwaxana tries to beam herself down to the planet to halt the process herself but she is thwarted by Deanna who comforts her.\nPicard makes it clear to Lwaxana that due to the Prime Directive, he will not interfere in the planet\'s local affairs.\nLwaxana is outraged to learn of this and brings it to the attention of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart).\nTimicin tells Lwaxana that he is about to turn 60, and on Kaelon II, everyone who reaches that age performs the "Resolution", a ritual act of voluntary euthanasia.\nTimicin is crushed, and after some questioning by Lwaxana, he reveals that there are other things troubling him.\nThe Enterprise returns to Kaelon II.\nThe torpedos are fired and, although the experiment seems initially to work, the effect is short-lived and the star explodes.\nUpon arrival at their destination, the crew assists Timicin in modifying photon torpedos to launch into the proxy sun with the expectation that it will repair the damaged star and prove that the technique can be safely applied to the Kaelon sun.\nThe Federation enlists the Enterprise to take Timicin to a sun in a similar state of decay to conduct experiments which may yield a method for saving the Kaelon system from destruction.\nTimicin is brought aboard to conduct an experiment which he hopes will save his threatened home planet, as its sun is in a state of near-collapse.\nEnterprise takes aboard Deanna Troi\'s (Marina Sirtis) eccentric mother Lwaxana (Majel Barrett) and dr Timicin (David Ogden Stiers) of Kaelon II.Half a Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation): TheSS
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conversations.value: Half a Life (memoir): Strauss\'s memoir grew out of a 2008 This American Life episode entitled "Life After Death," in which the author addressed the effects of a high school traffic accident: a classmate on a bicycle swerved in front of his car, which struck and killed her.\nAlthough it was determined Strauss could in no way have avoided the accident, the book details his attempts, over half his life, to come to terms with his feelings of responsibility.
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conversations.value: Half a Life (memoir): Strauss\'s memoir grew out of a 2008 This American Life episode entitled "Life After Death," in which the author addressed the effects of a high school traffic accident: a classmate on a bicycle swerved in front of his car, which struck and killed her.\nAlthough it was determined Strauss could in no way have avoided the accident, the book details his attempts, over half his life, to come to terms with his feelings of responsibility.