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Desperation is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym. It was also made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006. The two novels represent parallel universes relative ...
The title, Desperate Characters, comes from a sentence in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” In the novel, Charlie and Sophie discuss Charlie's "desperation," and Otto tells Sophie that he and Charlie had recently argued over the Thoreau quote.
The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation.
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
Desperate may refer to: . Despair (emotion), a feeling of hopelessness Desperate, a 1947 suspense film directed by Anthony Mann; Desperate (Divinyls album), a 1983 album by Australian rock group Divinyls
Stephen King's Desperation is a 2006 American made-for-TV horror film based on Stephen King's 1996 novel of the same name. King himself wrote the teleplay. King himself wrote the teleplay. The film was directed by frequent King collaborator Mick Garris and stars Ron Perlman , Tom Skerritt , Steven Weber and Annabeth Gish .
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
The Wombats Proudly Present A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, usually shortened to A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, is the debut major studio album by English rock band the Wombats. It was released by 14th Floor Records on 5 November 2007. [2] Most of the songs first appeared on the band's 2006 Japan-only album Girls, Boys and Marsupials.