The Mosquito Coast
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The film adaptation from the mid-1980s with Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren and River Phoenix (cast as the teenage narrator) had such an impact on me. I knew I would read the novel one day, even if it was to see how well the director, Peter Weir, recreated it for the screen. Both the novel and film are b......more

It’s a hard book to categorise, this one: coming-of-age yarn, adventure story, literary fiction? Well, in truth, all of the above. I’d read one of the author’s renowned travel books (which I thoroughly enjoyed), but this was my first experience of his fiction. And a pretty good experience it turned......more

An overzealous father uproots his family in the middle of the night to leave America, with only their clothes on their back, to journey to the deep jungles of Honduras. Here he has grandiose hopes to build a radical new civilization in which he is the leader of. Although a brilliant inventor, he is......more

I first watched the movie in high school and felt deeply moved by it. Read the book a few years after graduating college and was equally swept. Saw the new Apple TV series last year and turned it off - diverged too much from the book. For many years, if someone asked me what my favorite book was, I p......more

I do research in spoken language technology, building software that people can talk to. Right now, our main project is an app that lets beginning language students practice their speaking skills; if you're interested, you can find out more here. We have been working on it for about three and half ye......more