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Guest Post: Cine-Books

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Hey guys!

I have an exciting post for you all. A company reached out to me and asked me to post a guest post, and I thought this would be a great article
for you all to read. I will be including pictures, the article and a link to the official YouTube trailer for the company. I hope you guys will
enjoy this post.

Author Anthony Avina

 

CINE-BOOKS — read, listen and even watch books!

 It is believed that the age of books is over. This is partly true. The Internet readily provides almost any information you can imagine. You don’t need a dictionary to translate a single word, and there’s no more need to keep a collection of encyclopedias at home. Entertaining websites, social networks, TV and cinema gave a good thrashing to fiction, but the fight is not over yet. The CINE-BOOKS Company decided to bring a new life to the book-reading.

 

Do you sometimes find yourself thinking that a book was much better than its movie adaptation? The major advantage of books today is their capacity for information and display of authors’ unique styles. An average book holds much more content than a movie. Author’s description of some location could be much more interesting than just a view of a mountain or forest in a movie. At the same time movies involve us in the story in the easiest way. We can behold everything from behind without any necessity read and imagine what’s going on.

Thus the question of marrying the new visual technologies and advantages of the traditional book reading remained open until recently. The CINE-BOOKS Company is going to move literature to the next level and make it competitive to other modern kind of entertainment.

Every book is adapted entirely and literally. There are no more cuts and directing errors like in general movie adaptations. Absolutely every piece of a story in cine-books is enriched with cinematic animated illustrations. They seamlessly merge with the text creating an organic flow, rather than selectively illustrating the fragments of the plot.

 

The company holds a full cast of film crew and hire professional actors to illustrate each cine-book. Every frame that appears before the eyes of a cine-reader is directed with exactly the same requirements as a Hollywood movie. Сostumes, makeup, scenery — everything is selected in full compliance with the author’s description. Both location shooting and green screen technology are used to create a spectacular and realistic cine-books. Afterwards the footage  gets processed by the 3D artists and animators who bring the image to its final quality.

 

You can READ cine-books like regular written stories illustrated with cinematic quality photos on each page. LISTEN to them as audio-books with professional voice-acting, background audio and musical inserts. Or even WATCH them just like movies with dynamic animations and special effects that breathe new life into every story!

 

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Many innovators are eager to create something radically new, but in this case their efforts are not appreciated. The reading audience holds to traditions. Cine-books are an organic blend between the classic book reading experience and the cutting-edge technologies, perfected with the highest standards of quality during all stages of production. Once a heavy leather-bound volume with color illustrations was a source of great pride for its owner. Today, cine-books are ready to take over the torch. Cine-books bring the best experience and total immersion wherever you are — on the road or at home, alone or with family. Cine-book format makes reading more fun without sacrificing quality or depth!
Visit cine-books.com to learn more and support this ambitious startup.

 

 

Cine-books trailer: https://youtu.be/Z1NyEb0BeNQ

 

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The Helper by M.N. Snow Book Review

An emotional story of hope, love and the power to help, and what people do with that power. That is how I would describe The Helper, a fantastic
novel written by author M.N. Snow that explores the story of three people with unique abilities that allow them to help others, and the
complicated lives they lead because of it. First, here is the official synopsis:

A tale that combines contemporary, speculative fiction with an ambiguous spirituality. The book explores relationships between lovers, friends,
families, and what Powers of Good there may be.

John Sloan is an ex-Marine with a life-long secret that is haunting him. He is a conduit to a healing light that draws him to people on the
brink of emotional disintegration, people who are then healed and Helped by this light. His blue-collar world is shattered when he finds that
his connection to this anonymous portal has vanished. He is alone, seemingly beyond aid, and in desperate need of a Helping himself.

The book tracks the intersecting lives of John and two other Helpers. His lifelong friend Dusty Hakalla is a mixed-blood Ojibwe, with a secret
of his own. His power to Help is remarkable, but was once destructively misused. A career Marine, his scarred childhood and momentary abuse of
power have left him jaded and bereft. Deena Morrison, also a Helper, is John’s girlfriend. Adopted as an infant, she flees John to find her
birth-mother, while carrying within herself her own secret. Another character shadows their lives as narrator, Nan’b’oozoo, the trickster god of
Ojibwe legend—at times sarcastic and petulant, at others insightful and humorous.

The novel travels from the gritty Lake Superior port-cities and Indian Reservations of northern Wisconsin to the Jewish neighborhoods of North
Miami Beach, Florida—from Parris Island to the war zones of Kuwait and Afghanistan.

The story of John, Deena and Dusty is packed full of emotional stories that jump back and forth through time thanks to the narrative storytelling
of the narrator. Watching these characters grow up separately in very different circumstances, and seeing their very different approaches to the
gift of Helping was gripping to read. This is an incredibly well-written story, that often reminded me of the same storytelling style of
Stephen King, creating eloquent plot lines with realistic characters that spoke of the various types of people you’d expect to meet in these
places and time periods written about in the book. Getting to see the impact this force of good has on these individuals, and getting to see protagonist
John give so much of himself to others, only to discover he is the one in need of Helping once his power seems to disappear, taking pieces of
himself slowly and painfully as well.

Analyzing the impact of war, racism, violence and the struggle to remain good in a world that constantly threatens to overwhelm people with evil
and darkness, The Helper is a phenomenal read that deserves to be read. The passion that this story is told with showcases a strong command
over the narrative, and author M.N. Snow showcases a talent that is too bright not to be recognized. Filled with romance, friendship and the
constant struggle to remain good, this is a powerful book that everyone should get, so be sure to pick up your copies of M.N. Snow’s The Helper
now!

Rating: 10/10