He explained why stores like his and Google are ready to write the eBook of love, not war.
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But his love of war stories, rifles, and shotguns never extended into the realm of automatic or semi-automatic weapons.
This beautifully written book is powerfully evocative of the human cost of war and the longing for love that, despite the shooting and shelling, never fades.
Their story across both books has as many interpretations as characters: Stuart (pedestrian materialist or honest realist) is the victim (all's fair in love and war) of his best friend Oliver (pretentious parasite or inspired romantic) who steals (wins) his wife, Gillian, and goes to live with her in France.
Take Gears of War, a game critics love to say people play for the action, not the story.
Throughout history, those who have known the horror of war -- and the love behind all great sacrifice -- have tried to put those emotions into words.
He also creates two decent female roles - the club's manager Marian - an ex-"Swing Kid" interned before the war for her love of American music - and waitress Elke, who hides her disgust for her nation behind a brash American accent.
After the war Peyton pursued his love of drawing, heading to Manchester Art School where he met future wife and now successful children's author Kath Peyton.
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People love football so much, it unifies even in times of war.
Most Arab leaders have little love for Colonel Qaddafi, so have muted their criticism of this latest war.
Plenty of animals trade signals with one another--calls to love, calls to war.
Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.
They were madly in love and eager to start their new life, but the war had plans of its own.
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