Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 12, 2025

White Noise by Don DeLillo, a review

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At the time Don DeLillo wrote White Noise (1985) computers were still a discrete object and something that you engaged with on an occasiona...
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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Sword of the Gael by Andrew J. Offutt, a review

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Sword-and-sorcery typically works better in the short form than the novel, and I think I know why. It’s a lot harder to sustain breakneck ac...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

A sorely needed, swordly-and-sorcerous week off

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It's 5 o'clock somewhere ... My grandfather had fabulous foresight. After WW2 he and his buddy bought a piece of property in the lak...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

I am Werewolf Boy

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Written storytelling has a unique and curious aspect. If a story has a great enough impact on you as a child or young adult, re-reading it c...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell; a review

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“Myths formulate things for you. They say, for example, that you have to become an adult at a particular age. The age might be a good averag...
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Monday, June 23, 2025

A little piece of Howard Days wends its way home: God's Blade

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One of the cool things you encounter attending Howard Days are many bits of Howard and Howard-adjacent ephemera fans bring to the silent auc...
Tuesday, June 17, 2025

I've finally got it: Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things

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Pumped for this delivery. When I was a kid I used to regularly check out Monster Tales: Vampires, Werewolves & Things  (1973, Rand McNal...
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, a review

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Lady Gaga would appreciate this romance.... I don’t read much romance. But when I do, I read The Romance of Tristan and Iseult . It’s an old...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Three things

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Walk with me... Thing 1 I just finished re-reading The Long Walk after a long walk of my own, years and years of life since my last reading...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck, a review

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John Steinbeck is rightly remembered these days as a Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Grapes of Wrath and secondarily, East of Eden; a...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Robert E. Howard, The Life and Times of a Texas Author: A review

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How do you review a new Robert E. Howard biography? Perhaps with the question: Do we need a new Howard biography? After all, we have two maj...
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Friday, April 11, 2025

The Knight stands against nihilism

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Excellent book... unfortunate cover blurb. “It is honor, Able. A knight is a man who lives honorably and dies honorably, because he cares mo...
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

The Ring of the Nibelung/Roy Thomas and Gil Kane

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The Ring is mine! Over the course of my lifetime I’ve been exposed to Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in many and various ways. T...
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