Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
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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Saturday, March 15, 2025

The Empress of Dreams—an (overdue) appreciation of Tanith Lee

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I don’t write fiction, but I’ve read enough of it to make some observations about what makes for good writing. Here’s one: Good writing resu...
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Monday, March 3, 2025

Martin Eden (1909), Jack London

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A great voyage of the soul... Jack London is a great writer, full stop. Upon reading Martin Eden (1909) I declare he now resides firmly in ...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

Paper books are better than digital: Five reasons why

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In many ways life is better today than it ever has been. In other ways, not so much. Parse this statement in whatever way you choose. One ar...
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Monday, February 17, 2025

Ardor on Aros, andrew j. offutt

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A cover better than the contents... unfortunately true of many Frazettas. A very brief review of Ardor on Aros , by andrew j. offutt (1973)....
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Stoner by John Williams, a review

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(warning: spoilers… though you can’t really spoil a book like this) It’s not worth talking about the plot of Stoner (1965, John Williams). B...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Branching out in my reading, and reaching a crossroads

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Squint, and it's Conan?  I’m a man of multitudes. I read in many genres, including (gasp) beyond the borders of speculative fiction. Alt...
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Sunday, January 19, 2025

Blogging the Silmarillion--all parts linked

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I've finished uploading all my prior Blogging the Silmarillion posts. In hindsight I feel like I wrote as many words as The Silmarillion...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Gone to the Wolves by John Wray, a review

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80s metal... take me back. Heavy metal ebbs and flows in my veins—but never runs dry. Even as alternative forms of audio entertainment from ...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Blogging the Silmarillion--of faith and resisting despair

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I finished re-reading The Silmarillion last night and so will update the remainder of my prior posts on the book. I don’t have a whole lot ...
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Friday, January 3, 2025

Evil never dies: Parts 3 and 4 of Blogging the Silmarillion updated

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There is much goodness in Tolkien. But ample darkness, too. In The Lord of the Rings,  evil is exemplified in Sauron and the orcs and Shelob...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Silver Key: 2024 in review

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Life is pretty good these days, both personally and creatively. Even though I slowed down a bit on the blog, I’m making an impact. Life is i...
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Thursday, December 19, 2024

Silmarillion re-read, link to part 1 and letter to Milton Waldman

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White ships from Valinor, Ted Nasmith. I’m currently re-reading The Silmarillion and you can now find the full post of part 1 of my 2010 “B...
Monday, December 16, 2024

Re-reading The Silmarillion, and reviving my old Cimmerian posts

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I've started re-reading The Silmarillion . It's been a few years, and I'm due to revisit the rich and wonderful history of Middl...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Of the year in writing, and reading--memoir update and more

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I went outside yesterday to take in the trash barrel and pick up the mail (exciting stuff--I’m a rock star, in case you haven’t realized tha...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sons of Albion awake: Of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur and Iron Maiden

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You'll probably want to read this. The King Arthur myth is ubiquitous and timeless because it is powerful and its themes universal. The...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Immaculate Scoundrels by John Fultz, a review

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An immaculate cover. When it appears in sword-and-sorcery anthologies, John Fultz is a name that I look forward to reading. Why? His “Chivan...
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Saturday, October 19, 2024

Stephen King's The Shining, book and film

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I’m a big fan of The Shining , book and film. Both work really well, for slightly different reasons. My grandfather owned this edition. I en...
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