Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reviews. Show all posts
Thursday, October 2, 2025

A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap

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Tap crossed that line... which way? There is a picture of me going to see KISS on their hotly anticipated, sold out 1996 reunion tour. In it...
Friday, September 19, 2025

Disconnect

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“Jeremiah, maybe you best go down to a town, get outta these mountains.” “I've been to a town Del.” --Jeremiah Johnson Technology has ta...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Of pastiche and John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Living Plague

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These dead are unquiet... I don’t mind pastiche … which is I suppose a bit of a lukewarm way of saying I support it. Nonetheless it’s how I ...
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Friday, September 12, 2025

Bruce Dickinson at the House of Blues, Boston MA Sept. 11, 2025

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If all Bruce Dickinson had was his solo career he’d still be remembered in the annals of heavy metal. Bruce’s best solo efforts— Accident of...
Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Celtic Adventures wrapup and on into Cimmerian September

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Worth your 10 cents... I just closed the cover on DMR Books’ latest release, Celtic Adventures , and had to say a few words about the final ...
Friday, August 29, 2025

Celtic Adventures: Of Conan, a chasm, and “People of the Dark”

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This cover makes me want to drink Guinness and fight. When I read I don’t go looking for symbols … but sometimes they just hit me in the fac...
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Friday, August 22, 2025

Revisiting H.P. Lovecraft's "The Silver Key"

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I don’t expend a lot of digital ink on H.P. Lovecraft, but everything I do is related in one way or other to the old gent from Providence (b...
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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 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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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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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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