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Book Review: Stoner by John Williams
When I was a kid I use to walk through graveyards. I’d search for the oldest headstones and longest lived lying beneath them. I remember running charcoal across crumbled paper in order to decipher those too weathered and beaten to … Continue reading
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Tagged american literature, classics, college, Education, Existentialism, humanity, John Edward Williams, John Williams, literary fiction, Love, perfection, Stoner, World War I
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Book Review: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
I read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow back in high school. It was Halloween and as all teachers strive to tie literature to something relevant in their students’ lives, mine did the same. I didn’t remember it. I remember being … Continue reading
Book Review: King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
I don’t demand much from my nonfiction. If you’re teaching me something and can convey it even in a lightly poetic prose then I’m going to love you. Maybe I’m just cheap, maybe I’m just easily impressed by people … Continue reading
Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Half Holocaust chronicle, half psychoanalytical pimping, this book straddles a strange place stuck between delving into the human condition and feeling good like some sort of literary infomercial. Fortunately, what it’s selling isn’t vulgar and is ultimately as ethereal and … Continue reading
Book Review: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
It’s a weird world and I’m weird man, in a weird place, not unlike the world Atwood writes about here. The way it’s written though, it’s different, strange, lyricless when compared to her other work. There is this self-aware lack … Continue reading
Book Review: Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein
Heinlein has always struck me as the weakest of The Big Three. His writing isn’t as good, his stories often lacking in any truly big or interesting ideas. He always felt more like a holdover from the adventure magazine days … Continue reading
Book Review: The Diviners by Libba Bray
At its heart The Diviner’s is an average adventure story with a touch of horror thrown in to keep the reader from feeling too comfortable. It’s got some decent ideas and a few good turns of phrase that keep it … Continue reading
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Tagged Eugenics, fantasy, historical fiction, Justice League, Libba Bray, mystery, Paranormal, Prohibition, Roaring Twenties, Supernatural, The Diviners, YA, young adult
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Book Review: The Dark Tower by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #7)
This book is strange. It brings the dark tower series to an end but it does so with an awareness that seems to call to King to take and try every possible narrative strangeness he can muster. It was visible … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, Conclusion, fantasy, Good vs. Evil, horror, science fiction, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Dark Tower Series, Thriller, western
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Book Review: Song of Susannah by Stephen King (The Dark Tower #6)
Finally, we are back to proper pace. No longer strangling back in the rooms of the past or the empty pathways of a dusty, broken town, we are dragged back into a rhythm closer to that of The Drawing of … Continue reading
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Tagged adventure, fantasy, horror, Multiple Universes, science fiction, Song of Susannah, Stephen King, The Dark Tower Series, Thriller
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