OK, get over the horrible book aesthetics of yesteryear:
Looks like a relevant read (no pun intended on the author’s name).
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There is a story told of C. S. Lewis, as a small boy — about six or seven, I think. One day he announced to his father,
“Daddy, I have a prejudice against the French.”
“Why?” asked his father, not unreasonably.”
“If I knew that,” replied the precocious youngster triumphantly, “it wouldn’t be a prejudice.”
He was quite right, […]
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I recently found that I had forgotten/lost some stuff from my last Presbytery meaning. Out of sight, out of mind, and all that. I hate this especially because I had intended to read and review for you Dr. Peterson’s (full disclosure: he was one of my systematics professors at my alma mater) Election & Free […]
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I doubt there is much need for me to describe this book. If you like Stephen King or Dean Koontz, if you like C. S. Lewis (especially The Magician’s Nephew), if you like Tim Powers or James Blaylock (and you really should), if you have any appreciation for urban fantasy (though it is set in rural […]
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I’m not hearing anything good, and am wondering if I should spend the money on Iron Man instead.
Lori
Doug
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In my review of the comic book, I forgot to mention how weird it was to get “thought bubbles” of text bubbling from Buffy’s head.
You virtually never had that in the TV show. Maybe one episode started with Buffy reading Jack London as a voice-over narration to events, but that was the exception. And you […]
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Note to self: Try this.
Hat tip and in turn a hat tip to this blog’s shared items.
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I can’t vouch for all of the writer’s other series–just in case anyone searches Amazon or uses some other search engine (I’ve decided to stop using Google as a verb). I’m also hoping the next two books in the trilogy don’t do anything to make me regret this recommendation. With those caveats in […]
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A few blurbs:
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“When I was deciding whether or not to run for President as a Republican, I re-read Justin Raimondo’s Reclaiming the American Right and it gave me hope—that the anti-interventionist, pro-liberty Old Right, which had once dominated the party, could and would rise again. Here is living history: the story of an intellectual and […]
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Reading The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane has reminded me, by contrast, of how immensely great is Lloyd Alexanders’s Prydain series. The series is five books:
The Book of Three
The Black Cauldron
The Castle of Llyr
Taran Wanderer
The High King
To repeat, the greatness of the books stands out to me all the more reading Robert E. […]
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Gene Wolfe’s tetralogy The Book of the New Sun is every bit as epic as Lord of the Rings, and perhaps even more creative. It follows the life of Severian who is exiled from the Torturers Guild for showing mercy and who, as he says, “backs into the throne.”
Wolfe’s story is set a million […]
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I have said some really negative things about this book here. I still think they are true.
But I feel obligated to point out that, if you can overlook the problems, the book a really, REALLY F U N !
If you like the swords and sorcery genre at all, you should give Howard a […]
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I had read and loved Tim Powers’ fantasy stories set in the past of Reformation-era Venice, the Europe of the Romantic poets, the Caribbean of the Pirates, and a post-apocalyptic future. But Last Call was amazing. Set in a contemporary Las Vegas where gamblers’ must always have cigarettes in hand and drinks at […]
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Since John Wright blogged about it, I decided to purchase a copy of The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane. I thought it might be OK at some point to encourage my boys to read.Don’t think so.For one thing, the racism about Africa is just too much to bear. Kane would never be a […]
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 1: The Long Way Home
What can I say about this?
One of the unique things about the TV show was that it made the writers famous. Part of that was the fact that it came into its own at just the right time to be one of th […]
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Long long ago I wrote a tract for my website entitled, “Why baptize babies.” I actually started to blog the content at one point, but instead asked the good people at Athanasius Press if they wanted to publish it. After making alterations and variouis edits, it was deemed suitable for publication and is […]
