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Dracula
Dracula© 1897 Bram Stoker416 pages Every attorney has problematic clients, but few can claim an actual monster. Such is the case with Count Dracula, as young lawyer Jonathan Hawker discovers to his dismay and horror when he arrives at the … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", Classics and Literary, Classics Club, Classics Club Challenge, fantasy, horror
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Perelandra
Perelandra© 1943 C.S. Lewis322 pages In Out of the Silent Planet, Dr. Erwin Ransom was kidnapped by two malevolent technologists who thought to offer him as a sacrifice to the ruler of Mars, a planet they were interested in mining … Continue reading
Short rounds: explosives and Martians
Tonight I finally gave up on Hayduke Lives!, the sequel to Edward Abbey’s Monkey Wrench Gang. The plot only arrives four-fifths of the way into the book, having been preceded by lots of stream-of-consciousness rambling, pointless arguments, and enough breast … Continue reading
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Tagged American Southwest, C.S.Lewis, CS Lewis, Edward Abbey, fantasy, science fiction
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The Sword of Summer
Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer© 2015 Rick Riordan491 pages Magnus Chase is the Boy Who Lived. As a youngster he witnessed his mother sacrifice herself for him, dying at the hands of some evil … Continue reading
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child© 2016 Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling, and John Tiffany320 pages Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the book young adults who grew up with Harry have been waiting for….though it’s not quite what they … Continue reading
In the Days of the Comet
In the Days of the Comet© 1906 H.G. Wells276 pages Have you been cyanogened yet? Carl Sagan delivered that preposterous line in the original Cosmos, reading the newspaper headlines of a century past. Then, as Halley’s Comet approached the Earth, … Continue reading
Bilbo’s Journey
Bilbo’s Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit© 2012 Joseph Pearce147 pages The Hobbit begins with the sudden arrival of a pack of dwarves at Bilbo Baggin’s house. Though he is very much the quiet homebody, they have arrived … Continue reading
Return to Bag End
On March 25th, by the reckoning of the Shire, the Ring of Power was cast into the Cracks of Doom and the vicious horde facing the Men of the West melted away. I would it would be appropriate, therefore, to … Continue reading