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Thanksgiving Week Glut

The Odyssey by Homer; Emily Wilson

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

Free Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed

Dragons of Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood

Glory by Vladimir Nabokov

Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Books of Blood by Clive Barker

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

November 29, 2021 by vel veeter 2 Comments

The Odyssey – 5/5 Stars So my review is specific to the newer Emily Wilson translation, which I find particularly good and readable. She writes a long introduction that serves as a solid guide to the epic, to the writing, the historical context, and other important keys. This is long, but worthwhile, especially if you’re new to the story or it’s been a long time or you’re a little rough in your epic-reading. From there, there’s a very good translator’s note of some length explaining […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Clive Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Wood, haruki murakami, Homer; Emily Wilson, ishmael reed, kurt vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Philip Jose Farmer, roger zelazny, Vladimir Nabokov, William Boyd

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:495 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Clive Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Wood, haruki murakami, Homer; Emily Wilson, ishmael reed, kurt vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Philip Jose Farmer, roger zelazny, Vladimir Nabokov, William Boyd ·
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Not the sequel to The Chocolate War

April 2, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This novel takes place in what is now Tanzania, and I know this because at several points I was Wikipediaing a lot of the details. For example, William Boyd was born in Gold Coast. And I had no idea that was what is now Ghana. So anyway, Tanzania was for a bit of time the bordering colonies of German East Africa and British East Africa, but those were more historically Zanzibar and Tanganyika. So here we are. So this novel is about a group of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an icea cream war, William Boyd

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:135 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an icea cream war, William Boyd ·
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To many left behind, on this circle round the sun…

February 9, 2017 by Krieger_clone Leave a Comment

(Note any gifs here come from the mini-series I’m not in the habit of inserting random gifs of Mathew Macfadyen into my reviews though I can by request….) How do we measure a life lived? By the sum of all the money we have made? By the people we love and who have loved us back? By the places we have been or events we have witnessed? By all of these things or none of them at all? Any Human Heart is the story of a full […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: #history, 20th Century, any Human heart, journal, William Boyd

Krieger_clone's CBR9 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: #history, 20th Century, any Human heart, journal, William Boyd ·
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