Book Reviews
Novel and Nonfiction reviews, as posted on Amazon or Goodreads.
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The First Law Trilogy: A Book Review
I’m going to be doing something a little different for this review. For one, I’m reviewing three books in one, as I couldn’t stop reading between them long enough to gather my thoughts coherently enough for a post, and secondly, I’ll be using a lot of material from N J Magas’s in-depth reviews to talk…
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Trumps of Doom: A Review
Trumps of Doom by Roger Zelazny My rating: 1 of 5 stars The Cycle of Corwin has ended. Now come the adventures of his son, Merlin, born of Dara, holy terror of the Courts of Chaos. You might remember her as the demon that disguised herself as Corwin’s grand-niece, in order to learn how to…
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Tackling Poe: Final Thoughts
I finished reading Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems about a week ago, but I wanted to give myself some time to digest everything, watch The Raven, and to formulate my final thoughts, which is, of course, why I’m posting this. This is also my 90th post on this blog, and I’m getting pretty…
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Tackling Poe: The Complete Works, Part 13
In true Poe fashion, Tackling Poe: The Complete Works is concluding with part 13. 13! This time, we’ll be looking at all of his essays. The complete essays include: Philosophy of Furniture A Tale of Jerusalem The Sphinx Hop-Frog The Man of the Crowd Never Bet the Devil Your Head Thou Art the Man Why…
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The Courts of Chaos: A Review
The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny My rating: 3 of 5 stars “Do we make the Shadow worlds? Or are they there, independent of us, awaiting our footfalls?” ––Corwin, Prince of Amber, Prince of Chaos The Courts of Chaos, the final book in the Corwin Cycle of The Book of Amber, is a sojourn…
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