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Category: Book Reviews

  • In Search of the Unknown by Robert Chambers Book Review.

    We’re employed by the Jesuits at the Smithsonian to find and return zoological specimens. Animals long extinct, mythological creatures the Jesuits created from papier-mâché and whole cloth. No expense is spared. You are bedecked in the cutest outfits, we bring with us the finest cigars, we go to far away places by train and carriage.…

  • The Devil in Manuscript. The King in Yellow. Edited by Osie Turner Book Review.

    The cover image alone is worth at least one-thousand wizard credits. Let’s talk about it over a bottle of red. Afterwards, we’ll sit on the sea shore and talk some more. You look like heaven in your dress, leather ribbon round your middle. A circlet of gold in your hair. Would it be possible to…

  • The Coronado Expedition by George Parker Winship. Book Review.

    1540 lol. I do not subscribe to history. Within the text lies a terrified child. Let’s go deeper. History. Coronado, from Culiacan (one-hundred leagues Northwest of Mexico city.) in 1540, took a troop of high-up Spanish soldier-boys into the Mexican Highlands. The soldier-boys were playing too much grab-ass with the maidens, and causing too much…

  • Strange Tales of the High Seas by Osie Turner, Morgan Robertson, William Hope Hodgson Book Review

    Great collection of adventure, ghosts, shipwrecks, and insurance scam barratry. Morgan Robertson, in his story, THE WRECK OF THE TITAN, exactly predicts and describes the sinking of the Titanic more than a decade before the actual event. James Cameron, here’s to you, your submarine, and the deepest abyss. The Titanic allegedly sunk in 1912. Mr.…

  • Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Book Review

    Curious book about discovery, direction, and predetermined destination by secret society. An alter is prepared covered in green tapestry. Wilhelm enters the inner sanctum, his life revealed as a program, a stage act; all his movements known and precalculated by mysterious hidden hand. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, published 1795 Greg. I dislike Wilhelm. He’s the kind…

  • Mignon – A Character Reveal – Book Review

    Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Goethe: Full Book Review Here I’m in a precarious situation here. I’ve reached a go-no-go point in this book. The Mignon reveal is going to be sweet nectar, milk chocolate, and honey. I don’t know what’s going to happen. She’s just a child, she dances, sings, and dresses like a boy.…

  • Peter Pan. Intergalactic Finance Minister

    I went to the theater when I was a boy.I saw a troupe of children put on a fantastic Peter Pan play.The players not much older than I.And oh my. It was Peter Pan.Forest green tights.Pixie crop cut.Her pert bosom blossoming under mossy smock.A perfect Pan.A total prepubescent panic.I fell in love at the theater.With…

  • The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Book Review

    This story published in 1774 is terrible! Just terrible. I couldn’t put the book down! The love between Werther and Charlotte is genuine to be sure. Strong, stupid, selfish, deadly passion. Thanks be to God I am not a stupid young man any more! These passions are outlived. I feel the desperation, full of want…

  • Two Years Holiday by Jules Verne Book Review

    The boys are shipwrecked. Fifteen of them. Aging from eight to fourteen years old. No adults around. They live on the island without trouble, build shelter in a cave, read lessons from a small library, hunt game, gather the flocks, and harvest the herbs. Everything is working out marvelously. The French boy, Briant, is likable.…

  • The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Book Review

    Published 1878 Set on the heavenly heath. The summit of the barrow, undulating folds of the field. Secret grassy swales for lovers to hide. The heathmen burn the furze on the Fifth of November. Men and women dance around the wispy flames. Enter Suitor One: A reddleman. He’s colored red from toe to head. The…