Category: Book Reviews
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Leni Riefenstahl: The Seduction of Genius by Rainer Rother Book Review
Post Views: 23 It was not my intention to read a critical film review on Leni Riefenstahl, Nazi director par excellence. I’d never heard of her or her films. I saw her name in Marc Eliot’s Disney biography. A quick search revealed her Wiki. I saw an image of her filming a scene with an…
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Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince by Marc Eliot Book Review
Post Views: 43 I’m disgusted by Disney. I love Disney. Disney represents all that is wrong with America. Disney is why I love America. It’s a confusing set of emotions and ideas. On one hand, I love the feeling of Disneyland, the Utopian park of never-ending Peter Pan dreams, prepubescent panic of true love, the…
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In Search of the Unknown by Robert Chambers Book Review.
Post Views: 50 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…
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The Devil in Manuscript. The King in Yellow. Edited by Osie Turner Book Review.
Post Views: 91 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…
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The Coronado Expedition by George Parker Winship. Book Review.
Post Views: 103 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…
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Strange Tales of the High Seas by Osie Turner, Morgan Robertson, William Hope Hodgson Book Review
Post Views: 81 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…
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Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Book Review
Post Views: 113 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.…
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Mignon – A Character Reveal – Book Review
Post Views: 71 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…
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Peter Pan. Intergalactic Finance Minister
Post Views: 111 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…
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The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Book Review
Post Views: 73 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,…
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Two Years Holiday by Jules Verne Book Review
Post Views: 78 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,…
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Earth’s Last Citadel by C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner Book Review
Post Views: 61 We begin in the sands of Tunis. Following the path of a shooting star. A faint emerald glow can be seen above the undulating dunes. We follow the light. A radiant star portal is found beside a green oasis, we pause for repast and prayer. Your hair wrapped in white silk, your…
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The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy Book Review
Post Views: 71 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…
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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott Book Review
Post Views: 88 Published 1830. Do you believe in enchantments? Is the presence of the creator working on supernatural levels? Do you believe in angels? Are you an angel? Let the Holy Spirit move through us.We are together. Only harmonizing, always resonant.Pure thought. Righteous action. Perfect love. 🙏🏻 Sir Walter Scott informs us that the…
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The Mask of Circe by Henry Kuttner book review
Post Views: 72 I am Jason of Argo. I feel her keel vibrating in the sea. The slap of water against her prow. Our connection is surreal. My memory of you is undeniable. You were a light warrior. I was your lover. Now I find you here. Strange, wonderful, electrifying. I know I’m jumping timelines.…
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Robur The Conqueror by Jules Verne Book Review
Post Views: 59 Arrange first class travel on your finest sailing vessel. I’ll take you to X Island. The lady and I will stroll the decks, play guitars in our cabin, and eat like rabbits. Salad mostly. Red wine on full moons only. Several pounds of fresh coffee and freshly rolled Turkish cigars. At the…
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Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Book Review
Post Views: 54 Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Book Review. It’s a love story! Published 1874 Gregorian. Meet the suitors: Gabriel Oak. The shepherd, strong as oak, always at the heels of our fine heroine. Mr. Boldwood. Gentleman farmer, waste of space. Totally taken by her beauty, lured in and dumbstruck by…
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Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett Book Review
Post Views: 59 Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett Book Review This epistolary travelogue from 1763 is absolutely littered with dyno droppings. Smollett shreds the French. It’s funny and pleasing to read about Pepe Le Pew. Way too much dollar cost averaging in this man’s journal. He reports the price of everything; food,…
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A Tour On The Prairies by Washington Irving Book Review
Post Views: 54 A Tour On The Prairies by Washington Irving Book Review I’ll meet you at Fort Gibson in Oklahoma on October 28, 1832. We’ll hire a couple of indians and a creole. Their orders are to help provision our larder during a 30 day march into the Autumnal Pawnee hunting grounds. We meet…
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Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens Book Review
Post Views: 37 Pictures From Italy by Charles Dickens Book Review The Italian countryside is full of ruins, temples, churches, relics, and wicked Roman rituals. Venice is a dream scene. Rome is a disgusting show of pageantry, relic worship, and tall hats on ugly men. Dickens Necromancy. Dickens describes execution he attended in Rome. Chop…
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Knickerbocker’s History of New York by Washington Irving Book Review
Post Views: 36 Knickerbocker’s History of New York by Washington Irving Book Review There are numerous reasons to turn down a book entitled, “History of New York”, not the least of which is the Damn Yankees and their insufferable New Englander ways. (Washington Irving calls them Amphictyons) Add to this major demerit the author, Washington…
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American Notes For General Circulation by Charles Dickens Book Review
Post Views: 38 American Notes For General Circulation by Charles Dickens Book Review I’m looking through the table of contents in my Dickens collection. Under the non-fiction header I find listed “American Notes”. I read one chapter towards the end. I’m in a wooden rail car, showers of sparks are flying from the anthracite stoves.…
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Around the Moon by Jules Verne Book Review. Techno Space Religion
Post Views: 26 Around the Moon by Jules Verne Book Review See also: From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne book review. The moon shot story continues. Three men launched into space by secret society magicians. (Gun Club) The men in the capsule make many discoveries: Velcro and image manipulation techniques. The moon…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book review
Post Views: 35 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle book review. Lord Henry of Baskerville Castle drops dead in the moor. Huge footprints of hell-hound origin are found near his body. Sherlock Holmes smokes a pound of tobacco, drinks two pots of coffee, and stares into the fire at his Baker…
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The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne Book Review
Post Views: 39 The Children of Captain Grant by Jules Verne Book Review Lord Glenarvan of Malcom Castle is finishing initial sea trials on his new sailing yacht. THE DUNCAN. Three masted, steam powered, screw driven, ocean going sea vessel with crew of twenty sailors. It was Lord Glenarvan’s intention to present the ship to…
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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Fontenelle Book Review.
Post Views: 34 Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds by Fontenelle Book Review. Published 1686 – almost “FOUR HUNDRED” so-called “YEARS” ago. I’m delighted to have the company of a young Marquise. She’s visiting Debonshire to spend the summer. I am her personal savant. We stroll the gardens of our benefactor, a lead matron in…
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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne Book Review
Post Views: 36 The Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne Book Review Captain Hatteras used anonymous means to build, outfit, and crew his ship. The men selected to sail with The FORWARD are sober, without family, children, or wives. The crew embarks without knowing the captain, destination, or purpose of the journey. Captain Hatteras…
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From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne Book Review
Post Views: 25 From The Earth To The Moon by Jules Verne Book Review. Great book from 1865 that NASA copied to perpetrate the moon landing hoax. The book goes into great detail on creating “moon mission” spectacle. The announcement of “moon shot”. The planning, funding, building, and launching of “the capsule”. “Gun Club” president…
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Project Pope by Clifford D. Simak Book Review
Post Views: 36 Project Pope by Clifford D. Simak Book Review. Doctor Jason Tennyson is on the run from planet Gut Check. He’s a stowaway on the Wayfarer, a ship full of pilgrims. Destination: The Vatican. The End of Nothing houses the electronic pope. The listeners are astral travelers, revealing mysteries about other luminaries, employs…
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Heroes of the Plains by James William Buel Book Review
Post Views: 42 Heroes of the Plains by James William Buel Book Review This massive tome of ‘historical’ biographies includes every Western trope you have ever known. Published in 1883. It really is fun to read, a little tiresome after eleven hundred pages. The Mason author was tasked with making heroes out of all these…
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The Green Pearl by Jack Vance Book Review
Post Views: 37 Princess Glyneth is trapped in a tangent world. The Ska woman turns out to be a dud. Melancthe the witch is an empty frock. Aillas rules Troicinet with his sun, Dhrun. The Persilian Mirror portends a NEW KINGDOM. The green pearl is a curse to the touch. Aillas is forced to send…
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Thiaoouba Prophecy: The Golden Planet. : A True Report by the Author Who Was PHYSICALLY ABDUCTED to Another Planet by Michel Desmarquet book review – techno space
Post Views: 40 Abduction to the 9th Planet Book Review Regurgitated star trek corn chowder. Techno circus of universal materialism. Chosen people from category higher than you. Welcome to the golden planet. So bright, you gotta wear shades. I’m serious. The golden ninth planet is so bright, the epicene space gods require all visitors wear…
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The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald book review
Post Views: 34 Curdie is gifted the power of discernment by Irene’s silver haired grandmother living in the garret. Curdie sets out for the king’s castle. Curdie finds the King on his deathbed, Irene is desperate. The city is in default. The people in denial. Entire retinue of commie sellouts. The doctor is slowly killing…
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The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald book review
Post Views: 29 Princess Irene has a silvered haired grandmother living in the garret. Irene is given a ring that provides a thread of direction spun in the light of the moon by her grandmother. The thread leads Irene to Curdie who is trapped in the caves by the goblins in the depths of the…
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My Captivity by Fanny Kelly book review
Post Views: 27 I enjoyed it very much. The story is fake. Fanny Kelly describes one of her fellow emigrants as a daguerro artist. Her alleged “emigration” and subsequent capture commencing on or about May 17, 1864. I booted up circe machine to search FANNY KELLY – seeking to find daguerreotype of FANNY KELLY. Daguerro…
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Heroes of the Plains- Buel, James Williams. USA 1883. Check this illustrated guide. Corporate Science – Alphabet Inc.gov
Post Views: 27 Book review here: https://pepper.works/charms/heroes-of-the-plains-by-james-william-buel-book-review/
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Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S. Connell book review
Post Views: 27 Damn good book about G.A.C. George Armstrong Custer. Son of the Morning Star – glorious light of Lucifer. Roman flame cult – Secret society theater presents – Civil War followed by Indian removal. Native problem solver, Custer. A man at the bottom of his West Point class, given starring roll in war…
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Suldrun’s Garden by Jack Vance book review.
Post Views: 16 In this phantasy tale you will be charmed by the virgin sun goddess, Suldrun. She is locked away in a secret garden. Her purity and grace like tessellating dewdrops in the dawning sun. Alas, she must die. Her virginity is taken, her child is taken, her husband is taken, she hangs herself…
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Froissart’s Chronicles by Jean Froissart book review
Post Views: 14 This chronicle, if true, sets precedent for purge style retribution by enslaved peasants.Burn, rape, and pillage.England, France, and Spain.Kings, queens, and barons.Castles, knights, and squires.Fiefdom, serf, and noble.Ransom, rest, and relaxation. It’s the year 1300s. You own a castle. You didn’t die during childbirth. Besides subsistence farming, trapping, water fetching, hunting with…
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Waverley by Sir Walter Scott book review
Post Views: 11 Rich people are the best. This book is one of my favorite. The way they talk, fight battles, and present their fortune to familiar heirs, the three ermines passant. It’s true, these rich bastards have everything except experience, which can be purchased through officer entitlements in the King’s service, the dragoons. You…
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The Wine-Dark Sea by Patrick O’Brian book review
Post Views: 17 The doctor is addicted to cocaine, chewing the coca leaf. It gives him extra energy and focus that every Inca knows. In the high Andes you must chew the cud of the coca for survival, to open your soul to the thin mountain air, to give you strength TO ENDURE. RED BULL…
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The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley book review
Post Views: 10 When the witches speak you better listen. Especially if you’re a philandering priest, impregnating the buxom duchess who you seduce during Latin lessons. The witches will shriek and scream, strike a pose and expose themselves to their exorcists and onlookers who come from all around to see the Devils of Loudun. The…
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Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco book review
Post Views: 14 The androgynous virgin prostitute wears a muslin veil standing on a stone alter. The men of (insert impotent secret society name here) await their turn with Sophia. Sick, disgusting, sad, weak, men; like faggots of wood burning in a fire. Kissing each other’s ass to release The Kundalini, diddling each other’s lower…
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Blue Horizon by Wilbur Smith book review
Post Views: 20 The swashbuckling adventure and delights of:Rescuing women.Feeding women.Clothing women,Bathing women.Having sex w women. DO NOT ALLOW WOMEN to FIGHT YOUR WAR. Blue Horizon. Mount your steed. You are a well-to-do colonial prince Living on The Cape. Table Mountain Harbor South Africa. Dutch Invasion. You spot a flaxen-haired nymph. You rescue the downtrodden…
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They shall not regard their governors. Alphabet Inc.gov – Ahmawhan Ibad
Post Views: 25 Free for allBATTLE ROYALDON’T TAKE THE CHIPAmhawan Ibad House Divided WILL FALL They’re Going to Kill US. They Will Call US Witches. (Malleus Maleficarum book review forthcoming.) 12:25 MattSatan OneSatan TwoMissile System SOS – Synagogue of SatanUniversal Church Grave ConcernWEF Prison ConditionMilitary Vision Pre-Fab HomesKeep The Faith Roman CultureLatin Money Keep OUT…
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Isambard Kingdom BRUNEL by L.T.C. Rolt book review
Post Views: 15 He’s the man who built the railroads from London to Bristol, and then built massive steam powered ships from Bristol to New York, the Great Western, and LEVIATHAN. It killed the man. It made the man. It is the man. Brunel. Engineering skills with timber. Most of his structures have been replaced…
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The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies book review
Post Views: 19 Working for fake money is not recommended. Back in the day, it used to be an honest living, tramping around, building fires, riding trains, working on ships, knowing the hospitable places to bed down. SLEEPING IN PUBLIC IS ILLEGAL The thing is, only the downrighters made an issue of NO WORK. They…
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Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables. Book Review
Post Views: 17 Thirty and Three Cheers to Victor Hugo and Les Misérables. Not unlike Dickens’s, A Tale of Two Cities, Les Misérables examines the FAILURE of THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. You know the one, it’s the revolution where the The French People allegedly chopped the heads off their pitiful leaders. (Antoinette Marbles) Les Misérables plays…
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She Was Sitting in My Spot. Victor Hugo. Apocalypse Science.
Post Views: 16 I didn’t mean to chase her away. She promptly got up, packed her belongings, and vacated the premises. Before she left, WE had the opportunity to talk about Victor Hugo and Les Misérables, (book review forthcoming). After she indicated being a fan of the abridged play. I asked her the difference between…
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The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe book review
Post Views: 17 Is the Baron making fun of sportsmen? Yes.Is the Baron a liar? Yes.Is the Baron a German? Yes.Is the Baron a lizard? Yes.Is the Baron a swindler? Yes.Is this book a joy? Yes. Does this book occupy your time during tribulation? Yes.How many people took the experimental injection? All of the people.Do…
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Our Children’s Children by Clifford D. Simak book review
Post Views: 15 This alien invasion story was published in 1974. Predictive programs include: References to teletypes and news wire.Film cameras.Washington DC secretary hussies. When they arrive from the future with a trillion dollars worth of jewels, only the US and British governments can be trusted to wash the funds, slowly incorporating diamonds into market…
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Lost Horizon by James Hilton book review
Post Views: 11 Jolly good story about Shangri-La Monastery in Tibet mountains. Communal living in moderation. Away from all VACKED PEOPLE, away from incomprehensible CORPORATE CAPITAL system of fake money, away from FBI, away from corrupt LE, away from paid-off goon squad, away from stalker spook assassins, away from fake money forces of all kinds.…
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The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye by Jay Weidner and Vincent Bridges book review
Post Views: 40 I speak the language of the birds. Nobody understands what I’m saying. Why did gnostic men encode alchemical magick in stone carvings from the dark ages? The carvings are inferior to anything the Renaissance produced. Yet, Fulcanelli assures us the meaning is superior. Gothique is the shit. Is this true? Who cares?…
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Hunger (Sverre Lyngstad 1998 Translation) by Knut Hamsun book review
Post Views: 17 Is your miserable artistic lifestyle making you sick? Take the correct drugs. Straighten up your act. Even if you eat out of gutters, making miserable passes at the house maids, fumbling with their underclothes, amusing THE COMMANDER, that bastard can’t even loan me ten kroner. Being poor is an artistic choice. Sponsored…
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Clif High’s War Against The Elohim – Techno Space Religion
Post Views: 7 Here’s the setup. The Gods of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, The Elohim, are an off-world space gang that require human sacrifice, tributes of wine, gold, frankincense, and myrh. They were stoned most of the time. Huffing massive amounts of smoked organ meat. Brutal bastards that bullied the Essenes around Judea, and messed…
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Capturing the Light by Roger Watson book review
Post Views: 11 I wanted to know about photography and the discovery thereof. Fixing light to film, the perfect medium for programming and deceit. The Camera Obscura, the Camera Lucida, and tools used to control our fucked up reality. How were the “masters” able to achieve perfect scales and perspectives? My original thesis: Capturing the…
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Papillon by Henri Charriere Book Review
Post Views: 41 The last thing you want to see is a child wearing a face mask. Boogers from cute, button, nose, smeared against synthetic, fabric, face mask. You did it. For health. You believe corporate science, there will be no escape for you. Escape from prison planet. Papillion. This book is about prison escapes,…
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The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov book review. Techno space religion
Post Views: 7 The Science Fiction MUST COME TO AN END. Here’s a book about infinite power from alternate universes, the big bang, transsexual threesomes, lunar colonies, space ships, particle physics, church of science, and government/university garbage people, LIES, LIES, LIES. Put down your science fiction. You’ve had enough. Isaac Asimov believes NASA astronauts did…
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The Naked Bible by Mauro Biglino & Giorgio Cattaneo book review – Techno Space
Post Views: 9 Thank you Clif High for recommending this excellent TECHNO SNAKE book. I feel honored to label it thusly: Desperate attempt to avoid supernatural DESTRUCTION by fire. (High intensity laser beams mounted on fully operational Ruach landing craft and thermonuclear conflagration.) Roman Suns of the Snake trying to avoid complete annihilation. Father, bring…
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Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry book review
Post Views: 12 I relate to this book. How many men have locked themselves inside aluminum ships to traverse the skies? Glowing dials of instruments light up your cockpit, the vibrations of engine(s), the eddies of wind, the lights of St. Elmo’s Fire on your props, we remain transfixed to the glorious view of the…