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October Wrap Up

Three Farmers on their way to a Dance by Richard Powers

Candles Burning by Michael McDowell and Tabitha King

Dead Men Can't Complain by Peter Clines

The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

November 3, 2021 by vel veeter 1 Comment

Three Farmers on their Way to a Dance – 4/5 Stars This is Richard Powers’s first novel, and like a lot of first novels (he was 26 when he published it) it’s both good and precocious in various ways. The novel itself follows a few different threads, and ends up being similarly structured to a few other Powers novels. One thread involves a narrator with the last name P who is researching a photograph and learning about stories from Europe right up to and during […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Clive Barker, Michael McDowell and Tabitha King, Peter Clines, richard powers

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:439 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Clive Barker, Michael McDowell and Tabitha King, Peter Clines, richard powers ·
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Late October

Empire of Necessity by Greg Grandin

Friday by Robert A Heinlein

The Late Mattia Pascal by Luigi Pirandello

Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert

November 1, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Empire of Necessity – 5/5 Stars Grandin begins his book with a short retelling of the Herman Melville novella “Benito Cereno” about a slave rebellion on slaving vessel in 1799. In the novella, the ship is happened upon by another trade vessel where the captain Delano talks with Benito Cereno, the one surviving former crewmate, now held hostage in order to assure safe passage. Delano, not really seeing the Black crew and imprisoned slaves as capable of such a subterfuge, never really understands he’s being […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: Frank Herbert, Greg Grandin, Luigi Pirandello, robert a heinlein

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:437 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: Frank Herbert, Greg Grandin, Luigi Pirandello, robert a heinlein ·
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The Wolf’s Hour – Robert McCammon (1989)

The Wofl's Hour by Robert McCammon

October 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

World War II! Nazis! Spies! A weirdly large amount of sex! Werewolves! Russians! This book is all of the above and mo…! Wait, no. It’s all of the above. This is a book where Robert McCammon had a great idea for a spy novel, and seemed to take it seriously enough to where it’s never quite farcical, allowing the premise to add whatever level of farce was needed, and not the plot itself. The novel itself is about a Russian-born, British spy whose knowledge of […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Robert McCammon

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:433 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Robert McCammon ·
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American Carnage by Tim Alberta (2019) and Delusions of Crowds by William Bernstein (2021)

American Carnage by Tim Alberta

Delusions of Crowds by William Bernstein

October 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

American Carnage – 4/5 Stars I really did not know if I wanted to read this book or not given how much of this I lived. But what works for this book is that it catalogues a series of internal strifes among Republicans and Conservatives, keeps that focus on politicians and prominent thinkers, and avoids the American voters as much as possible. Why this helps things: for one, looking around on any given day, I am reminded of some very deeply selfish motivations among my […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Tim Alberta, William Bernstein

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:432 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Tim Alberta, William Bernstein ·
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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen (2021)

Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen

October 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

So this is the latest Jonathan Franzen novel, and what I can say about it is that it’s definitely a Jonathan Franzen novel. I think all of his novels are definitely Jonathan Franzen novel, but he’s one of those writers who generates a lot of preconceived notions (some fair; some not), but he’s been pretty consistent. I highly recommend that anyone who likes Jonathan Franzen, anyone who doesn’t like Jonathan Franzen but is willing to be have that idea challenged, and anyone who likes Jonathan […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: jonathan franzen

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:430 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: jonathan franzen ·
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Hell’s Angels – Hunter S Thompson (1966)

Hell's Angels by Hunter S Thompson

October 19, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Well there are times when this book is really interesting, especially as a critique of media-narratives and government overreach. And there’s times where the author (quoting and not quoting various Hell’s Angels) sure does spend a lot of time talking about rape, and not really making salient points. It’s a kind of bizarro world version of critiques of use of rape charges being used against Black men, and there might actually be some validity to the specific over-prosecution of Hell’s Angels by California police. If […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: Hunter S Thompson

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:429 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: Hunter S Thompson ·
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