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“Why follow me to higher ground? Lost as you swear I am Don’t throw away your basic needs Ambiance and vanity”

Great Jones Street by Don Delillo

Smoky Joe's Cafe by Bryce Courtenay

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Junkie Quatrain by Peter Clines

The Eye of the World by Robert Jones

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny

The Earth is Weeping by Peter Cozzens

December 6, 2021 by vel veeter 3 Comments

Great Jones Street – 3/5 Stars This is an early Don Delillo novel that is ostensibly about a rock musician who seems to be in his mid-to-late 30s, living in a hotel on Great Jones Street in New York City. I don’t know a ton about New York, but I did happen to see Great Jones Street this summer, and these days, it’s a relatively bland and corporatized street in lower Manhattan. In the novel of the novel, it’s a little more sinister feeling, but […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:504 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Bryce Courtenay, Chinua Achebe, Dante, Don DeLillo, Mary Webb, Peter Clines, Peter Cozzens, Robert Jones, roger zelazny ·
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Forever looking for my Anti-hero…

Gabriel's Inferno by Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel's Rapture by Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel's Redemption by Sylvain Reynard

Gabriel's Promise by Sylvain Reynard

The Prince by Sylvian Reynard

July 22, 2021 by chelz.hawk Leave a Comment

This is a review of an entire series. The summaries of the later books may spoil certain aspects of the preceding books. Reader beware.

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: angst, Dante, irony, professor kink, Romance, Series, Sylvain Reynard, Sylvian Reynard

chelz.hawk's CBR13 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: angst, Dante, irony, professor kink, Romance, Series, Sylvain Reynard, Sylvian Reynard ·
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A trip through Dante’s Inferno

January 26, 2014 by Valyruh 2 Comments

   As a true lover of Dante’s Divine Comedy, I must confess that Brown’s choice of inspiration for his fourth Langdon novel hit just the right spot for me. While some readers may be bored by his lengthy descriptions of Dante’s cantos on the odyssey from Inferno and Purgatory to Paradise, I wanted more. Some readers may find his near tour-guide-style descriptions of Florence and Istanbul to be a divergence from the plot, but I was entranced and nearly salivating at the chance to visit […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Dante, Florence, genetic engineering, Istanbul, Malthus, overpopulation

Valyruh's CBR6 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, History, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Dante, Florence, genetic engineering, Istanbul, Malthus, overpopulation ·
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