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Monday, June 2, 2014

Mystery on Dead Man Reef by George Armin Shaftel

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All there is to love about pulp fiction, without the formulaic aftertaste John Gregg lands on the island of Puna-Puka, somewhere in the...
Friday, May 30, 2014

The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins

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A frustrating hodgepodge of the elementary and the arcane First of all, let me make it clear that I agree with Richard Dawkins on most ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Silas Marner by George Eliot

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Gets you in the end The first two chapters of Silas Marner are excellent. We are introduced to the title character, a mild-mannered, h...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Adventure’s Heart by Albert Dorrington

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As vapid and mediocre as its title Adventure’s Heart, a novella by Albert Dorrington, was originally published in the May 1, 1922 issu...
Friday, May 23, 2014

Jack Grey, Second Mate by William Hope Hodgson

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High seas adventure done right Jack Grey is the second mate on the steel sailing ship Carlyle, bound from San Francisco to Baltimore. ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Classic Science Fiction Stories by Frank Herbert

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Not of the same caliber as his novels I’m not a habitual reader of science fiction, but I’ve always loved the work of Frank Herbert. In...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

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Realism doesn’t need to be this boring Arkady Nikolaevich Kirsanov, a recent university graduate, returns to his parents’ farm in a rem...