Easily Distracted
Notes on the genre literature of 1760-2020
Sunday, November 25, 2018
The Prisoner in the Mask by Dennis Wheatley (1957)
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The Prisoner in the Mask by Dennis Wheatley (1957) Only Wheatley had the authorial confidence (or arrogance) to end a novel with the line...
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Sallust 8, Germany 0
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They Used Dark Forces [1964] is the eighth adventure of freelance spy Gregory Sallust. (Eighth in the internal chronology of the s...
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Reading Manly Wade Wellman (1903-1986)
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The week of Halloween this year I read seven books by Manly Wade Wellman. Wellman slips in close to sublimity in many stories and novels...
Tadzio & Giovanni
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....Later on, Tadzio lay in the sand resting from his swim, a white towel drawn under his right shoulder, his head on his bare arm. E...
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
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Quite a book for 1956. U.S. creep David whiles-away his time procrastinating like a Peter Pan narcissist in Paris, living off friends and in...
Thursday, November 8, 2018
Bury Him Darkly (1969) by John Blackburn
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Bury Him Darkly (1969) by John Blackburn is a UK thriller with strong horror and science fiction elements driving its plot forward. The bur...
Sunday, October 28, 2018
Re-reading: Blood of the Impaler (1989).
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Blood of the Impaler by Jeffrey Sackett (1989). * Still the same exciting and challenging novel I first read 29 Octobers ago. Sac...
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