Gore vidal live from golgotha6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Christopher Hitchens described the book as a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity". John Rechy reviewing the novel for the Los Angeles Times wrote that "If God exists and Jesus is His son, then Gore Vidal is going to hell". The author has been called a "blasphemer" for portraying " Saint Paul as a huckster and pederast and Jesus a buffoon". The title of the novel alludes to the fact that the author "made sport of the notion of television coverage of the Crucifixion, as the kind of thing that would happen only in contemporary America". ![]() Told from the perspective of Saint Timothy as he travels with Saint Paul, the 1992 novel's narrative shifts in time as Timothy and Paul combat a mysterious hacker from the future who is deleting all traces of Christianity. ![]() Live from Golgotha: The Gospel according to Gore Vidal is a novel by Gore Vidal, an irreverent spoof of the New Testament. ![]()
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Babel 17 by samuel r delany6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Here she hopes to “…find out who, or what, in the Universe thinks that way.”īut her plan soon unravels when she realizes a traitor is in their midst, one step ahead and ready to spin their ship and operation out of control. With her ticket punched and team recruited, she heads to the War Yards at Armsedge, the purported setting of the next attack. However, Rydra discovers that the code - dubbed Babel-17 - is in fact a language, one so compact that it has her spooked. Cracking them may yield the locations of imminent attacks, enabling the Alliance to foil their efforts before they occur. All the more reason to be prepared for the unexpected…if you can read between the lines.įor their part, the Alliance has taken every precaution to do just that, commissioning poet and language expert Rydra Wong to decipher what they believe to be coded transmissions sent between enemy Invaders. ![]() Language is a tool so powerful that in the wrong hands it can be used as a weapon. ![]() Middle ground katie kacvinsky6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite previously wanting nothing more than to be with Justin, Maddie chooses not to go with him to the east coast when the President asks him to relocate.The President wants Justin to help set up a nation-wide face-to-face school option (how is he qualified to create a template for a nation-wide education system?).She (Maddie’s mom) is friends with the President.When Maddie & Justin see each other in custody they don’t act as concerned about each other as they should.When Maddie’s parents are in danger from the police, her father is willing to take a stand but tells her mom to get in the cop car so she would safe (huh?). ![]() Maddie begins to doubt her previously rock solid relationship with Justin (check the end of book #2) within the short time since she left Eden.Justin all but ignores Maddie instead of including her as usual.When they make it to Portland the next day, neither Justin nor Maddie’s parents are anxiously awaiting to see her to visually confirm that she is fine.The members of the resistance who come to save Maddie & Jax decide to go home for the night rather than on to Portland, even though it is supposedly important to get there as soon as possible.Jax (laid back artist) reveals he is the second coming of Rambo.Justin & Maddie’s father abandon Maddie to go to Portland. ![]() The Price of Fear by Joel Eisner6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() I received a letter from the Fox legal department informing me that they had no rights to either show anymore. I wrote to 20th Century Fox to see about getting permission to write the book and while I was at it I asked about Batman. I had been running the International Irwin Allen Fan Club (for those who don't know he produced the TV series), it started out as the LIS Club but I increased it to cover all of Irwin's other shows, in particular Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. I actually wanted to write a Lost in Space book not a Batman book. We included Batman as one of the sitcoms, which to me it is and will always be an action sitcom. is bringing it back as a paperback sometime this Winter). It was a reference book entitled Television Comedy Series: An episode guide to 153 Situation Comedies in Syndication (it is long out of print, but the publisher McFarland & Co. ![]() JE: I co-wrote my first book with a friend in 1982 (it was published in 1984). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reading about reading may not be as satisfying as reading about everything else, but it's a useful prod in the right direction. It's all enjoyable enough, but by the end of Hill's book, you're eager to throw it aside and start tackling all the works of genius she talks about. Roald Dahl comes across as a cantankerous grump, Edith Sitwell is described as "Queen Elizabeth the First reincarnated" and Ian Fleming makes a suave cameo, leaning against a mantelpiece with a cigarette holder in one hand and a cocktail beside him, all "high cheekbones" and "high style". The result is a discursive ramble of great charm. "Oh good, here's Possum!" she overhears as a young writer entering a party alongside an elderly TS Eliot. After rummaging for a lost title in her book-packed house, Hill vowed to spend a year reading only the titles on her shelves. ![]() In her long career as a novelist, Hill has rubbed shoulders with lots of literary heavyweights. Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home. There's a fair bit of meandering as she documents what is on her shelves and uses it as a chance to reminisce, but Hill's style is vivid and measured and the book is both a passionate reminder of the importance of reading and a revealing glimpse of a writer's life. ![]() The bolter the pursuit of love6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Accept, for a start, the absolute glamour of the set of Mitford sisters, who seemed able to write their own destinies in their childhood and never deviate from them: Diana, the beauty Unity, the fascist who became an intimate of Hitler's Nancy, the writer Jessica, the communist who ran away to the Spanish Civil War Deborah, the Duchess and Pamela, who 'wanted to be a horse'.ĭespite all the elegant brio of her style, Nancy's letters reflect her deep dissatisfaction with the unyielding stuff of reality. Accept it, and it is a wonderful fantasy, rich in escapist possibilities. ![]() Look at it too closely, and it breaks down into the cold destructiveness of snobbery. You have to be prepared to close your eyes, to dive backwards, to find any joy in the fairytale romance and elitist humour of her work. ![]() That sense she had of nothing interesting being in front of her gave her charm a closed, brittle air. And a similar charge could be levelled at Nancy herself. She 'belonged to the late Twenties, that period now deader than the dodo,' she wrote of the Bolter in The Pursuit of Love. NANCY MITFORD seemed like a creature of another time, long before her death in 1973. ![]() ![]() ![]() The insights revealed in this book will help you understand some of the factors that may be sabotaging your efforts to make more space. Unlocking some of the meaning your possessions may hold can free you to say goodbye to what you no longer need, whilst keeping your precious memories intact. The secret to creating a calm and nurturing home is to uncover the psychological reasons that lie beneath your clutter, and to understand that what is blocking you in your home and your life is often the key to moving forwards. In The Secret Life of Clutter, ten intimate and touching stories take you on a profound journey as people discover what their cluttered homes reveal about their lives, and make life-changing shifts when they start to let go and move on. The spaces we inhabit and the objects within them reflect many aspects of our lives and our inner selves. Our homes have fascinating stories to tell. When you get clear about why your clutter is holding you back, you can finally let it go and create the home you love. If you don't want your possessions to possess you, then this is a book you must read' Graham Allcott ![]() 'A thoughtful and surprisingly emotional account of our complex relationship with stuff. ![]() Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() The Impossible Fairy Tale opens in 1998 in a city outside Seoul. Shanbhag has earned this lofty comparison. In Shanbhag's novel, translated from Kannada by Srinath Perur, the gender dynamic is ghachar ghochar – irredeemably tangled – hardly as benign as the narrator might initially suggest. "Superfluous men" might have an additional, far darker meaning in Bangalore, which has recently seen a spike in the number of missing women. Our unnamed narrator is a superfluous man of the type Chekhov might recognize: a sensitive being made redundant by his uncle's wild success. ![]() What does it mean to transplant "Chekhovian" from late 19th-century Russia to contemporary south India? Ghachar Ghochar is a domestic novel that seems almost timeless in its lack of "rising Asia" talk a few allusions suggest the era of economic liberalization, but the business by which the narrator's family has made its wealth hardly screams "new India." They sell spices – or, the narrator's uncle does they live off him. Suketu Mehta deems Vivek Shanbhag "an Indian Chekhov" – let's entertain this claim for a moment. By Vivek Shanbhag, translated by Srinath Perur, Penguin, 128 pages, $20 ![]() Corto maltese frank miller6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() Corto and his friends will get tangled up in these conflicts and will have to choose sides. For a thousand pounds, Corto accepts Gold Mouth’s proposal to take weapons and money to the Cangaceiros led by Sureshot, rebels fighting in the Brazilian Sertão against the big landholding oil tycoons and their henchmen. Sure shot Samba: At Itapoa, Corto, Tristan, and Steiner meet Bocca Dorata, the great voodoo sorceress who raised Morgana and initiated her into black and white magic. The treasure hunt can now continue on its way towards Itapoa. ![]() Corto exposes Milner and beats him at poker he wins and Milner loses his life. But in Bahia, a lawyer by the name of Milner tries to kill Tristan. She has their father’s notes concerning the lost continent of Mû, the very papers Tristan glimpsed in his dreams even the Indians have predicted that his fate lies there. Rendez-Vous in Bahia: Corto Maltese, Steiner, and Tristan Bantam sail for Bahia to meet Morgana, Tristan’s half-sister. At Paramaribo, in the sultry heat of Dutch Guyana, Corto finds himself entangled in a sordid tale about a stolen inheritance, while surrounded by such strange characters as Kerster, an unscrupulous lawyer Jeremiah Steiner, a former university professor, and Madame Java, “hotel” manager and expert knife thrower… ![]() The secret of Tristan Bantam: Tristan, who has inherited precious papers that tell of the lost kingdom of Mû, has a dream that portends an apparently incomprehensible fate. ![]() Cj box series of books6/26/2023 ![]() It was also named as a New York Times Notable Book. ![]() Open Season was published in 2001 and won him the Anthony Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Macavity Award, and the Barry Award for the Best Debut Novel of the year. His writing style not only gives you the feel of this location, but also is packed with action and the life of a cowboy. His knowledge and familiarity with the area really shines in the book series as many people praise the way that you can really feel the location when reading this series. ![]() He made his debut in 2001 with Open Season and the series has captured the imagination of readers ever since.īox himself was born and raised in Wyoming, the same place where the Joe Pickett series is set. Box has made with the Joe Pickett series. There are few authors who have made quite the impact that C.J. ![]() As an Amazon Associate I earn money from qualifying purchases ![]() |