Literary Reviews – Page 56

August 9, 2016

Review: Heroes, Joe Abercrombie

Rating: 5 out of 5 This must be the best of the four Abercrombie books I’ve read thus far. The book is a thrilling…

June 30, 2014

Evan Currie’s fourth book in the ‘Into the Black’ saga is out in about a week. With that in mind, I decided to reread…

June 29, 2014

I had the great pleasure of going to theatre yesterday — the play I saw in the Maddermarket Theatre was ‘Anne Boleyn’, written by…

June 20, 2014

I saw this film only recently, and while I am still considering some of what it showed in the story, I was more hoping…

June 18, 2014

A man did not need to understand the words to know what was being said. Music, like violence, crossed all languages. I have been…

February 17, 2014

I can remember reading ‘The Boys from Brazil’ sometime last year. I never thought much else of Ira Levin although I really enjoyed that…

February 16, 2014

I chose this book after my previous one because of the name. The name looked promising; I thought I had found a dramatic piece…

February 15, 2014

This book started out very slow — my thoughts on its quality ranging from one extreme to the other. After all, how can we…

January 23, 2014

Sean Michael Wilson is a person I have already commented on twice recently, in the posts on The Book of Five Rings and Hagakure….

January 15, 2014

In addition to the ‘The Book of Five Rings’ I described yesterday, Sean Michael Wilson has applied the same treatment to two other philosophical…