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Category: Literary Reviews

October 25, 2012

‘Live Not By Lies’, A. Solzhenitsyn

This is an interesting essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and I would recommend people to read it. You can find an English version here, or…

October 22, 2012

‘The Prophet’, K. Gibran

… let there be spaces in your togetherness. And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another, but make not…

October 15, 2012

Review: Kukai the Universal, Ryotaro Shiba

KÅ«kai was born in 774 in Sanuki Province, which faced the central provinces with the easternmost part of the Seto Inland Sea in between….

October 14, 2012

‘Throne of Blood’

I had the pleasure, well, theoretical pleasure since I took it up only because I thought it would go well with the present recovery…

October 5, 2012

Review: Hannibal, Nic Fields

I’ve recently come to read two of the Osprey Command series books (first on the Admiral, Yamamoto Isoroku, and now the Carthaginian general, Hannibal…

September 26, 2012

‘The Sword of Shannara’, T. Brooks

“We build too many walls to be completely honest with ourselves.” I was quite honestly disappointed by this book because I thought it might…

September 25, 2012

‘The Heart of Matter’, E. Currie

“She thought it was the east, actually, but now she thought of it, she wasn’t sure that the sun rose in the east here….

September 22, 2012

‘Into the Black’, E. Currie

“It’s what we do.” When speaking of science fiction, the usual names that come to my mind would be Clarke and Asimov. With some…

September 20, 2012

‘How to Run the World’, P. Khanna

“The post-Cold War era will be remembered for the rapid emergence of a postmodern Middle Ages — a world without any single power in…

September 19, 2012

‘Map of a Nation’, R. Hewitt

“Many Hanoverian officers and soldiers turned to drink while working in north and west Scotland, and the Chief Engineer there was forced to apologise…

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