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| Category | Arts | | Subject | Dining With Devils by Gordan Aalborg |
| Message | Dining with Devils is Gordan Aalborg’s sequel to The Specialist. While the former book mostly took place on Victoria Island in Canada this novel takes place in Tasmania in Australia. The main characters are the same however with a few new additions. One of these new additions is Teuge Kendall’s ex-wife Rose who through her own insanity becomes involved with the specialist. For even though the main characters believe him to be dead from cougar bite, he still lives to threaten his ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | The Fools Progress by Edward Abbey |
| Message | Today’s book is The Fools Progress by Edward Abbey. This book was interesting because it truly shows what the secular American lives for, nothing. The work is in many ways Abbey’s autobiography even though he used imaginary characters to tell his story. His is the fate of those who can not conform to reality. The book has two intermixed stories running side by side. The first is the present day and his trip from Arizona to West Virginia. And the second is the main characters ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | Black Sun by Edward Abbey |
| Message | I wish I could say that I had enjoyed the book that I’m talking about
today but if I said that I would be lying. The book of the day is
Edward Abbey’s, yes him again, Black Sun. This book does not take
place in the same timeline that the other two Abbey books I have
reviewed take place in but instead in another vision of our own world.This story can be best said to be a love story although a depressing and bleak view of love it is. The main character is a worker at a ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | Hayduke Lives! by Edward Abbey |
| Message | Today I am reviewing a book by an author that I have discussed
before. The book is Hayduke Lives! and the author is Edward Abbey. This book is the sequel to The Monkey Wrench Gang and it takes place much later in time. One interesting feature of the book is the fact that it is supposed to take place in the real world and so many of the characters in this book have read the previous book. The basic outline of the book is more ecoterrorism but it is gotten to by a different method than in ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey |
| Message | OK now before I get started with the book, I am a little tired tonight so the review may be a little hazy although not as hazy as Hayduke’s normal driving condition. The book I am discussing tonight is The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. The book is about people that have all the brains I associate with the environmental terrorist movement. The main characters are a group of people that through their actions do more harm to the environment than good although you won’t hear the ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | Towards Home by Carolyne Aarsen |
| Message | La livre du jour est Toward Home avec Carolyne Aarsen. This book deals with the issue of a Christian romance. Overall it is a decent book very homey and uplifting showing that even though a person may think that they know where there life should go God(and the author) knows better. It is very uplifting because it shows that hard work and caring for other people will get you somewhere in life as it does for the main female character a nurse who is struggling to make ends meet in a small town ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | State Scarlet by David Aaron |
| Message | The book that I read today was State Scarlet by David Aaron. This book was very depressing. It is the fictional story of what would happen if a terrorist stole a nuclear weapon. The story takes place in the nineteen eighties when the main conflict was between the US and the USSR. The main character is a US spy named Sean Gordon with assorted politicians on both sides playing major supporting roles. The reason the book is depressing is because it shows the problems that tit for tat has and ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | Crossing by Night by David Aaron |
| Message | This is a historical fiction about Elizabeth Park. Elizabeth park was a British secret agent in the prelude to the second world war. She was the agent who stole first the enigma code machine for the British and later the bombe which was a Polish prototype computer for codebreaking. This book was exteemly interesting and more so because it is based on a real person. The picture it presents of the diplomatic community however is not very diplomatic. The amazing thing is not how little they ... |
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| Category | Arts | | Subject | The Specialist by Gordon Aalborg |
| Message | This is a novel about a serial killer who thinks of himself as the specialist. He mostly kills young female cyclists in Tasmania and Victoria Island. The main character is a young woman named Kirsten whose sister Emma was killed by the monster. It gets more confusing when during the course of her spelunking she finds her sisters ring. The suspense in the novel is who the specialist is. Is it Teugue Kendall a writer who seems to good to be true, or is it Dr. Ralph Stafford a psychiatrist ... |
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| Category | Leisure & Lifestyle | | Subject | Introduction |
| Message | So here I am late at night looking at a computer screen deciding what to type, or even whether it is worth it to type an introduction. This Posting will be the uncommon one because it will not involve the discussion of a book that I have read recently and wish to analyze and comb through to discover what pearls of wisdom it contains. And all books even the worst written has some pearls of wisdom even if that pearl is that some people should not be allowed near paper to write. So if you are ... |
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