In this book Abbey tells the story of a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world. The main character is Jack Burns a anarchist cowboy who wants to rescue his son from the city and its army. The army is controlled by a very insane but very authoritarian former officer who has reintroduced many of the less savory aspects of militarism and tyranny to the world. In many ways I found this the most enjoyable of Abbey’s books because his writing fits better in a post-apocalyptic world ...
So Vile a Sin is one of many books in the New Adventures of Doctor who, it was written by Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman. This book takes place near the end of the thirtieth century. Mankind has not only left earth, it has conquered much of the area around earth. In order to better rule its territories it has reinstituted an empire with nobility. It is into this setting that the time traveler Doctor Who and his aides return. It seems that the two main aids in this book who are Roz ...
The Horse Tamer’s Challenge is a romance set in the old west written by Gordon Aalborg. The story takes place on the great plains of North America during the time when the United States was fighting the Sioux War. The male protagonist in this romance is Luc L’Hirondelle a metis man who knows the frontier and the tribes that dwell in it. Metis is a French term for someone who has both European and American Indian ancestry. The female protagonist is Rebecca Bennett, a woman from St. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...