Jun 20, 2021
Review: Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchet —
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered.…
Jun 19, 2021
Review: The Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin —
The Left Hand of Darkness is a masterpiece in Science Fiction. Ursula conducts a thought experiment with her readers, as described in her own words -…
Jun 19, 2021
Review: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky —
To be of a Karamazovian nature is to be able to contemplate both abysses at once, that of the loftiest and most noble abyss above us and that of the one beneath us, the lowest and foulest of human degradation and thought.…