Book Review: The Age of Miracles
Can waiting to die drive a narrative? While the larger stakes of Karen Thompson Walker’s story The Age of Miracles are high, it’s the small things that really matter.
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Book Review: The Dark Tower I
King’s 2003 revision was badly needed. This revision sets the story in a way that the reader can far better appreciate what happens in books two and beyond.
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Radio Drama: The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray remains a great example of Gothic fiction. The only novel ever written by Oscar Wilde, this book published for the first time in July 1890.
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Bloodborne: Drawn Into Its Corrupted World
And that’s how I entered Yharnam: alone, confused, and threatened. My plight rarely improved unless I beckoned another hunter. Unless that hunter turned out to be a Vileblood adversary.
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Meet the M Duda Staff
A spotlight never shines on my team’s efforts. They work diligently behind the scenes. Their support make the books possible.
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Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth
A post-apocolyptic tale with a bizarre and twisted plot, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream” will keep you tensely riveted to the edge of your chair. And as an interesting side-note, Harlan Ellison voice acts in this radio drama. Can you guess which character?
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Revisiting Book Reviews
This story starts off fast and only continues to build tension and, finally, horror. The book is really two stories, a backstory remembered and current events. But everything comes together for the main character, Malorie, at the end for a satisfying conclusion.
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Radio Drama: The Lord of the Rings
One of my favorite fantasies, The Lord of the Rings, was dramatized for radio in 1979. The Mind’s Eye has produced over twenty quality adaptations of story greats such as Alice in Wonderland and Homer’s The Odyssey. And like these other tales, J.R.R. Tolkien’s work is sure to please your attentive ear.
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Book Review: The Polygamist
But it’s these travels and Omar, himself, that soon conjured up a different simile as I turned more pages: This story is like a flower.
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All In: A USMC Veteran’s Review Site
It’s been a pleasure for me to visit his blog. His book reviews are to the point. He reads for the pleasure of enjoying a book.
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