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#54 – Created The Destroyer, Warren Murphy BOOK REVIEW

You thought I’d read a couple of trashy Mack Bolan books about the USA’s vengeful black ops killing machine and then move on to some serious high-brow books, didn’t you? Probably thinking I’d read Taleb‘s Skin In The Game or …

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#53 – Murder Island, Don Pendleton’s Executioner BOOK REVIEW

“The world is full of bloodthirsty men, but not all of them are brutal hunters. And those who would betray their brothers, their allies or their country will have to deal with me” – Mack Bolan. Who is Mack Bolan? …

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Daygame Infinite review #4

Daygame Infinite has been out for six months now [1] and people are starting to form a mature opinion of it. I’ve already seen reviews one, two, and three. Now Nash from Days Of Game blog has written a fourth. …

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#52 – History of my Life (Vol.2), Casanova BOOK REVIEW

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill Regular readers of Anonymous Conservative’s excellent blog will be familiar with the competing mating strategies of r and K selection, or rabbits and wolves respectively. …

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#51 – History Of My Life (vol.1), Casanova BOOK REVIEW

Casanova is one of those characters who looms large in cultural history even though most people are not really familiar with the detail [1]. He is “that dude who wrote about all the women he banged” [2]. It’s quite inexplicable …

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#50 – The Countess Of Monte Cristo (vol. 1), Alexandre Dumas BOOK REVIEW

Obviously this isn’t written by Dumas, it’s merely credited to him to help sell the thing. I have a Forgotten Books reprint of the 1890s edition that was part of the “complete” works of Dumas released in thirty volumes. So, …

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#49 – Front Line Theatre, Heinz Konsalik BOOK REVIEW

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the title of this WWII book? Perhaps that the theatre of war it concerns is on the front line of the Eastern Front? Or maybe you look at the …

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#48 – The Mongol Conquests, Time Life BOOK REVIEW

The prize for dirtiest cunts in history is claimed, without shadow of a doubt, by the Mongols. For about three hundred years up until 1400 they ravaged an entire continent from the Pacific in the east to the Mediterranean to …

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#47 – Louise de la Valliere, Alexandre Dumas BOOK REVIEW

I was suitably forewarned, by no lesser authority than the introduction of this very volume, that the fourth of Dumas’ five volumes in the D’Artagnan Romances is the weakest link. So it turned out to be. Whereas the other parts …

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#46 – The Sword Of Fate, Dennis Wheatley BOOK REVIEW

Oh yes, this man just keeps knocking it out of the park! Many modern writers make their name with one recurring character in a series of books, be it the protagonist (Lee Child‘s Jack Reacher is one I like) or …

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