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| Kay Nolte Smith's second novel takes place off-Broadway, a small independent theatre attempting to stage a production which runs afoul of some corrupt union officials and gangsters. One has to have some tolerance for Objectivist-influenced characteri ...more | |
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| There's a lot to like in this book (and as a union member I certainly share a lot of its biases), but the author's scattershot accounts and unsystematic anecdotes often left me without a sense of the 'history' in question. Perhaps that is best left t ...more | |
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| Nolte Smith's first outing, a well-done mystery (which segues into a trial case). Characters are reasonably intriguing though I'm going to take for granted the courtroom stunts are legal. Weirdly, the villain in the case is almost a Rand/Ditko/Harris ...more | |
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| Space-opera with a literary bent, well-done and interesting to read although the worldbuilding was completely opaque to me. | |
"Thank you to S&S and Goodreads for giving me an e-ARC in a giveaway!
The more I think about this book the less I liked it. It’s just got none of the claustrophobic decadence I love about The King in Yellow (nor the same kind of deeply unreliable dyst" Read more of this review » |
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Michael Norwitz
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| A queer, kinky story reflecting on Chambers' "The King in Yellow" sounds tailor made for me, but I couldn't get to the halfway mark in the book. The main character's depression (which among other things has interfered with her sex life with her partn ...more | |
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| A now-isolated (presumably) island, referred to as Area X, manifests odd phenomena, and a series of expeditions are sent in to explore and explain it. The unnamed protagonist is a member of the twelfth such. While the novel starts off intriguing, the ...more | |
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| The title is accurate, as a character who works at a matchmaking company arranging romantic matches for psychopaths, and ends up having her own very personal encounter as psychopathy intervenes in her own emotional life. While the protagonist is no d ...more | |
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| I'm not quite sure how to categorise the book ... it's not QUITE Romantasy, because there's no magic at all in the novel, although it takes place in some sort of alternate world where the vast city (-state?) of Olympus is run by thirteen quite human ...more | |
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| Greenblatt provides a detailed biography of Poggio Bracciolini, the man who rediscovered Lucretius' On The Nature of Things, and provides an intriguing look into the world in which he resided (the world of the 15th century Catholic church, which he p ...more | |
“You get work however you get work, but people keep working in a freelance world (and more and more of todays world is freelance), because their work is good, because they are easy to get along with and because they deliver the work on time. And you don’t even need all three! Two out of three is fine. People will tolerate how unpleasant you are if your work is good and you deliver it on time. People will forgive the lateness of your work if it is good and they like you. And you don’t have to be as good as everyone else if you’re on time and it’s always a pleasure to hear from you.”
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