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The Bastard’s Grimoire by Joseph Hirsch
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** I was given a review copy by NetGalley **
This book is set in and around the city of Koln in an alternate Medieval age where demons and magic abound. The premise of the story being that an evil wizard enchants a young man forcing him to embark on a campaign of rape to impregnate women (and men) with demon seed forcing them to give birth to demons. His antagonists are a
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“Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot”
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“Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying.”
― Against a Dark Background
― Against a Dark Background
“My idea of God is a not divine idea. It has to be shattered from time to time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?..”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.”
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Phil On The Hill
Feb 15, 2015 03:17PM
You need a bigger challenge than 50 books. I think 100 would be better!
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