5/24/2023 0 Comments Out kirino book![]() ![]() ![]() Kirino has mastered a Thelma and Louise kind of graveyard humor that illuminates her stunning evocation of the pressures and prejudices that drive women to extreme deeds and the friendship that bolsters them in the aftermath. The complex yet riveting narrative seamlessly combines a convincing glimpse into the grimy world of Japan’s yakuza with a brilliant portrayal of the psychology of a violent crime and the ensuing game of cat-and-mouse between seasoned detectives and a group of determined but inexperienced criminals. Masako’s own search for a way out of the straitjacket of a dead-end life leads her, too, to take drastic action. The ringleader of this cover-up, Masako Katori, emerges as the emotional heart of Out and as one of the shrewdest, most clear-eyed creations in recent fiction. Natsuo Kirino’s novel tells a story of random violence in the staid Tokyo suburbs, as a young mother who works a night shift making boxed lunches brutally strangles her deadbeat husband and then seeks the help of her co-workers to dispose of the body and cover up her crime. ![]()
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![]() In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. ![]() A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Hp lovecraft the dream quest![]() ![]() The Necronomicon places it in Central Asia and says it is inhabited by a human corpse-eating cult.The Plateau of Tsang, referenced by Frank Belknap Long and other authors, may be a region of Leng. Abdul Alhazred describes it as a place where different realities converge, which might explain why its precise location cannot be pinned down. It is a cold arid plateau whose location seems to vary entirely according to different accounts. □ Leng is a fictional location created by H. ~ William Dyer , HPL: At the Mountains of Madness Leng, wherever in space or time it might brood, was not a region I would care to be in or near nor did I relish the proximity of a world that had ever bred such ambiguous and Archaean monstrosities as those Lake had just mentioned. A few daring mystics have hinted at a pre-Pleistocene origin for the fragmentary Pnakotic Manuscripts, and have suggested that the devotees of Tsathoggua were as alien to mankind as Tsathoggua itself. Mythologists have placed Leng in Central Asia but the racial memory of man-or of his predecessors-is long, and it may well be that certain tales have come down from lands and mountains and temples of horror earlier than Asia and earlier than any human world we know. ![]() Lovecraft □ For the Plateau of Leng from At the Mountains of Madness, see Leng (Antarctica) “ ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Xenophon conversations of socrates![]() ![]() The generals and common soldiers with whom Xenophon had to deal were not philosophic. ![]() How, then, was Xenophon a follower of Socrates? Socrates enjoyed leisurely discussions with philosophic or potentially philosophic men. Apparently against the advice of Socrates, Xenophon became a mercenary, joining a Persian army led by Cyrus the Younger, an experience he would later memorialize in the Anabasis. Yet, unlike Plato, who stayed in Athens and founded a philosophical academy, Xenophon chose a more active life, political and military. It is primarily from the writings of Xenophon and Plato that we learn of the speeches and deeds of Socrates. ![]() And as he did not know, he said, ‘Follow me, then, and learn.’ And from this time forth, Xenophon became a follower of Socrates.”īorn around 430 BCE and dying around 354 BCE, Xenophon did indeed become a “follower” of Socrates. And when he had answered him, he asked him again where men were made good and virtuous. “They say that Socrates met him in a narrow lane, and put his stick across it and prevented him from passing by, asking him where all kinds of necessary things were sold. In his Lives of Eminent Philosophers, the Greek biographer Diogenes Laertius reports how Xenophon came to be associated with Socrates. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of its earliest massive implementations was by Egyptians against the British occupation in the nonviolent 1919 Revolution. ![]() In its most nonviolent form (known as ahimsa or satyagraha) it could be said that it is compassion in the form of respectful disagreement.Ĭivil disobedience has been used in many well-documented nonviolent resistance movements in India (Gandhi's social welfare campaigns and campaigns for independence from the British Empire), in South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, and in peace movements worldwide. ![]() It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance. Civil disobedience is the active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of a government, or of an occupying power, without resorting to physical violence. ![]() 5/24/2023 0 Comments Steve alten books![]() ![]() ![]() In this sequel to The Loch and prequel to the upcoming MEG 5: Nightstalkers, New York Times best-selling author Steve Alten offers readers a crossover novel that combines characters from two of his most popular series. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. ![]() ![]() His first story, "The Monster-God of Mamurth" for Weird Tales in August 1926, which vulgarized the florid weird-science world of Abraham Merritt, only hinted at the exploits to come, though Hamilton found Science Fantasy a fertile vein, collecting this story and others in his first book, The Horror on the Asteroid & Other Tales of Planetary Horror (coll 1936), a volume which includes a vivid Horror-In-Sf tale, "The Man Who Evolved" (April 1931 Wonder Stories) (for details see Brain in a Box). With E E "Doc" Smith and Jack Williamson, he was one of the prime movers in the development of US sf, sharing with those writers in the creation and popularization of classic Space Opera as it first appeared in Pulp magazines from about 1928. ![]() (1904-1977) US author, married to Leigh Brackett from 1946 until his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() The display of this fervor has been channeled and distilled throughout time into one sacred object: the battle vest. The religious ferocity of Heavy Metal fandom is one of the most fervent in the history of subculture. Limited to 100 copies, only available direct from Sacred Bones.*** ***The artist-edition comes with all of the above and a battle vest starter pack consisting of 5 other exclusive patches including new designs for Aura Noir and Black Magic, and a hand-numbered and signed artist print photograph. Limited to 400 copies, only available direct from Sacred Bones.*** ***The limited-edition comes with a faux leather bound slipcase, a 7" featuring unreleased music from blackened thrashers Aura Noir and old-school heavy metallers Black Magic, a Defenders of the Faith patch, and a two sided poster. ![]() To celebrate the release we have limited edition battle vest starter packs. These deluxe full color art books are all hardcover and embossed. Defenders of the Faith is a collection of heavy metal photography by the artist Peter Beste. ![]() ![]() ![]() I finished out the month of July at the hotel so Fritz could find a replacement for me and I could announce my departure and collect my tips. I identify the Big Dipper, the Little Dipper, the Five Sisters, Cassiopeia, and the North Star, hoping my erudition about the night sky will preclude getting romantic. The only question is: How cheaply can I buy out? What will I have to pay him to let me go? If a man can’t collect on his investments he must admit to being a fool. Not even a miracle is going to get me home free from a 20-dollar date, even ( especially) one I never wanted. I wish quickly on the first one, but I know it won’t work. Since it is night time, it’s almost impossible to admire the view instead we start admiring stars. She divides her time between New York City and Maine. ![]() Shulman is the author of three other novels, the award-winning memoir Drinking the Rain, two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, and three children's books. ![]() The following is excerpted from Alix Kates Shulman's reissued novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, originally published in 1972 and considered today to be a classic work of fiction, born of the women's liberation movement. ![]() ![]() If the archaeology had not been in the forefront of the story, the book would have lost all of its attraction. The characters are pretty much one-dimensional, the dialog is not very interesting-almost humorless. well, I am not going to add a spoiler here, but suffice it to say, we never learn what it really is all about. ![]() There is faster-than-light space travel but isn't that in many other novels? The only exceptional futuristic concept is the. There is a giant space telescope, but there is only a hint as to its true purpose. ![]() I especially enjoy science fiction books that contain unique, futuristic concepts. So, this is the first book of The Academy series. This, of course, allows the author to extend the story into sequels. The entire story is a mystery, and even by the end of the book the puzzle is only partially solved. ![]() The best thing this book has going for it, is its focus on archaeology, and the deciphering of clues from ancient alien artifacts. This is a "hard science fiction" novel, with a well-defined plot and set of characters. ![]() |