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OYGimel rated Four Past Midnight: 5 stars

Stephen King: Four Past Midnight (Hardcover, 1990, Viking)

Four Past Midnight by Stephen King

Past midnight, something happens to time, that fragile concept we employ to order our sense of reality. It bends, stretches, …

OYGimel rated Foundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation / The Stars, Like Dust / The Naked Sun / I, Robot: 4 stars

Isaac Asimov: Foundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation / The Stars, Like Dust / The Naked Sun / I, Robot (1983)

Foundation / Foundation and Empire / Second Foundation / The Stars, Like Dust / The Naked Sun / I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

OYGimel rated Caves of Steel (The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition): 5 stars

Isaac Asimov: Caves of Steel (The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition) (1986, Doubleday)

Caves of Steel (The Isaac Asimov Collection Edition) by Isaac Asimov

"A Del Rey book."

It was bad enough when Lije Baley, a simple plainclothes cop, was ordered to solve …

OYGimel rated Make Room! Make Room!: 3 stars

Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room! (Paperback, 1994, Bantam)

Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison

A gangster is murdered during a blistering Manhattan heat wave. City cop Andy Rusch is under pressure to solve the …

OYGimel rated The K-Factor: 4 stars

Harry Harrison, Harry Harrison: The K-Factor (Paperback, 2008, IndyPublish)

The K-Factor by Harry Harrison, Harry Harrison

OYGimel rated Treatise on Good Works: 5 stars

Martin Luther, David W. Sloan, Lawrence A. Clayton: Treatise on Good Works (Paperback, 2017, Vision Press)

Treatise on Good Works by Martin Luther, David W. Sloan, Lawrence A. Clayton

OYGimel rated The cloud of unknowing.: 5 stars

The cloud of unknowing. by HarperCollins Spiritual Classics

OYGimel rated The Novel of the White Powder: 4 stars

Arthur Machen: The Novel of the White Powder (Paperback, Read Books)

The Novel of the White Powder by Arthur Machen

OYGimel rated The beckoning fair one: 5 stars

Oliver Onions: The beckoning fair one (2004, Dover Publications)

The beckoning fair one by Oliver Onions

OYGimel rated The Outsider, and Others: 5 stars

The Outsider, and Others by H. P. Lovecraft

OYGimel rated The Novel Of The Black Seal: 4 stars

Arthur Machen: The Novel Of The Black Seal (Paperback, Kessinger Publishing)

The Novel Of The Black Seal by Arthur Machen

OYGimel reviewed The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Oxford world's classics)

Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1998, Oxford University Press)

This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously …

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3 stars

I appreciate this story for what it is - the first specimen of the Gothic Horror that I adore so much, a fundamental work in the history of literature. That being said, today it just seems goofy as all heck. Nonetheless, good for educational purposes

OYGimel rated The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch: 4 stars

Philip K. Dick: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Paperback, 2013, Gollancz)

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

OYGimel rated Ubik (Spanish Edition): 4 stars

Philip K. Dick: Ubik (Spanish Edition) (Paperback, Spanish language, 2004, Ediciones Urano)

Ubik (Spanish Edition) by Philip K. Dick

Ubik, written in 1966 and published in 1969, is one of Philip K. Dick's masterpieces (The Three Stigmata of Plamer …