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Engrossing post apocalyptic book that told entirely in a vividly degenerated post-English that the reader is left to decipher as …
Native Son (1940) is a novel written by the American author Richard Wright. It tells the story of 20-year-old Bigger …
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym …
I don't usually read horror but I have enjoyed other surreal horror books in the past. This novel was one of the most unusually cozy novels I have read given the surreal nature; like an anti-Lovecraftian. You read on with anticipation and curiosity rather than dread.
The Third Policeman is a novel by Irish writer Brian O'Nolan, writing under the pseudonym Flann O'Brien. It was written …
The Children of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a direct sequel …
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being murdered, …
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being murdered, …
G. K. Chesterton: The Man Who Was Thursday (1908)
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. The book has been described …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare is a 1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton. …
I don't generally like books saturated in the British class system but I very much enjoyed this book for the language, humour, philosophy, surrealism and generally fun it presented. You do benefit from being somewhat acquainted with the period and 19th English literature to enjoy it but even most readers who have only read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy could enjoy this book.
