Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten books of fiction published in 2022. It is a portrait - sometimes direct, sometimes refracted - of a man realizing that his career, combined with his powerful imagination, has taken him far from his morals." In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews deemed it Darnielle's best novel to date. The New York Times called the book a "confident, creepy novel." NPR said, " Devil House is not a novel about karma or comeuppance. Such is the question at the heart of Devil House, the masterful third novel from Mountain Goats singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The novel debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List on February 13 at #7, staying on the list for two weeks. The novel is set largely in the California towns of Milpitas and San Luis Obispo, where Darnielle was raised. Devil House is John Darnielles most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a. Darnielle uses metafiction to tell Devil House's story. It depicts true crime author Gage Chandler working on an unsolved double homicide committed in the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, further discussing the moral implications that arise as a result of working in the genre. Devil House is a 2022 novel by American singer-songwriter and author John Darnielle.
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Judah Ben-Hur is a Jewish prince of Jerusalem who is descended from a royal family of Judaea son of Ithamar enslaved by the Romans and freed by Quintus Arrius, a Roman warship commander, who also adopts Judah as his son. The Count of Monte Cristo was the inspiration for Ben-Hur the main character Edmond Dantes is falsely accused, escapes his imprisonment and seeks vengeance on those responsible for his imprisonment. The specific meaning of "Hur" is unclear among other possibilities, it may mean "something white" or "hollow or depressed ground". In the King James Version Bible, referring to Solomon's district leaders, he is mentioned as ".the son of Hur.", confirming he was 'Judah son of Hur'. Wallace wrote that he chose the name Ben-Hur "because it was biblical, and easily spelled, printed and pronounced." The name appears once in the Bible ( Hebrew: בן־חור), as the name of one of King Solomon's twelve district governors (1 Kings 4:8). Judah encounters Jesus Christ and becomes a Christian. The book covers the character's adventures and struggle against the Roman Empire as he tries to restore honor to his family's name after being falsely accused of attacking the Roman governor. Judah Ben-Hur, shortened to Ben-Hur, is a fictional character, the title character and protagonist from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Nearly eighty years later, we are still talking about this book. An eight-hundred-page treatise on ontology which, somehow, became widely read-or at least widely talked about. This book is the defining monument of that school. He did everything: writing novels and plays, founding and editing a journal, engaging in political activism, and pioneering a philosophical school: existentialism. Jean-Paul Sartre was the defining intellectual of his time, at least on the European continent. It has everything to attract a self-styled intellectual: a reputation for difficulty, a hefty bulk, a pompous title, and the imprimatur of a famous name. I went crazy trying to read that thing.” Ever since that memorable description, this book has held a special allure for me. Being-in-myself, being-for-myself, being-of-myself, being-across-myself, being-by-myself. “I had to read this in college,” he told me. In the Heat: Elche… on Alicante & the Island of…Ģ023: New Year… on In the Heat: Elche & …īeing and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre Jaca: A Slightly Uns… on A Highly Unsuccessful Jou… Reflections on Readi… on Ancient Cities: Istanbul Kings of the Wyld is gritty and rough around the edges, where adventurers are just as interested in slaying girls in the bedroom as they are monsters on the trail.Īfter all, what’s the point of being a famous rocksta…eh … Mercenary Band, if you can’t pull the chicks (or dudes)? The classic tale revolves around a group of adventurers embarking on quests for the greater good of the world, slaying all types of familiar monsters straight out of the Monster’s Manual.īut unlike classic D&D tales, where heroes are role models, ladies are virtuous and most monsters are evil, Eames’ paints a tale of Sex, Drugs, and Shenanigans! Kings of the Wyld is undoubtedly a D&D (or Pathfinder) story. Their personas, larger than life.Īnd there is no other band more famous than Mother Saga! The story is set in a world, where successful mercenary bands (adventuring parties) are akin to modern-day rockstars. Nicholas Eames’ debut book, Kings of the Wyld, is a wyld adventure from start to finish. When Irene and Francisco go there to investigate, it turns out that they are at the wrong place at the wrong time. There is the mysterious case of a young girl, Evangelina Ranquileo, who suffers from mystical fits which are said to give her healing powers. It does not matter that Irene´s fiancé is an army captain: each time Francisco accompanies her on a magazine assignment, he falls more deeply in love with her." Irene Beltrán, a reporter, comes from a wealthy background Francisco Leal, a young photographer secretly engaged in undermining the military dictatorship, is strongly attracted by her beauty. "Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for the sake of justice and truth. Of Love and Shadows is another book to love. I have only read Island Beneath the Sea, which is slightly different from her other books, being more based on historical events during the Haitian revolution. She also includes and dedicates her books to women and their stories. They are mostly based on her own experience and historical events. Perhaps mostly known for The House of the Spirits, she has written numerous books. Isabel Allende is a beloved and well-known author. Homer’s poem churns on the recklessness of murderous, egomaniacal men. Comprehending everything here is a task, but at the center of “The Iliad” is very clear: the horrors of war. Or to know that the city-states, which comprise the Greek coalition opposing Troy, get several names - “Achaeans,” “Argives,” “Danaans,” deployed seemingly at random, all mean the same thing. Or to accept gods as all-powerful actors as well as audience members subject to fate. It’s on us to keep two names straight even if they differ by a single letter (Chryseis, daughter of Chryses). Modern-day readers may believe that they’ll need body armor to meet the barrage of challenges awaiting them in “The Iliad.” Exploring Homer’s 3,000-year-old, nearly 16,000-line epic poem, which details events that (probably) unfolded during the Trojan War, feels appropriately like engaging in battle. For the rest, it's a classical western romance, made of small town boys, simple life pleasure and true feeling. In Torn Joshua and Jamie have eyes only for each other and so the story is pretty clear. I have read in the past of twincest, but usually a third person were put in the middle of the twin to "alleviate" the sense of guilty. As the author says, Joshua is the anchor for Jamie, and Jamie is the balance for Joshua. It's him who has the courage to start the sex and it's him who finally admit that they have to come out. Joshua is the stronger in the relationship. But for them it's impossible to live together and not show their mutual love, and live apart it's even more impossible, it's like to die. And after a long absence of Jamie from the ranch, also Joshua is ready to admit that the jealousy he feels everytime someone else lays his eyes on his brother is not only a sense of protectiveness for his 5 minutes younger twin.īut even if they finally can't deny the attraction, they still have to face the risk to lose the love of family and friends if their secret will be unveil. Jamie has long ago admited to be gay but this fact is not a reason to allow him to be free of the guilty for being in love with his brother. Not a good idea since lately both Joshua than Jamie have started to feel a not so very brotherly love for each other. Their parents are long ago passed away and now also their brother will marry and move on. They live with their older brother in a ranch, breeding horses. Elisa_rolle Joshua and Jamie are twin brothers. 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