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I Think I’m Back to Regularly Scheduled Book Buying

» by Paul November 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am » Comments (0)

Two trips to the book store this week brings about new purchases. more »

An Abstract on What is On Deck for A Gently Mad Blog

» by Paul September 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am » Comments (1)

As you can see I wrote a review of Follies of the Wise by Frederick Crews. This book took me a pretty long time to read. Not because ...more »

Follies of the Wise by Frederick Crews

» by Paul September 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 am » Comments (1)

I came across Frederick Crews's book Follies of the Wise from a review from Skeptic Magazine. The review intrigued me and not knowing much about Crews nor his reputation among ...more »

The Dark Towers- King, Browning, and the Childe Roland

» by Paul August 13th, 2008 at 10:17 am » Comments (0)

Differences in interpretation of The Dark Tower and How King Might have Missed the Point A qualifying statement must be made before I move forward with this essay. I have ...more »

Mainspring by Jay Lake

» by Paul August 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm » Comments (1)

Mainspring by Jay Lake From Publisher's Weekly: Lake (Trial of Flowers) envisions the universe as an enormous clockwork, put in motion by God, complete with gears and a mainspring hidden at the ...more »