John Williams was a professor of English literature whose previous novels dealt, In muted emotions, with the lives of very humble men. So it is with a little surprise that one picks up this book, his most critically successful novella, about the life of the first Roman emperor, Augustus, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus. Augustus (Ocatavian), a real historical figure, adopted by Julius Caesar as a young boy, who used the latter’s assassination as a galvanizing force to raise an army of his own and start […]
The Eighth son of an Eighth son is a born WIZZARD.
“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.” Terry Pratchett is one of my absolute favorite authors, I was hooked from the first page of one of his books that I read as a wee lad so long ago. That book was “Equal Rites”, I picked it up when I was five years old, I understood maybe one word in five, I had to check the dictionary every few lines, or, […]
No country for old men (or anyone really).
“The freedom of birds if an insult to me”. The Judge Based loosely, very loosely, on historical events, the book tells the tale of a violent youth, known only as “the Kid” who joins a gang of outlaws hired to collect Apache scalps, 100$ a pop. The story isn’t really important though, it simply serves as a framework for McCarthy to showcase and exhibit human violence, and let’s be very clear here, this book is an absolute blood bath. No one is exempt from […]