Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins Review By Dan Geddes Tom Robbins’ Even Cowgirls Get the Blues is a self-conscious novel—a novel that…
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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe Review By Dan Geddes 10 January 2000 Thomas Wolfe shows his readers the magic in everyday life. Look Homeward,…
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield Review By Dan Geddes The Celestine Prophecy claims to be a novel, and it is: a novel disguising a…
The Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche’s most sustained critique of morality, exhibits such an original approach to value theory that many readers feel lost in the…
Swann’s Way Remembrance of Things Past (volume 1) Marcel Proust Review By Dan Geddes 10 December 1999 Proust’s fundamental triumph in Swann’s Way is in…
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Review By Dan Geddes Perhaps I expect too much of literature. Coming to read a novel for the first…
by K. Eric Drexler Synopsis By Dan Geddes Engines of Creation introduces the power and possibilities of nanotechnology to the general reader. Drexler believes that nanotechnology—the ability…
by Oscar Wilde Review by Dan Geddes Wilde writes an intriguing play masquerading as both a novel and a morality piece. The best parts of…
The Book Of J By Harold Bloom Translated by David Rosenberg (1990) Review by Dan Geddes 11 October 1999 See also reviews of Bloom’s The…
by Harold Bloom Review by Dan Geddes 5 October 1999 See other reviews of Bloom: The Book of J, Omens of Millennium, The Western Canon.…
The Four Noble Truths The Dalai Lama Review By Dan Geddes The Dalai Lama’s The Four Noble Truths was originally given as a lecture in…
The Conquest of Cool Thomas Frank Review By Dan Geddes Thomas Frank’s The Conquest of Cool successfully reframes the traditional perception of the Sixties counterculture:…
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