This was my first... checks Wikipedia: Regency Historical Romance? I feel not in an adequate position to submit a rating, i.e. stars, as I am not familiar with the genre at all. I've read and enjoyed Jane Eyre, this is a different kettle of fish. But I did enjoy the read, improving my vocabulary and collection of euphemisms, and never felt insulted by the writing. (I insult easily that way.) Will read the follow-up book. (For personal reasons.)
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The life and adventures of Nat Love, better known in the cattle country as "Deadwood Dick" by Nat Love (Blacks in the American West)
Herr Rau rated The folk of the air: 3 stars
Herr Rau rated Slightly Foxed: 3 stars
Herr Rau reviewed Not Like a Lady by Judith Lynne
Review of 'Not Like a Lady' on 'Goodreads'
Herr Rau rated Westward Ha!: 3 stars
Herr Rau rated Arabian Nightmare.: 3 stars
Eventide by Kent Haruf
"When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they'd taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, …
Eventide by Kent Haruf
"When the McPheron brothers see Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they'd taken in, move from their ranch to begin college, …
Herr Rau reviewed Pulp Classics by John Betancourt
Review of 'Pulp Classics' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
Two stars, but don't let that deter you. I like pulp fiction, have read several of these facsimile reprints, and publications in other forms. This one just didn't do it for me - the stories are, mostly, ludicrous and terrible, which I usually don't mind. Here, I did. Give me spicy stuff and adventures, horror and fantasy, all great, but this pulp magazine wasn't for me.
There are several non-fiction features about numerology, graphology, horoscopes, that kind of stuff, that I found fascinatingly boring. Again, if you want to be fascinated, go for it.
One redeeming feature was the middle section of the three-parter "The Phantom Menace of the Screen" by Arthur T. Joliffe: An evil (and undead?) hypnotist uses his powers and science to manipulate the shooting of a film so that everybody who watches the film turns into a violent maniac - using the fairly recent invention of …
Two stars, but don't let that deter you. I like pulp fiction, have read several of these facsimile reprints, and publications in other forms. This one just didn't do it for me - the stories are, mostly, ludicrous and terrible, which I usually don't mind. Here, I did. Give me spicy stuff and adventures, horror and fantasy, all great, but this pulp magazine wasn't for me.
There are several non-fiction features about numerology, graphology, horoscopes, that kind of stuff, that I found fascinatingly boring. Again, if you want to be fascinated, go for it.
One redeeming feature was the middle section of the three-parter "The Phantom Menace of the Screen" by Arthur T. Joliffe: An evil (and undead?) hypnotist uses his powers and science to manipulate the shooting of a film so that everybody who watches the film turns into a violent maniac - using the fairly recent invention of the optical sound track. A much-used trope, but this is the oldest version applied to film that I know of.
Herr Rau rated Illuminatus!: 5 stars
Illuminatus! by Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea (Illuminatus!, Part 3)
"The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. …
Herr Rau rated Illuminatus!: 4 stars
Illuminatus! by Robert Shea (Illuminatus!, Part 2)
"Nausea, then microamnesia, then the laughing jag, then sex. Be patient. The clear light comes next. Then we can discuss …
Herr Rau rated Slightly Foxed: 3 stars
Review of 'Illuminatus!: The Eye in the Pyramid Bk. 1' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Maybe only four stars, there's a lot to find fault with. Still, re-reading this after 25+ years, I find it hasn't aged too badly and is still relevant in certain aspects. At the same time, it is so much of its time, or at least of a time that's so far removed from my own experience and time and stories told I read in other books, that I'm not sure this time has ever existed, and for inventing this time, I have to give it five stars.
