Showing posts with label Character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Character. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Travis McGee Deserves A Statue

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Salvage expert. Formative influence: Thank you, John D. McDonald.
Friday, July 12, 2019

Fun Reading: Malazan!

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This is the third book in a ten-book series. Steven Erikson's Memories of Ice. Erikson's heroic fantasy is real literature, inv...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Le Carre's "A Perfect Spy" is a Perfect Novel

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Le Carre's A Perfect Spy is, I hazard to claim, a perfect novel.  It carries the adult thesis that the crucial shapings of character ar...
Thursday, May 31, 2018

TOP MUSICAL HIT: 14TH BIRTHDAY?

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I've read somewhere--some meme, some random posting--that the top musical hit on your 14th birthday has a mystical, even fatal effect o...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

Appreciating Erikson's Sword and Sorcery

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Steven Erikson of the Malazan sword-and-sorcery novels is a damn fine novelist.  He can write character like nobody's-business.  I won...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

"The Other Worlds": Life's Largest Riddle

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The Other Worlds  is an excellent mythopoeic novel by a dear friend, Christoph Greger.  Christoph's own humble way of introducing t...
Thursday, October 25, 2012

William Gibson: "A Walking Shadow"

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At the moment, there are two particularly resonating pieces in William Gibson's 1999 cyberpunk novel All Tomorrow's Parties that I ...
Sunday, October 21, 2012

A Danish Mermaid: Ophelia Revised

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In my version, she lives. Ophelia survives her madness and suicide attempt. I'm not sure wha...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Dunnett's Macbeth: Thorfinn of Orkney -- A Favorite Passage

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Here's a favorite passage from Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter, a novel about the historical Macbeth: Thorfinn the Mighty, Earl of ...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Reading Dickens: Reflection In Action

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Today I started reading Dickens' David Copperfield for the second time in my life because of something novelist David Corbett shared i...
Monday, July 23, 2012

"My Aim Is True": Novel Navigation?

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Or, By Bluff and Blunder? Or, Compassion As Compass? Or, Pin The Tale On The Donkey? I'll stop with the subtitles, the alternative ...
Friday, March 30, 2012

Seferis and Sophocles: Character is Fate

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TWO POEMS FROM GEORGE SEFERIS , Translated from the Greek by Rex Warner: EURIPIDES THE ATHENIAN He lived and grew old between the burning o...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Passages: "A Humbler and A Prouder Mind"

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Here's a resonant passage from a historical novel, which I share for itself and as a model of the way I cherry-pick my way through what ...