![]() ![]() It's the culmination of the story to a large degree. I think you've done yourself a bit of a disservice not reading these stories before Cruel Summer, as the seeds for Cruel Summer are planted all throughout the original series. I've read most of Brubaker's work, here's my rankings:Ĭriminal (the original Icon run from the mid-2000s): Just great crime stories all around. Use >!spoiler!List of websites maintained by /r/comicbook redditors.Instructions for Creators and Previous AMAs. ![]() If you are a creator who is interested in setting up an AMA please see the AMA instructions in the FAQ. Check your pictures for piracy links before posting them. Links to pirated material or piracy sites will result in an immediate ban. For reading suggestions, please check the FAQ. Please read our image policy before submitting one. Please wait for further announcements about voting for new flair images. Requests for new flair image creation is closed. To set your flair please use the flair picker. FAQ - Recommendations - Weekly Pull List - Questions and Suggestions - Swag Bag Friday ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Disch (“Dark, daunting, and thoroughly believable.”). Le Guin (“The first volume of a masterpiece.”) and Thomas M. Promising, too, were the blurbs from Ursula K. The image promised something along the lines of Michael Moorcock’s Eternal Champion Cycle, a baroque, heroic tale with melancholy underpinnings. I was drawn to The Shadow of the Torturer by Bruce Pennington’s cover art, which depicted a man in a black cloak striding away from a ruined citadel, a huge sword on his back. I was 15 years old and a Dungeons & Dragons nerd I spent a lot of time skulking around the Fantasy and Science Fiction sections of the city’s bookstores. On a Saturday afternoon in 1983, I picked up Gene Wolfe’s The Shadow of the Torturer in the Fountain Bookshop in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ![]() ![]() ![]() I've read it couple of mounts ago and loved it! ![]() My interpretation of his (granted: wretched and twisted) quest for the perfect smell is that he wants to be loved - and in a way he succeeds, doesn't he? When the book ends and he opens the phial of his 'master piece' the people around are so overcome by love and desire that they literally devour him. So apparently, even though everyone he meets instinctively loathes him he still needs the company of other human beings. The main character (what's his name again? Grenouille? My memory resembles a sieve when it comes to names) isn't loved from the day he's born - actually through no fault of his own: after all, how can he help it that he doesn't have a smell of his own? Afterwards he is exploited and abused by his subsequent masters, and his retreat into isolation doesn't last either. My idea is that the primitive desire you refer to is rather the (universal) desire to be liked and loved. ![]() I read this a couple of years ago and don't have it around know so I'm not sure of the details but I do remember vividly that I liked the book a lot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics ![]() Along the way, he looks at the lives of great players and thinkers who shaped the sport, and probes why the English, in particular, have proved themselves unwilling to grapple with the abstract.įully revised and updated, this fifteenth-anniversary edition analyses the evolution of modern international football, including the 2022 World Cup, charting the influence of the great Spanish, German and Portuguese tacticians of the last decade, whilst pondering the effects of footballs increased globalisation and commercialisation. In the modern classic, Jonathan Wilson pulls apart the finer details of the world's game, tracing the global history of tactics, from modern pioneers right back to the beginning, when chaos reigned. The fifteenth anniversary edition, fully revised and updated, of Jonathan Wilson's modern classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() “A muscular, enthralling read that takes you back to a time when two titans of industry clashed in a battle of wills and egos that had seismic ramifications not only for themselves but for anyone living in the United States, then and now.” -Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River a colloquial style that is mindful of William Manchester’s great The Glory and the Dream.” - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review “Standiford tells the story with the skills of a novelist. The tale is deftly set out by Les Standiford.” - Wall Street Journal we can add one more: Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick. “To the list of the signal relationships of American history. The result is an extraordinary work of popular history. Set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age, Meet You in Hell captures the majesty and danger of steel manufacturing, the rough-and-tumble of the business world, and the fraught relationship between “the world’s richest man” and the ruthless coke magnate to whom he entrusted his companies. ![]() The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry. “The narrative is as absorbing as that of any good novel-and as difficult to put down.”- Miami Herald ![]() Standiford has a way of making the 1890s resonate with a twenty-first-century audience.”- USA Today One desire to dominate business at any price. Two founding fathers of American industry. ![]() ![]() ![]() It uses this to infiltrate human minds, gradually replacing cells and drawing out information from millions in a one-way flow. It has been releasing artificial cells to form a worldmind called the xenosphere. It turns out he owes his insights as a thief to the alien presence. This enables him to victimize the wealthy who will not miss what he takes, and after a while he breaks into homes of the poor to leave part of what he has stolen. ![]() He has an uncanny ability to sense the precise location of hidden valuables. In his early years, he tells us he is indifferent to the world, amoral and a thief. We gradually learn more about him as he shifts among time periods in his life from Now (2066) to Then (his youth in Lagos in the 2030s and 40s and his years in the early Camp Rosewater of the 2050s). ![]() Yet over time, Rosewater becomes a more established city and home to a large population, including Kaaro, who narrates the story. So people flock to the site to be cured, and for years the settlement is a rough shanty town sardonically dubbed Rosewater for its stench quite opposite to that fragrance. ![]() ![]() Godwin, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Many are funny, plenty are laced with a heavy dose of eeriness, and all convey Luckovich's knack for exaggerating important moments into unforgettable images.' - Becca J. ![]() 'The selection of Luckovich's profound cartoons drawn since early 2016 provides a pulse of our current climate. ![]() Woven through with searing commentary and personal anecdotes, Mike's cartoons will shock and delight you, making you think as much as they make you laugh - when you're not too busy being terrified. His cartoons are reprinted in newspapers across the country. Covering Trump's antics from the 2016 election through to the Mueller investigation, the cartoons in A Very Stable Genius tackle key moments in Trump's political career, offering scathing insights on everything from his disastrous track record with women to his revolving-door cabinet to his suspiciously intimate relationship with a certain Russian leader. Mike Luckovich is a Seattle native and has worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 1989. ![]() ![]() But Mike rose to the challenge, pulling no punches and stripping down Trump and his cronies with his signature wit and style. How do you poke fun at a man who's so absurd he practically satirizes himself? Even two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mike Luckovich admits it's been a challenge covering the Cheeto-in-Chief in his internationally syndicated political cartoons. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ***Copy provided to Bayou Book Junkie for my reading pleasure. ![]() Such a great pairing, I can see them popping up in later books and can’t wait to catch up on their HEA. The perfect blend of action, humour, sexiness, and emotion. Supported by a great cast of characters, I can’t wait for their stories this is a must-read book for me. There’s such an emotional core to the story I loved these guys together. He’s so protective and will go to any lengths to find the truth so Dylan can have his life back. These guys are really funny but the banter doesn’t hide just how much Travis cares for Dylan. This book is fast-paced, full of action, and the heat levels are off the chart but what really grabs you is the banter between the two. Dylan starts to see just who Travis is behind the sometimes juvenile, always humorous front Travis wears. The forced proximity while they try to find out who’s framing Dylan, finally allows them to see behind the games to what they really feel. Dylan is set up by his boss and the only person he trusts, despite the fact he drives him up the wall is Travis. He hides how serious he is about him by playing the fool and getting to his face. Travis wants Dylan, more than he should probably admit. Travis runs his Mike Bravo Ops team professionally and with an expert eye but when it comes to Dea agent Dylan, he plays a completely different game. Oh my Lord what a fab, fun book which isn’t what you expect to say when you’re writing about a crack covert ops team. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Most scholars believe that Dante began composing the Comedy in 1306 or 1307, a few years after his exile from Florence. ![]() Commentators in the 14th century, including Dante’s disciple Giovanni Boccaccio, began calling the Comedy “Divine” both because of its sacred subject matter and because of its literary significance. The other reason for the title has more to do with the poem’s narrative pattern: Since the poem begins in sorrow (the dark wood of sin) and ends in joy (the vision of God), one can easily argue that the poem’s movement parallels the plot of a comedy. The first, as explained by Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, one of the early Italian commentators on the poem, is that the Comedy (composed in Italian rather than Latin) is written in a vernacular language-an assertion that gains support from Dante’s own comments in Book 2 of De vulgari eloquentia, where he defines comedy in terms of style and diction. But there are two reasons Dante calls the poem a comedy. ![]() This seems an odd title for most modern readers, who see little humor in the poem. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on Februĭante’s crowning achievement, one of the most important works in Western literature and undisputedly the most important poetic text of the European Middle Ages, is the great poem he calls his Comedy, or Commedia (ca. ![]() ![]() ![]() He writes six pages a day every day for the entire year. Something that would prove he was just a regular guy who wasn't in it for the money. Zavisa caught King at the right time because he was one, drunk, and two, looking to do something small. In the forward, King recounts how Cycle of the Werewolf began at the 1979 World Fantasy Convention, where Christopher Zavisa approached him about doing a "story calendar." Each month of the year would contain a vignette that added up to a complete story, accompanied by an illustration done by Berni Wrightson, co-creator of the Swamp Thing character. ![]() |