"I only lie when it's necessary." Milo Minderbinder to Yossarian. The payoff is in the character structure. Only one chapter of action is necessary and exists (19. Snowden), and All comes together. It's war kids, Catch22 ; only the insane get to leave bc wanting to stay at war is in fact c...
As minor Verne goes, this is one of the better ones I have read lately. Verne's usually feeble humor ismore effective because it is more logically tied into the plot. Two rival American astronomers find a meteor which goes into orbit around the earth. The meteor turns out to me made of gold. An...
For the past 120 years, readers of English have known only a poor imitation of Jules Verne's classic French novel Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers and consequently relegated the writer to the category of a "boy's author." Since 1873 the standard English version has been Lewis Mercier's mangled "t...
tThis might be the dumbest book I’ve ever read. I respect and understand what Bellamy was trying to do, but for mercy of the reader, don’t try to deliver something like this in a fictional setting if you’re not going to bother making your characters anything more than endlessly chattering names w...