~ Book Reviews ~
SEP/01/20
‘My Man’ — The Mucker By Edgar Rice Burroughs
AUG/20/20
‘A Mighty Root’ — J O H N H O W A R D In 2 Adventures By SAMUEL FINLAY
AUG/20/20
‘Their Shared Cup’ — King Of Dogs By Andrew Edwards
AUG/19/20
Lords Of Cuckistan — Of Fear And The Gathering Night
AUG/06/20
Hounds Of Arуas — Marcus Casca's New Book Is In Print
JUL/24/20
‘The Sword Of The Law’ — November 1890, Howard Pyle, Wilmington Delaware
JUL/17/20
‘A Lone Wolf’ — Kill Them All: A Review Of Chapter 1 Of Licensed To Kill By Robert Young Pelton
JUL/08/20
‘Old Dick’ — The Boarding Of The Loch Err And The Political Sanctity Of Sailor Enslavement In Post-Plantation America
JUN/28/20
‘The Zuweyla Gate’ — An Impression Of Robert E. Howard’s Hawks Over Egypt
JUN/08/20
‘Gaian Collectivity’ — Food Of The Gods By Terence McKenna
JUN/08/20
‘Since Nightfall’ — Hawks Over Egypt By Robert E. Howard
MAY/27/20
‘Occluded From Our Understanding’ — Conspiracy, Compliance, Control, And Defiance By Andy Nowicki
APR/05/20
Just In Time! — The Book You Need To Survive As An Anthropomorphic Weed
MAR/05/20
‘Nothingness The Black Flame’ — Carlos And James Discuss Evola's Ride The Tiger
MAR/05/20
Deluge And Dearth — The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History: 1300-1850 By Brian Fagan
FEB/21/20
The Logos Continued — Revisiting The Haunted Labyrinth That Was The Mind Of Phillip K. Dick
FEB/14/20
Angela’s Children — Speaking With A Young Writer
FEB/04/20
‘Boot And Shoot’ — A Parting Look At Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup Of America By Thomas W. Chittum
JAN/30/20
'The Sphinx Is His Cousin' — H.P. Lovecraft's Cat's Of Ulthar Read By Swain Laughlin
JAN/30/20
Out Of The Whirlwind — Echoes Of Cataclysm And Migration From The Book Of Job
JAN/19/20
Fort Parker — Impressions Of A Lethal Paradise, From Empire Of The Summer Moon By S. C. Gwynne
JAN/15/20
Over The Eyes Of Men — Crackpot Mailbox: Carlos And James Discuss The Iliad, Reading And A Life Of Action
JAN/12/20
‘To Some Third And Other Destiny’ — Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness In The West By Cormac McCarthy
JAN/08/20
‘A Declension Of Morality’ — Sade By Jonathan Bowden
JAN/08/20
Physics: ‘Pale And Unwashed’ — Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness In The West By Cormac McCarthy
DEC/25/19
'Combat, Baltimore And Women' — Brian Jewell Reviews Various Cuneiform Tablets From The Dark Heart Of Maryland
DEC/22/19
On Book Reviews — Outtakes From A Conversation With Brian Jewell And Tips For Building Your Own Readership By Posting
DEC/19/19
‘From A Frozen Sleep’ — A Dawn In Flanders By Robert E. Howard
DEC/16/19
'Super Position' — And Other Mythic Concepts With C8 And James
DEC/02/19
‘Hesitation Is The Enemy’ — Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual, By Jocko Willink
NOV/27/19
‘A Warrior Be’ — Impressions Of Beowulf
NOV/26/19
‘Flower Of Night’ — Scarlet And Gold Are The Stars Tonight By Robert E. Howard
NOV/21/19
‘His Night Side’ — The Teachers: Part 1 Of Eumeswil By Ernst Junger, Translated By Joachim Neugroschel
NOV/20/19
‘The Hand That Wields Me’ — Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & The Prison Of Belief By Lawrence Wright
NOV/20/19
‘Of Auditory Rape’ — A Parting Impression Of Breakfast With The Dirt Cult By Samuel Finlay
OCT/31/19
‘Over Deep Time’ — The Swordfish Hunters: The History And Ecology Of An Ancient American Sea People By Bruce Bourque
OCT/23/19
‘The Burning Breath Of Azrael’ — The Shadow Of The Vulture By Robert E. Howard
OCT/16/19
‘The Old Conductress’ — Candide Or The Optimist By Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
OCT/11/19
‘Far From The Cradle Of Your Race’ — The House Of Arabu By Robert E. Howard
OCT/11/19
‘In This Lonely Cell’ — A Summation Of The LIFE, TRIAL, CONFESSION AND EXECUTION Of ALBERT W. HICKS
OCT/06/19
'Across The Rim Of Death And Decades' — Crackpot Mailbox: A Dialogue With Poet Nathaniel Lucas
SEP/15/19
'The Iron Harp' — James LaFond's Impression Of Dark Valley Destiny: The Life Of Robert E. Howard By De Camp, De Camp & Griffin
SEP/02/19
‘From Kind Masters’ — The Perspective Of Henry “Box” Brown
SEP/01/19
‘Progress And The Eternally Trapped Mind’ — FOR MY PEOPLE And Other Poems By Nathaniel Lucas, 75 Pages
AUG/13/19
‘A Thousand Years And More Ago’ — A Translation From The Chinese By Arthur Waley, 1919, Knopf, NY, 325 Pages
AUG/13/19
‘A Specific Paradigm’ — Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick 4:16, Reading From Pages 16-18
AUG/07/19
‘A Vast And Important Book’ — Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick 4:13, Reading From Pages 14-16
JUL/26/19
‘Destiny’s Exile’ — The Aeneid Of Virgil: Impressions Of A Migratory Epic
JUL/26/19
‘The Sidereal World’ — Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick 4:6, Reading From Pages 6-14
JUL/26/19
‘With These Tongs We Are Held In The Forge’ — The Citadel Of The Autarch By Gene Wolfe
JUL/25/19
‘Silence Drank The Voices’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of From What Hell Have You Crawled, Chapter 4 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
JUL/20/19
‘Master Of The House Of Chains’ — The Sword Of The Lictor By Gene Wolfe
JUL/18/19
‘In The Outside World’ — Impressions Of The Exegesis Of Phillip K. Dick: 4:1, Pages 3-6
JUL/18/19
‘Under A Troubled Master-Eye’ — An Exegesis Of Ahab And The Whale: Or A Reading Of Moby Dick By Herman Melville
JUL/12/19
‘Beyond The Shores Of Urth’ — The Claw Of The Conciliator By Gene Wolfe
JUL/08/19
‘The Human Herd’ — Why Call Them Back From Heaven By Clifford Simak
JUN/15/19
‘They Had Forgotten Her’ — You Can’t Win By Jack Black
JUN/13/19
‘A Chorus Of The Winds’ — Damnation Alley By Roger Zelazny
JUN/09/19
‘Concrete Killing Fields’ — Civil War Two: The Coming Breakup Of America By Thomas W. Chittum
JUN/09/19
‘Soldier’s Heart’ — Battle Fatigue - Did It Affect Soldiers In The Ancient World? By Lindy Beige
JUN/09/19
‘The Calculus Of His Under-Mind’ — Sleepwalker’s World By Gordon R. Dickenson
JUN/03/19
‘This Holocaust Of Hate’ — Pirates Of Venus By Edgar Rice Burroughs
MAY/28/19
Preparing For Hell On Earth — By Doctor X: A Review Of Letters From The Fall; Civilization Decomposes
MAY/26/19
‘The Plum From Mars’ — David Star, Space Ranger By Isaac Asimov
MAY/26/19
‘To The Renascent Stars’ — Impressions Of Chapter 26 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
MAY/23/19
‘Winter In My Heart’ — The Door Into Summer By Robert A Heinlein
MAY/17/19
‘A Dark Mist’ — Soldiers & Ghosts By J. E. Lendon A History Of Battle In Classical Antiquity
MAY/07/19
‘Bloody, Stupid Things I’ve Done’ — Enemy Of The State By Tommy Robinson
MAY/06/19
‘Corruption’ — Clinton Cash By Peter Schweizer
MAY/03/19
‘Mighty Is The Proud One’ — Impressions Of Chapter 21 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer Reading From Pages 130-135 Of Shadow & Claw
APR/27/19
Reading On The Rails — Classic Science-Fiction And Fantasy Reviews
APR/27/19
‘Lot’s Children’ — Wild Seed By Octavia E. Butler
APR/27/19
‘The Path’ — Impressions Of Chapter 20 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
APR/27/19
‘All That Is Gone’ — Impressions Of Chapter 19 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
APR/26/19
‘In Ranks’ — A Reading Of The Miracle Of The Loaves And The Fishes From Mark And Mathew
APR/23/19
‘Not A Single Christian Hand’ — Jasper Dankaert’s Journal Or Plantation Maryland, December 1779, Pages 114-137
APR/20/19
‘Negroes And Servants’ — Jasper Dankeart’s Journal, October-November, 1679 Pages 65-114
APR/12/19
‘Human Applesauce’ — McNamara’s Folly: The Use Of Low-IQ Troops In The Vietnam War By Hamilton Gregory
APR/12/19
‘Dr. Talos’ — Impressions Of Chapter 16 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
APR/09/19
Misleading Reading — Dear Mister President: John Quincy Adams: Letters From A Southern Planter’s Son By Steven Kroll
APR/09/19
‘In The Cold Light Of Morning’ — Janissaries By Jerry Pournelle
APR/06/19
‘A Far Broader Domain Of Existence’ — Physics Reforged: The New Theory Of Parallel Universes, Hidden Dimensions, And The Fringes Of Reality By Julian Von Abele
APR/02/19
Agememnon Was A Woman? — Crackpot Mailbox: Banjo And James Discuss The Iliad
APR/01/19
‘Of Snakes And White Folks’ — Carnival Of Fury: Robert Charles And The New Orleans Race Riot Of 1900 By William Ivy Hair
MAR/23/19
‘Our Poor Robyn’ — From The Journal Of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680, Pages 1-42
MAR/19/19
‘The Fearful Song’ — Impressions Of Chapter 11 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
MAR/12/19
‘These Black Snakes’ — Pennsylvania Servitude In Light Of Peter Kalm’s Travels In North America, 407 Pages
MAR/09/19
‘Clothed In Favor’ — Impressions Of Chapter 9 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
MAR/07/19
‘Dog-Brothers’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Cliffs Reel, Chapter 3, Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
MAR/06/19
‘Of The Living City’ — Impressions Of Chapter 8 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
MAR/02/19
‘The Real Deal’ — Writers Who Lived What They Taught: A Tardy Crackpot Mail Box Answer
MAR/02/19
‘The Extinguished Ones’ — Impressions Of Chapter 7 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
MAR/02/19
'Intensity' — Dan Carlin Hardcore History 62: Supernova In The East Podcast Review
FEB/27/19
'Death Stalked Grinning' — James LaFond's Impressions Of A Black Wind Blows, Chapter 2, Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/20/19
‘This Warrior Of A Dead World’ — Impressions Of Chapter 5 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/16/19
‘The Huron’ — The Quick And The Dead By Louis L’Amour
FEB/13/19
‘I Am To Some Degree Insane’ — Impressions Of Chapter 3 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/11/19
‘The Faithless Door… Eternally Ajar’ — Impressions Of Chapter 2 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/09/19
‘The Open Gates Of Hell’ — Oh Sleeper Awake: James LaFond's Impressions Of Chapter 1 Of Robert E. Howard’s Hour Of The Dragon
FEB/09/19
‘In The Recesses Of My Mind’ — Impressions Of Chapter 1 Of Gene Wolfe’s Shadow Of The Torturer
FEB/06/19
‘Before The Rising Sun’ — The Shadow Of The Torturer: Part 1: Impressions Of The Book Of The New Sun By Gene Wolfe
FEB/06/19
Bronze Age Myths — Crackpot Mailbox: Clued Wants To Know About Paleface Ancestry
JAN/16/19
‘Of Fear And Night’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Hour Of The Dragon By Robert E. Howard
JAN/06/19
'Hugging' — The Crackpot Does A Video Book Review
JAN/04/19
'A Tocsin Of Alarm' — James LaFond's Impressions Of Conan Loses His Axe By Robert E. Howard
JAN/03/19
‘A Hungering For Great Things’ — A History Of Strategy: From Sun Tzu To William S. Lind By Martin Van Creveld
JAN/03/19
‘Morpheus’ — Dream Land: The True Tale Of America’s Opiate Epidemic By Sam Quinones
JAN/03/19
‘Far-Seer’ — Prometheus An Atlas By Jason Reza Jorjani, 2016, Arktos, 416 Pages
JAN/03/19
‘Why? Why Did She Dare?’ — Yankee Hobo In The Orient: Dollar Edition By John Patric
JAN/03/19
‘The Wide And Easy Way To Hell’ — SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating The Thought Police, Vox Day
JAN/03/19
‘Those Wonderfully Hard Things’ — Be Like Water: Martial Words, Martial Wisdom By David Brian Lumsden
DEC/16/18
‘The Sissy-Fication Process’ — The Modern Survival Manuel: Surviving The Economic Collapse By Fernando ‘Ferral’ Aquirre
DEC/15/18
‘The Hay Crop’ — The Impending Crisis Of The South By Hinton Rowan Helper: 1 0f 13
DEC/07/18
'Casting Solomon Kane' — What Actor Would You Cast To Play The Puritan Swordsman?
DEC/07/18
'To Ease Various Evil Men Of Their Lives' — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Blue Flame Of Vengeance By Robert E. Howard
DEC/05/18
'My Sour Friend' — James LaFond's Impressions Of The Right Hand Of Doom By Robert E. Howard
NOV/29/18
‘Playing God’ — Cadillac Desert: The American West And Its Disappearing Water By Marc Reisner
NOV/27/18
‘For God’s Sake’ — James LaFond's Impressions Of Skulls In The Stars By Robert E. Howard
NOV/21/18
‘4GW’ — 4th Generation Warfare Handbook By William S. Lind & LtCol Gregory A. Thiele, USMC
NOV/20/18
'Each Deathly Eye' — James LaFond's Impressions Of Death’s Black Riders By Robert E. Howard
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