Honest Book Reviews

I honestly review books. Here, you will find excellent exegetical essays in the key of astute.

(I read the cover and the blurb then make shit up)
The National Audubon Society, founded in 1905, started with a goal to conserve and catalogue avian wildlife. On birding expeditions, members of the Society discovered and made contact with extraterrestrial life in [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] This comprehensive work is a fascinating guide to insect fauna in North America, but it is part of a series introducing the diverse wildlife on the planet to the [REDACTED], whose [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] with the aim of exploiting [REDACTED] as sustenance. Located in [REDACTED], the members of the National Audubon Society in the area serve as heralds and guides to [REDACTED]. [REDACTED] in 2014. Only the Society know of the exact date when [REDACTED].

The National Audubon Society, founded in 1905, started with a goal to conserve and catalogue avian wildlife. On birding expeditions, members of the Society discovered and made contact with extraterrestrial life in [REDACTED].

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This comprehensive work is a fascinating guide to insect fauna in North America, but it is part of a series introducing the diverse wildlife on the planet to the [REDACTED], whose [REDACTED] in [REDACTED] with the aim of exploiting [REDACTED] as sustenance. Located in [REDACTED], the members of the National Audubon Society in the area serve as heralds and guides to [REDACTED].

[REDACTED] in 2014. Only the Society know of the exact date when [REDACTED].

This excellently researched (155 of the 861 pages are appendices and footnotes) chronicles the long and sordid history of the North American toilet industry. Long before the days of Kohler, the toilet robber baron du jour was American Standard — built solidly and utilitarian. Martin explores the company and characters behind the American Standard company from its humble beginnings as a radiator company in the 1892, the merger in 1929 which led to the American Standard as we know it, and the continuing saga in which corporations are bought and sold to strengthen the western bulwark of plumbing against the Others, an synecdoche representing foreign competition. This history is a highly stylized narrative in which the acquisition of European and other American toilet manufacturers are depicted as a dangerous and subtle political game to win the (fittingly enough) throne. The long winter that imperils the story’s land is an emblem of the threat of Japanese toilet innovation, with self-cleaning seats and heated pads. Will the market be happy with solid, but ultimately cold enameled steel, or will foreign influence supplant the venerated tradition? A GAME OF THRONES is a sprawling work showcasing Martin’s uncanny talent of bringing forth the epic in the commonplace.

This excellently researched (155 of the 861 pages are appendices and footnotes) chronicles the long and sordid history of the North American toilet industry. Long before the days of Kohler, the toilet robber baron du jour was American Standard — built solidly and utilitarian. Martin explores the company and characters behind the American Standard company from its humble beginnings as a radiator company in the 1892, the merger in 1929 which led to the American Standard as we know it, and the continuing saga in which corporations are bought and sold to strengthen the western bulwark of plumbing against the Others, an synecdoche representing foreign competition.

This history is a highly stylized narrative in which the acquisition of European and other American toilet manufacturers are depicted as a dangerous and subtle political game to win the (fittingly enough) throne. The long winter that imperils the story’s land is an emblem of the threat of Japanese toilet innovation, with self-cleaning seats and heated pads. Will the market be happy with solid, but ultimately cold enameled steel, or will foreign influence supplant the venerated tradition?

A GAME OF THRONES is a sprawling work showcasing Martin’s uncanny talent of bringing forth the epic in the commonplace.

LIKE BEING KILLED is an interesting literary work in which the rock ‘n’ roll legend Keith Richards is reimagined as a picaresque involving a female guitarist for seminal rock band The Rolling Stones. Unfortunately, the premise is more thrilling than the actual narrative — the protrayal of the story’s heroine is shallow and many facets of her character left unexplored. as if the author had read T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, chanced upon the line “I Tiresias, throbbing between two lives”, was inspired, and looked up “Tiresias” on Wikipedia and decided to write a novel based on alternating genders. Fantastic premise, but this reviewer enjoyed the story more when it was called ANNABEL, or MIDDLESEX.

LIKE BEING KILLED is an interesting literary work in which the rock ‘n’ roll legend Keith Richards is reimagined as a picaresque involving a female guitarist for seminal rock band The Rolling Stones.

Unfortunately, the premise is more thrilling than the actual narrative — the protrayal of the story’s heroine is shallow and many facets of her character left unexplored. as if the author had read T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, chanced upon the line “I Tiresias, throbbing between two lives”, was inspired, and looked up “Tiresias” on Wikipedia and decided to write a novel based on alternating genders.

Fantastic premise, but this reviewer enjoyed the story more when it was called ANNABEL, or MIDDLESEX.

Set between two excellently researched pieces of journalism (DIGITAL FORTRESS, an expose of pre-Internet cyber warfare and ANGELS AND DEMONS, a study of alcoholic codependency), Sir Doctor Professor Brown pulls back the veil that obscures the average American’s vision into extraterrestrial life. This groundbreaking volume features interviews and narrative gathered from NASA vaults, very recently cleared by Barack Obama for public knowledge. Obama’s predecessor Zachary Herney is revealed to be an alcoholic womanizer who manipulated his rival Senator Sedgwick Sexton’s daughter Rachel Sexton. The latter Sexton, a gister (secret ops agent), is seduced by Herney into helping him mount a nationwide coverup of a recent discovery in the Arctic: a crashed meteor possibly harboring organic life forms. Brown risks his career, scholarly reputation, and life during his investigation, for a revelation that will set the United States on fire. The quality of research and deft turn of phrase in DECEPTION POINT counts among Brown’s best, only dwarfed by his most recent work on ringworm sufferers.

Set between two excellently researched pieces of journalism (DIGITAL FORTRESS, an expose of pre-Internet cyber warfare and ANGELS AND DEMONS, a study of alcoholic codependency), Sir Doctor Professor Brown pulls back the veil that obscures the average American’s vision into extraterrestrial life. This groundbreaking volume features interviews and narrative gathered from NASA vaults, very recently cleared by Barack Obama for public knowledge.

Obama’s predecessor Zachary Herney is revealed to be an alcoholic womanizer who manipulated his rival Senator Sedgwick Sexton’s daughter Rachel Sexton. The latter Sexton, a gister (secret ops agent), is seduced by Herney into helping him mount a nationwide coverup of a recent discovery in the Arctic: a crashed meteor possibly harboring organic life forms.

Brown risks his career, scholarly reputation, and life during his investigation, for a revelation that will set the United States on fire. The quality of research and deft turn of phrase in DECEPTION POINT counts among Brown’s best, only dwarfed by his most recent work on ringworm sufferers.

Purchase here! This title is a study in parallax — an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. Horman studies the literary methods of Mark and Thomas in their interpretations of Jesus H. Christs’ sayings. Horman’s portrayal of Mark and Thomas, as two warring generals on an intellectual battlefield, is reminiscent of Plato and Xenophon interpreting the stories of Soh-crates, in particular the dinner party episode, where Plato paints a Bacchanalian episode verging on the pornographic, and Xenophon attempts to bring forth a central message via a peripatetic back-and-forth. The revelation of a shared original source used by Mark and Thomas, and the rejection of the two commonly held views, that is: either as an independent stream of Jesus sayings written without knowledge of the New Testament Gospels and or as a later piece of pseudo-Scripture that uses the New Testament as source, is sure to ignite fierce debate into authenticity and accuracy of source, likely to dwarf in scope the similar debate about whether Kool Moe Dee or Busy Bee is the true Mack Daddy of Hip Hop.

Purchase here!

This title is a study in parallax — an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. Horman studies the literary methods of Mark and Thomas in their interpretations of Jesus H. Christs’ sayings. Horman’s portrayal of Mark and Thomas, as two warring generals on an intellectual battlefield, is reminiscent of Plato and Xenophon interpreting the stories of Soh-crates, in particular the dinner party episode, where Plato paints a Bacchanalian episode verging on the pornographic, and Xenophon attempts to bring forth a central message via a peripatetic back-and-forth.

The revelation of a shared original source used by Mark and Thomas, and the rejection of the two commonly held views, that is: either as an independent stream of Jesus sayings written without knowledge of the New Testament Gospels and or as a later piece of pseudo-Scripture that uses the New Testament as source, is sure to ignite fierce debate into authenticity and accuracy of source, likely to dwarf in scope the similar debate about whether Kool Moe Dee or Busy Bee is the true Mack Daddy of Hip Hop.