The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
Oct14

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair   I’m going to declare right at the outset that I’m as jealous as hell of Swiss author Joël Dicker.  He’s young and good-looking and, since his thriller novel and whodunit The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair, has been translated into 32 languages – appearing in the States in 2014 – and sold two million copies, he was a very wealthy young man before he was thirty. So:  jealous.  You bet. ...

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The Chronicles of Conan Volume 14: Shadow of the Beast And Other Stories
Oct14

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 14: Shadow of the Beast And Other Stories

The Chronicles of Conan Volume 14: Shadow of the Beast And Other Stories   This final piece is an overview rather than a review and therefore contains spoilers galore.   The Moon-Eaters of Darfur (issue #108 of Marvel’s Conan the Barbarian) opens on a miserable, rain driven and stormy landscape as the Cimmerian heads north of the Kushite capital of Meroê, leaving behind a city in the throes of full-blown upheaval. With him is the...

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