Of all things Geek. I am…
It’s not every day you encounter a new format to a short ebook that challenges you to think, but The Royal Cousins does just that.
Subtitled “How Three Cousins Could Have Stopped A World War,” this is a fictional alternative look at history, “told as a series of twelve breaking news bulletins.”
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Moses Maimonides wrote The Guide for the Perplexed in 1190. Eight hundred 800 years later, Jonathan Levi wrote A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel, loosely based on the original text with some fantastical alternative history.
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“I am tired, so very tired of thinking about Lacey Yeager, yet I worry that unless I write her story down, and see it bound and tidy on my bookshelf, I will be unable to write about anything else.”
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Is Raymond Gunt the worst person ever? At a minimum, he’s had some help…
This book’s main character, Raymond Gunt, may in fact be the worst person ever, or he may just be proof that assumptions and a lack of context make for the worst in people. Truth be told, that’s probably and sadly more common than we’d all like to think.
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Portnoy’s Complaint was published in 1969 to controversy and acclaim alike. The book was fought against due to censorship of the language and sexual portrayals. While the swinging’ sixties were in full effect upon release, the publishing world wasn’t swinging to the same tune, nor was everyone onboard with the quite irreverent Jewish image.
I had no real clue what I was getting into when I cracked the pages of the book for the first time.
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