Sign in with Facebook
Bert Robbens’s Followers (18)
3,627 books
|
171 friends
2,006 books
|
90 friends
1,263 books
|
24 friends
16 books
|
81 friends
476 books
|
48 friends
0 books
|
1 friend
1,422 books
|
72 friends
89 books
|
68 friends
More friends…
Bert Robbens
Goodreads Author
Born
in Grand Forks, North Dakota, The United States
Genre
Influences
Dashiell Hammett, Henry Fielding
Member Since
April 2014
Latest Pages
Motives and Methods of Hardboiled Fiction Part 6:
Concluding Unhardboiled Postscript
To anyone who has checked out the shelves of a book store, it is obvious that works in the hardboiled style I’ve described are almost non-existent. There are a few simple, but compelling, reasons for this: 1) it’s hard - hard to write and hard to read, 2) the stories it can tell may be infinite, but there is also an Read more of this blog post »
Concluding Unhardboiled Postscript
To anyone who has checked out the shelves of a book store, it is obvious that works in the hardboiled style I’ve described are almost non-existent. There are a few simple, but compelling, reasons for this: 1) it’s hard - hard to write and hard to read, 2) the stories it can tell may be infinite, but there is also an Read more of this blog post »
Bert’s Recent Updates
|
Bert Robbens
entered a giveaway
|
|
|
Bert Robbens
entered a giveaway
|
|
"Too Like the Lightning instantly moves into the bottom 10-15 books I have ever read. A wandering mess of masturbatory, pompous drivel masquerading as a deep sci-fi thought experiment, Too Like the Lightning is bereft of interesting ideas, characters,"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Bert Robbens
and
2 other people
liked
Joshua Van Dereck's review
of
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1):
"The Eye of the World is a remarkably decent book, which greatly surprised me, given many of the negative reviews and the general guilty pleasure, apologetic attitude that fans often project when talking about this series.
Jordan makes no effort to dis" Read more of this review » |
|
"I will readily admit that I am not the target audience for the books in this series. I am reading them almost scientifically, to attempt to come to grips with their popularity and to understand what has made Maas into such a phenomenon. Five books in"
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Bert Robbens
rated a book did not like it
|
|
|
Wrong Way I’ve tried to read this book twice and never made it past the fifteenth page. Nothing happens. It’s just description. No character appears on stage. They remain behind the curtain while the author stands at a microphone talking about their i ...more |
|
|
Bert Robbens
rated a book it was amazing
|
|
| This is the best contemporary novel I've read in a long time. I am amazed at the knowledge and sensitivity that went into its creation. The story manages to be topical, dramatic and human all at the same time. I've liked every Kingsolver novel I've r ...more | |
“So many books, so little time.”
―
―
“Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
―
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!”
―
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 305639 members
— last activity 3 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
Support for Indie Authors
— 16603 members
— last activity Dec 24, 2025 09:20PM
Officially 15k Members Strong & Climbing!! Building and supporting a community of self-published authors dedicated to both sharing experiences and le ...more
Pulp Fiction
— 1909 members
— last activity Dec 31, 2025 01:29PM
Hard Boiled detective novels, noir, and great crime novels (old and new)
