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Harsch’s command of world history is enviable.
— May 08, 2020 01:28PM
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I am sincerely grateful to own a copy of this book, to be able to pick it up at will and let its pyrotechnics dazzle my mind for a few minutes or a few hours--skipped meals and missed appointments, the sense of time growing as fractious and disoriented as within a Vegas casino.
— Sep 08, 2022 11:42AM
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OK, finally understand the Gravel-Garvin ambiguity. I can go to sleep now!
— May 07, 2020 09:30PM
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Chapter 26 ("A Six-Shooter Shot Six Times") can stand on its own as an exemplary feat of writing.
— May 07, 2020 06:28AM
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Sometimes books come along that thank and reward and fete us for being readers.
— May 06, 2020 06:06PM
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Tom Garvin is the greatest writing teacher of all time!
— May 05, 2020 08:15PM
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May 08, 2020 04:10PM
I felt that way reading Skulls of Istria. Really illuminated my ignorance of Balkan history.
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Never judge a book by its cover and whatnot, but I have never been a fan of Riverboat Book's cover designs.
Really? I love what Peter Bellis did with this cover. The only objection I had was that he liked to leave the title off the spine, but when I asked that he put it there he agreed and did so. I also like the mural on his own Mad Patagonian. I admit there are more than one I don't like all that much, and recently told an upcoming author that I didn't like is cover. Haven't heard back. By the way, I judge by covers ever since I discovered Kafka due to a Magritte cover.
Rick wrote: "Really? I love what Peter Bellis did with this cover. The only objection I had was that he liked to leave the title off the spine, but when I asked that he put it there he agreed and did so. I also..."Everyone has their own taste for cover art, but I've never seen a book from Riverboat that made me take notice. They haven't produced anything on the same level as what Snyder did with "Voices After Evelyn".
I agree Mad Patagonian cover was pretty solid though.
Hah! If your Voices After Evelyn cover is the one to which all covers aspire...well, none will appeal--I was ecstatic when I saw that one. I had vaguely described what I wanted, some other cover guy said it couldn't be done, and Jason did it quickly and beyond what I thought possible. I think if that book could have been distributed like big press books are the cover would have made it a best seller. I'd have bought it without opening the thing. Luckily we have Jason Snyder on the Olof cover as well, and so that novel will have his touch on the final--if anything is wrong with it, it will be my fault for making him conform to my notions.
