Book Reviews by Human Beings for Human Beings.
ISBN: 978-0-593-71799-8 October 22, 2026 Longtime readers will known that The Booklight thas been burned on Tom Clancy derivative works in the past. It was with some trepidation, then, that Defense Protocol in the Clancy universe was leafed through. China is at it again trying…
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ISBN: 978-1-250-27436-6 October 21, 2026 Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner have a podcast that appears on Youtube called Dropping Names. It is a relatively entertaining discussion about various Hollywood experiences and contacts the two of them have made. Though one might expect the podcast to…
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ISBN: 9780063028050 September 26, 2026 Termination Shock is the weakest Neal Stephenson book out of any reviewed on this site. While the book has the emaciated outlines of a typical quality Stephenson novel, it is not lacking for the Stephenson quotidian girth that most of…
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ISBN: 978-1785307430 August 18, 2026 If you want to tell the history of the alphabet the first thing you must decide is which alphabet it is that you want to tell the history of. Then, you must decide which culture best tells that history. Mr.
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ISBN: 978-125039123-0 August 4, 2026 There is not much to like about the content of Careless People. It proves challenging to get past the strong political beliefs of the author, who was an attorney for the UN and rubs shoulders with the folks at Davos…
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ISBN 13: 9781737650782 July 28, 2026 Mark Blitz asserts that he was one of the first people to observe the pattern of lunar and solar eclipses back in 2008 that other authors—like Jonathan Cahn—who has several pieces of work reviewed here, have made popular in…
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July 22, 2026 Pilgrims of the Sword by the Grand Scrivener proclaims itself to be the official history of the Knight's Templar Order. To be specific, this history is in its first volume, and more volumes are anticipated as this tome brings us up to…
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July 5, 2026 Though these are bound in two individual books, they are a series which is being referred to, in Latin, as Deus Vult, or God Wills. The Great Replacement, and how to resist it, is actually the first of these. This book came…
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978-0385499088 June 28, 2026 Funny thing about James Bamford. He is seemingly everywhere for some time, then disappears from off the face of the Earth. An example review from the period might prove illustrative: > Body of Secrets. Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency.
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978-198218128 June 26, 2026 They say you should not judge a book by its cover. Elon Musk's biography, Elon Musk, has a picture on the front that one would consider to be a rich-tech-douche-with-too-high of an opinion of himself template. The aura is positively a…
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ISBN 1-891030-80-9 June 25, 2026 Everything you think you know about Sacagawea, according to the elders of the tribes represented here—namely the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation—is wrong. A good place to start with is her name Sacagawea is an incorrect name, and means she…
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June 25, 2026 The Book Light is undergoing another shift. The public web has become a slop house of AI and inattention. Part of the dissatisfaction with the present model, particularly with the domain system, are the issues of signal spread and censorship. Therefore, The…
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ISBN: 978-3759836519 March 22, 2026 Q - Biblical Times by Thunderson Falk wrangles with the burden of attaching a pattern of meaning to the Q posts that made their appearance on several chans/imageboards. This movement is erroneously referred to as Qanon which is a conflation…
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This is another one of those books where you get a URL where you can read the work for free instead of an ISBN: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14453 March 17, 2026 George MacDonald is featured here on thebooklight in several works. This one stands out because it is…
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ISBN: 978-1-63641-399-0 March 6, 2026 Jonathan Cahn has several works reviewed on The Book Light now. This definitely speaks to the proliferation of his authored works. Generally, the reviews here have followed a chronological progression of his earlier works to his later works. In the…
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Instead of an ISBN, you just get a link this time where you can go read the whole book if you wish. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61077/pg61077-images.html March 3, 2026 The King of Elfland's Daughter is one of those works that masquerades as a children's book while inhabiting a…
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ISBN: 979-8218777920 Feb 20, 2026 A little over five months ago on September 10, the world saw Charlie Kirk get shot in the neck which proved to be a fatal wound. His book, however, had not yet become available on the market. There is something…
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ISBN: 0-940652-52-6 Feb. 16, 2026 George MacDonald is referred to as a forgotten author. When one looks back to the early twentieth century, though, one finds that he is not so forgotten. Somewhere around 1930 he seems to drop from the radar. By the fifties…
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January 27, 2026 Time for some cool changes at the booklight. The booklight has gotten a makeover and some much needed fine-tuned editing. A middle man in the build process was removed along with a re-tooling of how articles are created and edited. The new…
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ISBN: 978-0-399-14218-5 January 24, 2026 Longtime readers of thebooklight might remember the review of Net Force. After reviewing that specific work which claimed to be Tom Clancy, the reviewer, remembering many Tom Clancy movies and works from the 90's, had a general feeling that Net…
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ISBN: 978-1595551382 January 20, 2026 Some tomes are heftier than others. Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas, is not anorexic by any means. The hardback version ends on page 542. What makes this book singular, in terms of a reading experience, is that even though the page…
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ISBN: 978-1533005212 November 23, 2025 Normally, when thebooklight reviews a work there is a specific genre into which the work neatly fits. Dann Slator's From Cowboy Trails To Soldier Trails is definitely a biography. By that term, what is meant is a work about a…
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ISBN: 978-0758911865 October 12, 2025 It is likely that at some point in your life, you have seen or met someone who has come across a Jack Chick tract. This fact alone speaks to the wide reach his small booklets have enjoyed and it is…
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ISBN:9781770894303 October 5, 2025 James Laxer undertakes a difficult task in 352 pages. His objective is to tell the reader how the North American continent was sliced and diced among the predominant powers of the 19th century. The picture on the cover indicates the method…
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ISBN: 978-1636415208 September 12, 2025 As a reader of thebooklight will know, Jonathan Cahn, a Messianic congregation leader, has written many books. Several of his works have been reviewed by the same. His latest work is called The Avatar and seeks to explain how the…
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ISBN: 978-0143130062 August 6, 2025 Here is how a conversation might have happened with the publisher and the author of this book, Winifred Gallagher: >Publisher: So we are looking for a top-notch academically researched piece on the United States Post Office and what you have…
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July 4, 2025 Plebpoet is the alter ego of Jana Kelsay who has become a poet through a more unconventional means—through the ranks of a crypto-powered news network called stacker.news. Plebeian is a Roman term that refers to the common people, which is what cryptocurrencies…
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ISBN: 1852276215 June 30, 2025 After having reviewed Jon Pertwee's Moon Boots and Dinner Suits which is the autobiography of his life, it was noted that there was another such work by him. That work is this one, also an autobiography, called I Am The…
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ISBN: 978-0425161722 June 24, 2025 Net Force is Clancy's answer to the Matrix if the Matrix were to meet a Federal law enforcement branch constituted by human beings instead of machines. Put another way, imagine an intelligence agency and a counter-intelligence agency squaring off against…
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0-449-00561-5 May 23, 2025 Review note: One of the staff members in the earlier days of Facebook had Hillenbrand as a friend. Seabiscuit was out then. --Booklight staff In case you ever want to know how long it takes books to get that weathered yellowing…
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ISBN 0-394-54618-0 April 6, 2025 The expectations for Yiddish Folktales by Wolf and Weinreich require some adjusting. If you believe you will be reading about Elijah against various mythical backdrops, you will be right. On the other hand, if you are not expecting elves, ghosts,…
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ISBN: 1718873980 March 7, 2025 Special thanks to https://wisepathbooks.com/ for supplying a review copy of this book. --Booklight staff There are not too many books that straddle the line between Christianity and mysticism that are able to negotiate the twists and turns the subject matter entails…
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978-1959666455 February 9, 2025 Special thanks to [https://wisepathbooks.com/](https://wisepathbooks.com/) for supplying a review copy of this book. --Booklight staff "Old Grog", the author of On Ruling, has undertaken a difficult task against the current political climate. He has attempted to weave a helpful narrative toward Christian…
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978-0465030095 February 5, 2025 Mark Bradley decided to take on a difficult task. The story of Duncan Lee is not one that most authors would want to tackle, since the subject of the work could be easily characterized as an unrepentant traitor for communist Russia…
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978-0300270198 January 15, 2025 Review note: Special thanks to [Yale University Press](https://yalebooks.yale.edu/) for providing an electronic review copy of this work. --Booklight staff Katherine Carter has spent, according to this work, ten years at Chartwell which is a long time to research and explore. To…
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978-0812974492 December 29, 2024 Review note: One of the staff members in the earlier days of Facebook had Hillenbrand as a friend. This book was not out at this point. Seabiscuit, however, was. --Booklight staff Unbroken is a work that makes a person question the…
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978-0241113370 November 20, 2024 Review note: A sister project, Nearly Sacred, a podcast just released an episode on Q and military intelligence. In a happy coincidence, this book review came in at almost the same time. --Booklight staff John Pertwee, better known as the Third Doctor…
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978-1892925008 November 13, 2024 Tadahiko Mizuno has had a long career with research that he had to pay for from his own pocket. The reason he had to pay for this research from his own pocket is typically blamed on scientific form. What is scientific…
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ISBN:978-1642937152 November 5, 2024 Geoff Shepard was there for Watergate. In The Nixon Conspiracy Shepard goes all in. He describes how at first he was disgusted by Nixon's resignation and thought that Nixon had betrayed everyone—including Shepard who was, at that point, a lawyer on…
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ISBN:978-1800181748 October 22, 2024 Scott Miller was a guy at the right place at the right time for the Shareware time period. His Twitter account happened to post something about a new book about the Shareware Era of gaming: Not long after that, bookshop.org featured…
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ISBN:9780156031967 October 17, 2024 The book Q, by Luther Blisset, is strange. It is strange because it was written in 1999. It is strange because it was also written by four people who used the pen name Luther Blisset. It is strange because they later…
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ISBN: 080245951X September 19, 2024 Note: The version reviewed is probably the 1987 version. It has a blue and white cover with some pictures on it. The book has been updated several times, probably to keep it "new". Ralph Gower has put together a masterpiece.
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ASIN: B078WF52H3 September 6, 2024 Thomas Horn, is sadly no longer alive. Fortunately, he has left some of his work behind as a kind of legacy. In The Saboteurs he outlines many pieces of what he believes are connected shadow government entities that are gradually…
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ISBN: 9781558250956 August 27, 2024 This book is published in what might be the most ideal way. The printing press is subsidized by the donations of congregations of the Church from which the book issues. Herbert Armstrong, the author, established a Church, although it appears…
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ISBN: 979-8985170832 August 21, 2024 Jim Watkins has emerged as a polarizing figure. The reason for his presence being cast in this manner has to do with his internet site that supports the 1st amendment concerning its implementation of free speech. This site is recognized…
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ISBN: 978-0945657873 August 20, 2024 The Star That Astonished the World was originally written in 1996. Since that time, it is evident that how time is calculated has shifted in some ways since one can see, if they happen to search for dates mentioned in…
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ISBN: 978-0060750862 August 6, 2024 Paging back through this site, the first review in this three part book series was posted in November of 2023. Though it was not seven months of steady reading, it does speak to the size and scope of the series.
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ISBN: 978-0802162861 July 30, 2024 Patrick K. O'Donnell has tackled an obscure corner of history. In part, this history is obscure because it is at the roots of America as a country. The other part of this relatively occulted subject occurs because the topic concerns…
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url: http://www.wordplace.com/ap/ ISBN: 978-0788199912 June 28, 2024 This review is written in markdown in WordPerfect 8 within a Linux terminal. This is not taking place due to a sense of nostalgia so much as it is appropriate to the review in focus. Many of us,…
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ISBN: 9781400068753 May 15, 2024 Richard A. Cohen endeavors, in this 2010 work, to tell the reader all about the sun. The only issue is, Richard A. Cohen does not sufficiently get out of the way enough to tell us about the sun. Rather, he…
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ISBN:978-1476782997 April 9, 2024 Adams still can't stay away from plotlines that parallel the Bible in one way or another in this former-Dr.-Who-script-turned-into-a-book. Of course, where they do parallel Biblical narratives, the Biblical stories are treated routinely as deserving of scorn. This proves annoying. However,…
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ISBN: 978-1629996295 April 7, 2024 The Oracle is probably one of Cahn's best works. While the book says it discusses the mystery of the Jubilees, which is true, it might be better to say it explains how YHVH puts His kingdom back in order. The…
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ISBN: 9780060733353 March 29, 2024 The Confusion is a hard-to-characterize work. One can say, as many have, that it is the follow-up to Stephenson's Quicksilver, and that is factually true. However, it does not adequately convey the scope and type of work that is put…
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ISBN: 9781949709599 March 8, 2024 The solution to identity politics, at least in the case of Revolution Q, is to simply shed your identity. Only by doing this, it seems, can freedom of speech exist. At least, that would be the implication that the author…
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ISBN 13: 9780140104783 February 12, 2024 Dark Victory is a well-researched book. The subtitle reads Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, which one would think would narrow the scope significantly. The outcome, however, is that Ronald Reagan really does not feature all that much. It…
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ISBN: 0-88207-749-X February 4, 2024 Stuart Briscoe wants to bring life back into the Church. As a minister, of course, this is an appropriate desire. The author died on August 3, 2022, but although he is passed, the character he has chosen is appropriate regardless…
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ISBN: 978-0425241462 February 1, 2024 Victor Ostrovsky's other book review, By Way of Deception, can be read here. This, might be a necessary step to understand this work, Black Ghosts, as it is a "fictional work" although given Ostrovsky's background, it might not be all…
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ISBN: 9798218033958 January 30, 2024 Mr. Allen Taylor did something bold. He decided to publish an anthology. If that in and of itself was not enough, he decided to publish stories about Biblical themes without the usual characters. The settings all feature moments of punishment:…
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ISBN: 979-8888453278 January 28, 2024 Congressman Troy E. Nehls undertook the seismic effort to publish a book about border security along with US policy and politics. The stuff in these pages is a red-hot issue right now. Nehls has unique insights from his perch within…
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ISBN: 978-0060959685 January 23, 2024 A book about Zen does not need to say much in order to say more than a person can handle. A book about physics often must say much more, although the essence of the equations and ideas once firmly grasped,…
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ISBN: 978-0-224-09747-5 January 19, 2024 William Boyd read all of the former James Bond narratives chronologically, reportedly, to write Solo—his own James Bond novel set in the year of 1969. A cursory perusal of the sales of the book seems to suggest that though the…
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ISBN: 978-0-7643-6636-9 January 18, 2024 Editor's Note: The editors of The Book Light were made aware of the publishing of this book via press surrounding its release. Subsequently, Schiffer Publishing—the publisher of the book—was contacted to inquire about a Reviewer's Copy. Schiffer Publishing sent a…
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ISBN 978-0-345-47615-9 January 15, 2024 Back in the early 2000's everyone went a little crazy over Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code. It was not the case that there was no mystery, but of course, Brown had the incentive of wanting to sell copies of his…
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ISBN: 978-1616386108 December 23, 2023 Eeking out another book review before the end of the year is easy if your book happens to be The Harbinger by Jonathan Cahn. It's easy as the clarity of the book is immediately apparent. Cahn has adopted a narrative…
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ISBN: 978-0312056131 December 21, 2023 There are a handful of books in the world that a person should read if they think they have an idea of what the world is all about. Ostrovosky's book is one of those reads. It is not an especially…
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ISBN: 978-0060833169 November 30, 2023 Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver tips the scales at over a thousand pages. None of these pages are wasted in the telling of the tale, as the subject matter concerns the foundation of the Royal Society. The Royal Society oftentimes takes the…
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ISBN: 978-1250130334 September 17, 2023 They referred to it as "Sacricide". This term perhaps reflects the entirety of the story contained in this book. The planned kidnapping/murder of George Washington was thought of in the same manner as killing something sacred. It is clear that…
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ISBN 978-0947712341 September 4, 2023 One wonders what Gordon Welchman might have done or been if there had not been a war, and had he not been invited to Bletchley Park to break German codes. He might still have taught the first computer programming course.
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ISBN 978-0517693117 August 20, 2023 Some books are phenomenons. The Hitchhiker's Guide is a cult classic. Once in awhile, a reader might review some previous works with a new eye. For instance, the last time this reviewer read this work, Douglas Adams was alive. He…
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ISBN 978-1629994765 August 7, 2023 Johnathan Cahn has become a controversial pastor. A cursory glance through the internet shows many differing beliefs about whether or not he is a false Prophet. Upon reading his book, The Paradigm there was nothing necessarily prophetic as such. Rather,…
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ISBN 978-0452289574 July 31, 2023 Back in 2007, John Perkins was busy writing about some deep, dark conspiracies that grace the pages of his book The Secret History of an American Empire. Much of what he had to say concerned the NSA, hitmen and regime…
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ISBN: 978-0385348713 July 28, 2023 There are books that exist that are reads and then there are books that exist that are experiences. The Splendid and The Vile is most assuredly the latter. It is not simply history one is reading, but a moment in…
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ISBN: 978-0062466167 July 2, 2023 Remember about six years ago or so when suddenly everyone seemed to be an expert on Alexander Hamilton due to the release of the musical Hamilton? America seems to lag when it comes to reading history, but if someone makes…
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ISBN: 978-0312205331 June 12, 2023 Sometimes, one can listen to a piece of music they have never heard and realize that something is discordant with the composition. Whether it be a new work, or an old re-interpretation, something just feels "off"—like the thumbprint of the…
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ISBN: 0-300-11981-X May 14, 2023 Some books sit on shelves as silent witnesses to matters nobody really wants to know or talk about. It's almost as if they exist to remind people of information that is unpleasant so that these same people (who have such…
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ISBN: 978-1-7342834-0-2 April 24, 2023 It is not often that one reads autobiographies of living people—or at least it seems that it takes death to make people who have written an autobiography worthy of having written something that is notable. Mike Lindell of MyPillow fame,…
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April 11, 2023 In this story is some World War II history that is not commonly told. The fact that the Captain of the submarine, Joseph F. Enright, is telling the story makes it all the much better. The fact that Captain Enright has been…
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ISBN: 9780679725220 March 30, 2023 This book was one in a stack of books received as a "bargain". A hardback for around fifty cents, the quick explanation of the work being about an "alternate earth" seemed interesting enough to warrant two quarters. Upon reading the…
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ISBN: 0-89141-825-3 February 14, 2023 Coming from a background of knowing more than average about World War II and the Air Forces involved, it is always interesting to run across a book concerning some facet which is perhaps, more overlooked. The Black Sheep is such…
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ISBN 978-1-9821-1340-7 December 19, 2022 The Art of Her Deal by Mary Jordan was a surprising read. The best analogy might be how once in ancient Egypt, every Pharaoh would depict himself with abs that were like six-packs, and arms like small tree trunks while…
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ISBN: 0684831309 December 6, 2022 Note: This review centers on the First Edition of the work as it was later re-released in 1996 with updated declassified material. The Code-Breakers is a classical work in cryptography circles. The subject matter is fittingly dramatic: A group of…
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ISBN: 0684831309 December 6, 2022 To glance around the internet is to discover that highly influential people love Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson. Of course, if one pays careful attention, one also notices an undercurrent of something that one does not typically see when one thinks…
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ISBN: 978-0-7653-2695-9 December 6, 2022 People of the Black Sun is in the genre of historical fiction. Really, a better category would probably be "Mythological Historical Fiction". All of these labels fall under a much larger one, that one might simply call "Plausible." Why all…
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ISBN: 0-679-40836-3 Dec. 5, 2022 Reading a book about Richard Feynman is always a risky proposition. You never know if what you are reading is actual history, embellished history, something Feynman invented as a kind of legend, or some combination of all the above. It…
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ISBN 0-446-35325-6 Dec. 5, 2022 The Art of the Deal by Donald Trump is a book where there is no mistaking the voice. In its pages, we are thrust into 1980's New York upper crust social scenes complete with all the turmoil and corruption that…
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