chianti_cimex_reads rated Outer Dark: 5 stars
Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy
A woman bears her brother's child, a boy, the brother leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he …
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"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry. Yes, indeed." - Mary Oliver
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chianti_cimex_reads rated Persepolis: 5 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated The great god Pan: 3 stars
The great god Pan by Arthur Machen
Arthur Machen's first book, THE GREAT GOD PAN, published in 1894, is still one of the greatest works of weird …
The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 1) by Robert E. Howard
"Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities . . . there was an Age undreamed …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Conan of Cimmeria (Conan Series 2): 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Bear: a novel: 5 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Mon père saigne l'histoire: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Black Hole: 4 stars
Black Hole by Charles Burns
The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s …
chianti_cimex_reads rated This Wound Is a World: 4 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated I Am Legend: 4 stars
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, Richard Matheson, Claude Elsen (SF Masterworks)
See work: openlibrary.org/works/OL64225W
chianti_cimex_reads rated The Crossing: 3 stars
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (Border Trilogy (2))
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Equus (Penguin Plays): 3 stars
chianti_cimex_reads rated Beloved: 5 stars
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beloved is a 1987 novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War, it tells the …
chianti_cimex_reads rated Howl and Other Poems: 2 stars
Ernest Hemingway: Old Man and the Sea Novel by Ernest Hemingway Illustrated Edition (2022, Independently Published)
Old Man and the Sea Novel by Ernest Hemingway Illustrated Edition by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and …