Category Archives: Sample Reviews

Some examples of Gene Stewart’s nonfiction.

You Don’t Even Have Time For Only The Best

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Gene Stewart

Take this seriously: Read only the absolute best you can find. If a book or story begins to fail you, toss it over your shoulder and find one that compels you to keep reading. You think you have all the … Continue reading →

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The Erotic Novels of Everett Bedford

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Gene Stewart

A guest blog from Everett Bedford in which he discusses genuine, unrestrained alternatives to various shades of pale vanilla imitation that have currently cluttered the  erotica market.  Want the good stuff?  Here is some of the best there is, just … Continue reading →

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Midnight In Peking, A Review

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Gene Stewart

Midnight In China by Paul French Penguin, 2012, 1st American Edition ISBN: 978-0-14-312100-8 260pp, Hardcover, $26/US b&w and color photo section source list, no index A Review by Gene Stewart Midnight In Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman … Continue reading →

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The Ocean At the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman, A Review

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Gene Stewart

The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman William Morrow, 2013, 178pp hc, First Edition ISBN: 973 0 06 225565 5 $25.99 (a bargain at twice the price) A Review by Gene Stewart Our narrator at the start … Continue reading →

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Mermaid: The Body Found — Some Conflicting Reactions

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Gene Stewart

On DSC CH last night there was a documentary that had me going for a bit. It concerned a navy sonar “accident” that beached a pod of whales on a beach in South Africa. Supposedly, a couple brothers, young teenagers, … Continue reading →

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KEEPER OF THE FLAME

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Gene Stewart

George Cukor’s film KEEPER OF THE FLAME, starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, from 1942, details precisely and with some detail what has been done to us in order to introduce fascism into the USA. It’s remarkable and should be … Continue reading →

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A Montage of Familiar Images

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Gene Stewart

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN is not a fantasy, it is a deconstruction of and commentary on Medieval High Fantasy and contains layered referents from fiction and history, including Norse, Celtic, and Arabic myth, Elizabeth Bathory, Joan of Arc, Tolkien, … Continue reading →

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A Review of Floating Staircase by Ronald Malfi

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Gene Stewart

In Floating Staircase, Islands In the Stream by Hemingway, who is saluted overtly, Bradbury’s Dandelion Wine, and Thomas Harris’s Silence of the Lambs, echo like footsteps in an empty house. Flannery O’Connor’s shade flits by. There is a whiff of … Continue reading →

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Jack the Ripper and the Case for Scotland Yard’s Prime Suspect by Robert House Forward by Roy Hazelwood Published by Wiley, 2011, 1st edition 356pp, photos, notes, index ISBN: 978-0-470-93899-7 $19.95 Trade Paperback A Review

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Gene Stewart

Aaron Kozminski was a Polish Jew chased by oppression, bigotry, and pogroms from his native country. His father had long since died and at least one older brother had already left. Aaron was 15. He fled to England, ending up … Continue reading →

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Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today by Katherine Ramsland

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Gene Stewart

…Piercing the Darkness is the single best book to read if you’re wondering how much of the vampire myth is content to remain in its dusty coffin, and how much appeals to you as a living tradition or way of life… Continue reading →

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