Archive for July, 2009

July 25, 2009 0

Sex, Power And Magic In Rhode Island Edition

By Some Dude in Fiction, Novel

The Witches Of Eastwick by John Updike [Please note that this review does include spoilers.] The Witches Of Eastwick is my introduction to John Updike. (It was a coin toss between this and Rabbit, Run and Rabbit lost.) Without ever having read anything by Updike I knew that there was an aura about him that [...]

July 14, 2009 1

Pelphase-Interphase-Gusphase, Repeat Edition

By Some Dude in Fiction, Novel

The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess In The Wanting Seed, Anthony Burgess creates a world in which overpopulation has a hand in the following: babies are turned into phosphorus pentoxide; homosexuality is outright advertised by the government (complete with posters that say “It’s Sapiens to be Homo”); women are not only discouraged from getting pregnant [...]