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"There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA." After...

"You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will." The book opens in friendly, endearing and rather familiar fashion -...

"The only way to learn is to live.” My opinion has altered dramatically from the opening pages to the book's end. I felt, at first, that...

"Spirals.... this town is contaminated with spirals." I would not classify myself as an avid reader of manga, however, the works of Junji...

"Nothing like lying in your grave with a bullet hole through your head to make you think about your life." Book 3 in 'The Thursday Murder...

"People say of me, 'She's peculiar.' They do not understand me. If they did they would say so oftener and with emphasis." Mary MacLane is...

"More women are murdering people these days...If you ignore the context, it is a real sign of progress." Having raced through Richard...

“In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you.” Prior to reading...

"I can't fashion myself into a different person who might be better suited to be his friend." Published in 1912, 'The Judgement' is short...

"How we drank in the transfigured look on the sufferer's face, how we bathed our cheeks in the warmth of that justice- achieved at long...

"One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in his bed he had been changed into a monstrous bug…"...

Originally posted 2nd March 2022. "We can break step. Magnificent living beings that we are, we humans are free to unravel our patterns."...

"Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?" Few books can lay claim to being as...

"You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity....

"To come to the realization that the very aim of understanding an individual...might be inherently impossible." I have to admit, this...

Review by Ridley Coote "Broadmoor will never finish, Broadmoor is here forever." No mental health institution, nor prison for that...