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Review of The Champion of Garathorm
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Review of Count Brass
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Review of Collision Course by Robert Silverberg
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Review of Solomon Kane: Death’s Black Riders
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Review of Every Day Is for the Thief
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Review of Bloodstone
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Review of Bloodborne: The Healing Thirst
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Review of The Sorcerer’s Slave
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Review of Neon City (1991)
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Knife of Ice: A Review
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Review of Eye in the Labyrinth
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Review of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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Review of The Dark Is Death’s Friend
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Review of The Last Faith
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Review of Phantom Memories
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Review of Bloodborne: The Death of Sleep
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Review of The Last Light of the Sun
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Review of the Daughter of Doctor Moreau
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Olde Swords Reign Overview
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Banners of Ruin Review
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Review of The Sisters Mederos
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Basic Fantasy RPG Overview
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Shadowdark Overview
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Overview of “The Gygax 75 Challenge”
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Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: Review and Criticism
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Religion in FromSoftware’s Fantasy Games
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Overview of Syma: Incense and Iron Dungeon Crawling
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Review of The Far Side of the Dollar
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Remarkable Books I read in 2022
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Top Performances in Hannibal Lecter Movies and Shows
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Rings of Power Missed Opportunities: Sauron
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Review of The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974)
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Bilbo Baggins: Burglar
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Dual Identity in Elden Ring
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Review of Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
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Star Wars & the Trouble with Persistent Storytelling
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Review of Hollow
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Review of N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season
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Triangle Strategy Prologue Demo Review
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Review of The Wisdom of Crowds
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Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
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Review of The Trouble with Peace
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Review of Criminal: Wrong Time, Wrong Place
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Review of Criminal: The Last of the Innocent
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Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
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A Review of Lovecraft Country
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Review of Criminal: The Sinners
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Review of Promise of Blood
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The Lord of the Rings and Joseph Campbell’s Functions of Mythology
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Review of Criminal: The Dead and the Dying
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Review of Kings of the Wyld
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Review of The Memory Police
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Review of Stumptown, Volume 1
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Review of Black Science, Volume 9: No Authority But Yourself
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Optimism in Mad Max: Fury Road
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Review of The Immortal Hulk, Volume Three
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Review of Monstress, Volume 4
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Review of A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
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Review of The Immortal Hulk, Vol. 2: The Green Door
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Review of The Immortal Hulk, Vol. 1
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Encourages Betrayal
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Review of China Dream
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Kratos as a Father and Role Model in God of War (2018)
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Review and Analysis of Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu
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Review of Mistborn
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Review of Black Science, Volume 8: Later Than You Think
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Review of The Galton Case by Ross Macdonald
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Review of Upgrade (2018)
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A Review of The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan
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Review of Monstress, Vol. 3
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Review of Only to Sleep
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Review of Andrzej Sapkowski's Season of Storms
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Review of Marvel's Spirits of Vengeance
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Review of Monstress, Volume Two
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Review of Black Science, Volume 7: Extinction is the Rule
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Dark Souls, Chrono Trigger, and the Long Journey
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Review of Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
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Review of The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
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The Tragic Paradox of Using the Dark Side of the Force
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Review of Sula
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Review of The Tengu’s Game of Go
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Review of Black Science, Vol. 6: Forbidden Realms and Hidden Truths
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Review of Lord of the Darkwood by Lian Hearn
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Review of Autumn Princess, Dragon Child
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Denouement in Video Games
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Review: Emperor of the Eight Islands (Tale of Shikanoko Series)
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Perception of Time in Fallout 4
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"King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" (2017) Review
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A Review of Sapkowski's The Lady of the Lake
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Review of Black Science, volume 5: True Atonement
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Review of Black Science, Volume 4: Godworld
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Review of The Way Some People Die
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Bloodborne: There Is No Cure for What Ails You
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A Review of Made to Kill
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Review of News of the World
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Review of The Moving Target
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Review of The Tower of Swallows
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Review of The Chill
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Surrogate Fatherhood in Video Games
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Review of The Water Knife
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Christianity in African Literature
Christianity has a long, complicated past in Africa, but readers see where many Africans accept Christianity alongside their traditions, blending them together to form a new, African idea.
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Review of Black Science, Volume 3: Vanishing Pattern
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Review of The New Concise History of the Crusades
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Review of Sword of Destiny
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Review of Philippa Ballantine’s Geist
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Review of Carter & Lovecraft
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Forgiveness in Dark Souls
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Review of Black Science Vol. 2: Welcome, Nowhere
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Review of Half a War
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Review of The Buried Life
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A Review of The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
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Review of Black Science: How to Fall Forever
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Review of The Thief
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Daredevil: Fisk and Murdock as Foils
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Review of Half the World
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A Review of Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn
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Review of She Who Waits
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Contrasting Leadership in The Godfather
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New Game Plus in Chrono Trigger and Dark Souls 2
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Review of The River Between
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Review of A Walk Among the Tombstones
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Review of Half a King
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Analysis of Jerome Weidman’s "My Father Sits in the Dark"
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Review of Baptism of Fire
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Major Themes in Star Wars: Crimson Empire
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Review of Tomorrow, the Killing
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The Moral Universe of the Dark Souls Games and Demon’s Souls
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Review of Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
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Review of Laxdaela Saga
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Descartes, Bacon, and Self-Directed Learning
For Bacon and Descartes, the future of learning rest with individuals questioning and examining their own experiences and not relying on the opinions and models of the past to form their judgments.
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Review of The Time of Contempt
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Review of The Golem and the Jinni
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Review of Blood of Elves
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Review of The Return Man
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Kafka, Camus, and Colonial Justice
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Why Aristotle Would Like Skyrim (Sort Of)
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Review of A Dance with Dragons
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Review of Joe Abercrombie's Red Country
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Review of Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War
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Review of Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie
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Review of George R. R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows
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Review of Batman: Gates of Gotham
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Review of Gordon R. Dickson’s Soldier, Ask Not
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Review of A Storm of Swords
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Review of Pompeii
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Review of Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
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Review of Methland
In Methland Nick Reding examines the decline of small town America and the drug, meth, associated with it.
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Review of George R. R. Martin’s A Clash of Kings
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Review of Atlas Shrugged
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Review of Raymond Chandler's The High Window
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The Role of Women in the Epic of Gilgamesh
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Review of Janet Burroway's Writing Fiction
This book is primarily a text for aiding fiction writers as they explore the various aspects of their craft.
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Winter’s Bone: Book and Film Comparison
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Review of The Lady in the Lake
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Nietzsche and Authentic Living
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Responsibility in The Brothers Karamozov
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Inception and the Philosophy of Pragmatism
For all the interesting science-fiction elements and the exploration of the psycho-physical nature of dreaming Inception is ultimately grounded in basic principles of philosophical pragmatism.
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Review of Winter's Bone
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Review of A Game of Thrones
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Review of Lavinia
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Sauron, Jadis, and the Aesthetic of Evil
In their fantasy novels Tolkien and Lewis show the different paths evil may take.
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Review of The Big Sleep
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Review of The Coming of the Horseclans
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Heroic Journey in Amos Tutuola's Palm-Wine Drinkard
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Review of Maps and Legends
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Review of The Skrayling Tree
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Review of The Dreamthief's Daughter
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Review of The Dwarf
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Review of Samuel Cohen's 50 Essays
This anthology of makes an excellent introduction to the genre acceptable for any upper level high school to college-level composition class.
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Review of Frontier Gothic
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Review of Drood
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Review of The Walking Dead Volume One
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Ethical Judgment in Fable 2
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The American Class System in House of Seven Gables and Wieland
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Review of 'Salem's Lot
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Review of Hamlet 2
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Reader and Character Connections in A Feast of Snakes
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Review of Purity of Blood
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Night of the Living Dead 1990
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Understanding Zombies as Metaphors in George A. Romero's Dead Trilogy
In each film the audience is invited to see another aspect of the zombies and what they mean not only to the characters in the movie but also to the viewers and the world around them.
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Review of Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
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Review of a Wizard of Earthsea
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Review of Final Fantasy Five
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Review of the Ren and Stimpy Show's Seasons One and Two
The misadventures of a Chihuahua and blue-nosed cat, Ren and Stimpy, make for hilarious if grotesque comedy.
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Road to Perdition and Non-Traditional Idea of Family
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Review of Gentlemen of the Road
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Review of an Iliad
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Brotherly Competition in Final Fantasy 12
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The Savior-Tyrant Dilemma in Frank Herbert's Dune Series
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Review of Heretics of Dune
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Labyrinth (1986) and Return to Oz (1985) as Metanarratives
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The Nature of Victory and Defeat in H.P. Lovecraft's Fiction
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Review of God Emperor of Dune
Given the slow pace and lack of action, Herbert’s fourth Dune novel does not match the effort of the others.
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Review of Darkness at Noon
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Review of A Grain of Wheat
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Review of The Life and Times of Michael K.
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Review of Haroun and the Sea of Stories
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The Character of Cassandra in Agamemnon by Aeschylus
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The Hero of Dune
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Heroic Fantasy and Ethnic Identity
The pinnacle protagonists of heroic fantasy share troubled ethnic backgrounds that develop the characters’ personalities and influence their actions within the stories.