Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others. At the very same time, they mutually execrate their masters when viewed separately. It was so on our plantation. When Colonel Lloyd's ( Read more... )

A maddening stench filled the forecourt. Those corpses at the bottom of the heap had already putrefied, the eyeballs rolling out on strings of goo and insects working the flesh free of the bones - it seemed that even the blue sky overhead would be corrupted by the rank scene, with its foul miasma and eye-watering stink ( Read more... )

The road lay in shadow. To either side of it were endless rolling plains. Through they were dotted with what looked to be rocky mountains and woods, these did nothing to lift the air of desolation. Spread with gray clouds, the sky occasionally carried the growl of distant thunder. It would probably rain ( Read more... )

'The moon seemed to glow a whole notch more intensely than usual. Above the trees and rocks of the courtyard, moonlight swirled like silvery clouds. D stood at the edge of a glimmering circular pond nearly in the center of the garden. That alone was enough to make both the moonlight and all the artistic sculptures shipped from the Capital pale ( Read more... )

"She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men ( Read more... )

I haven't written about that sexy D in a very long time. The recent books have gotten better and have more well rounded characters. The latest book to come out is actually a collection of three novellas; Dark Nocturne, An Ode to Imagined Fall, and Legend of the War Fiends, which is by far my favorite ( Read more... )

( From 'Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii' )

Oh, beautiful for spacious skies ( Read more... )

I think I complained here before that someone insisted I borrow a book from her at work. I can't say no, so I did. I even got 30-some pages into it, but couldn't go further. I was planning on reading Mort next, and Terry Pratchett writing about death can only be put off for so long.

( On the way for some curry... )

So, the novel Devil May Cry 2 came out a little while ago (although very overdue).  It's fortunately not a novelization of the second game; it takes place between the first and second games.  There's one part that stands out for making me lol in the breakroom while reading it.

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"Come, you insolent traitor!  You who dare defy Lord Mundus.  Be proud ( Read more... )