The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

Enjoyed reading the original story.

Did not enjoy a small section that had slavery in it, and unflattering descriptions of those folks. Kinda glad most modern movies of the story have those parts removed.

Is a fun short read, like A Christmas Carol.

Did read the story online, via the ( Read more... )

Classic horror.

Written in a style of journal entries and news stories.

Has Dracula, Renfield, and Van Helsing.

Renfield is in a sanitarium. Likes eating living things. Once Dracula makes it to England, starts to rave about Master being near.

Some folks get converted to vampires. Johnathan and others work with Van Helsing to find and ( Read more... )

Science fiction. Was part of an Anthology book "The Science Fiction Hall Of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964."

"I want to be smart ( Read more... )

"People always have the kind of government they want. When they want change, they must change it."
-- The Weapon Shop, A. E. von Vogt (1942)

Science fiction.

Starts out a bit rough emotionally, for me. Gets interesting, then at about half way through the story, a further interesting twist.

The interesting twist is that a main character is able to reset reality so that a terrible event never occurred.

Kinda intense and grim for most of the story. Ends on a positive note. Overall ( Read more... )

Science fiction. Self-gift purchased from Vroman's Hastings Ranch Apr2024.

Liked it. Space opera, humanity only sentient living civilization. Has space travel and FTL using cryosleep.

An ancient artifact is found, and the main character becomes fused to the creature/artifact/automomous sentient thing.

Adventures ensue, as upon the main ( Read more... )

Purchased books you can keep and re-read. Write notes in them. Share them. They become part of your Self.

Others see them on your bookshelves and then know of you. You see other people's books and their Selves and learn of them.

Did some searching of science-fiction book award winners.

Looked online at the award winners from year 2020 through year 2024.

Looked at the awards from:

• Hugo
• Nebula
• Philip K Dick
• goodreads

I now have about eleven candidates to purchase.

Figure I'll first try my favorite local used bookstore, then try the last remaining new bookstore that I am ( Read more... )

Re-read of this Science Fiction classic.

Now that I am over a half-century of age, appreciate additional aspects of the book.

The passage that lets the Reader know the Fremen had some influence over themselves on Arrakis:

"We know the Guild wants a prohibitive price for weather satellites ( Read more... )

Science Fiction. Was fun, enjoyed it.

Was a gift from my Youngest, for my birthday in year 2023 (thank you, J2!).