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Red and the Black, The

Power and Self Destruction Author: Stendhal Julien Sorel may not have a high station in society yet, but he will. His intelligence is matched by his brutal determination to be somebody, either by entering a church career or becoming someone in the military. How he gets there doesn’t matter. Getting there – being the most intelligent, the most powerful, the most sought after, having that lofty station is all that matters. If Julien has to leave a few broken people in his wake, then so be it. Life is a game and he is determined to play it to the max. [...]

2022-07-26T08:45:14-07:00March 27th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Darkness on the Edge of Town

It's The End of the World As We Know It Author: Brian Keene What would you do if you woke up one morning and it was still dark? What would you do if there was no sun, no stars, no sky, just an all pervading, limitless night that keeps lasting and lasting? What would you do if you were stranded in a small town, cut off, and you didn’t even know if the rest of the world existed anymore? For Robbie and his girlfriend Christie, these what-ifs are a reality. They woke up to no sun, no birds, just a small, [...]

2022-07-26T08:46:42-07:00March 27th, 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original “Psycho”

The Story of the Man Who Inspired Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill Author: Harold Schechter Harold Schechter’s Deviant is the true crime account of Ed Gein, a seemingly unassuming man in a rural town in Wisconsin whose crimes inspired cinema depictions of psychopathic killers all the way from Norman Bates in Psycho to Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs (as well as others – consider the house “decorations” in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.) This audiobook was my first encounter with this famous killer, and it was surprising to see that this man’s nightmarish existence has inspired some of the darkest, most [...]

2022-07-26T08:47:52-07:00March 27th, 2022|Tags: |
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