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For all the brilliance and the awards that Maclean had been heaped with he didn’t have a very romantic notion about writing nor about his own ability. MacLean himself had a very clear concept of his work: "I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique." Many...

Inspiration or Insipidity

We’ve seen a lot of plagiarism; in literature, in music, in any work of creative ingenuity basically. Writers have been caught red-handed and all their glory lost in a matter of seconds, which took years to build. Just recently we saw Fareed Zakaria, the guy from CNN, admitting to lifting portions from The New Yorker....

Books Read in 2012

The final post of this year is a list of all the books we've read. Although, we haven't reviewed all of them, here's a quick glance at the books and their ratings. We promise to come back with lots more book reviews and book-related pieces in the new year! See you on the other side....

Fear is the Key – Review

Book: Fear is the Key Author: Alistair MacLean Year: 1961 "My red rose had turned to white." That is how the story begins in this vintage MacLean thriller. Set up in the Gulf of Mexico in the year 1958 it has, like many other MacLean books, the sea as an important part of the story. The...