![]() ![]() Pullman also made some particularly outspoken remarks in a couple of interviews. It also contained an incident in which a being claiming to be God is killed, which really raised some hackles. His best-selling His Dark Materials trilogy was very negative about the church, which irked some. He’s also capable of making Christians incandescent with indignation at some of the things he says. Some years back, The Independent declared that Pullman is ‘capable of lighting up the dullest day or greyest spirit with the incandescence of his imagination’. He has justifiably been acclaimed as one of Britain’s finest writers, having won several awards including the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and the internationally prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial award, as well as receiving a CBE. ![]() He has a sharp mind, a clever wit, and he’s a brilliant writer. When I interviewed Philip Pullman, I found him genial, generous and engaging. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ – a review ![]()
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![]() "Doctor," he said.īarrett reached for his cane and, standing, limped across the hallway, stopping in front of the shorter man. The door to Deutsch's bedroom opened, and his male secretary, Hanley, came out. Still, he'd had no way of knowing it would take this long. Edith must be getting restless downstairs. ![]() He sat erect on the straight-back chair, staring at the door to Deutsch's bedroom. He was a tall, slightly overweight man in his middle fifties, his thinning blond hair unchanged in color, though his trimmed beard showed traces of white. Barrett lifted his right leg over his left. ![]() "Return from the Grave" "The Girl Who Wouldn't Die" - always sensational, rarely factual. The old man's chain of newspapers and magazines were forever printing articles on the subject. What did Deutsch want of him? Something to do with parapsychology, most likely. ![]() He drew his watch from its vest pocket and raised the lid. ![]() The interminable wait in this corridor while disconcerted-looking men and women hurried in and out of Deutsch's bedroom, glancing at him occasionally. The driving rain, the cold, the two-hour ride from Manhattan in one of Deutsch's long black leatherupholstered limousines. He felt rather like a character in some latter-day Gothic romance. It had been raining hard since five o'clock that morning. ![]() ![]() I’ll get to that later though, for now I’ll just explain the others:ĥ. So this is a collection of 10 short stories, only the first 4 of which really refer to the Yellow King. If you haven’t read it and you’re wondering why it sounds familiar, it might be because elements of it were borrowed for the first season of True Detective. Some of the tales in this book managed to induce a lingering discomfort (I read most of them just before going to bed and afterwards lay awake, thinking of the sinister King, sitting on his throne in his tattered yellow rags.), and overall, this book is pretty neat. (I do own a copy of the Complete Weird Tales of Chambers, but I haven’t got around to it yet.) The King in Yellow was one of Chamber’s earliest works, and it remains his best known he spent most of the rest of his career writing popular romance novels, but nobody remembers them. Usually I wait until I’ve read everything (or at least all of the good stuff) by an author of short fiction, but this is a little different. ![]() This is the first time that I’ve reviewed a single book of short stories. Wordsworth Editions – 2010 (Originally published in 1895) ![]() ![]() Indeed, India was an agricultural and industrially backward nation at the time. The British rule in India was followed by a series of bloody events and plunders. Shashi is also a member of the parliament. ![]() He has been featured in multiple magazines worldwide, and as a speaker tries to tell the real story behind India’s lack of functionality. Shashi Tharoor is the author of many bestsellers, diplomat, and a politician who strives to preserve India’s authority by expressing the details. “ An Era of Darkness” reveals the horrors and atrocities committed by the British invaders, and how they managed to crush India from within. The battle for interest is a part of our subconscious mind, and many Empires such as the British one, took things too far by fully depriving the conquered people of its belongings and rights. Well, it’s not just India, but the world has always been prone to violence and territorial expansionism. ![]() Who Should Read “An Era of Darkness”? And Why? Without further delay, find out what happened in the age of territorial expansion of the British Empire. Having the undistorted reality served on a silver platter is not a realistic scenario, due to an overload of false and forged documents. There are literally hundreds if not thousands of unanswered questions, regarding the Indo-British history. ![]() 7 min read ⌚ The History of the British Empire in India ![]() |