![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But don’t think Cook would ever stoop to cloyingly sweet salutations and soothing platitudes of “happily ever after”. There are almost none of the old guard left, and whoever lives still, bruised and battered and exhausted by the constant struggle, has not much time left.Īs we have lived with them through thick and thin, through their bitter defeats and elating victories, their slow demise feels somehow deeply personal. And the crucial change is, obviously, its people. It still goes on, united by a common dream, but in nearly forty years of its history told by Cook over the course of nine books it has changed so profoundly it’s hardly recognizable for what it once was. ![]() What remains – a wound, a bruise, a slowly healing scratch – whatever the case, it’s a sign that reality won despite our best efforts of will □Īnd so it is for the Black Company. Over time this book came to resemble a tender spot one only gingerly agrees to touch, for it is a reminder of a past encounter with unyielding reality. Mostly, I think, because Soldiers Live is an elegy to Black Company so heartfelt and bittersweet and true – to its own history, sentiments, internal logic and the author’s worldview – that I found the necessary return to it surprisingly tasking. I’ve read it over a year ago, but somehow couldn’t force myself to write down a review. Soldiers Live is the final installment in Glen Cook’s Black Company series. Series: The Chronicles of the Black Company ![]()
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I can't believe I managed to finish this, but only because it's a buddy read. I never thought i'd give a Goosebumps book 1 star. I can't form a coherent review of all the things in this book that make me want to rage. The adult teacher is a cruel bastard adding to the fatphobia. It's like Stine wrote himself into a corner, forgot what was established, and I question how he thought this was ok for children with the extreme fatphobic comments and body horror?Įvery time I thought it couldn't get worse. It's like the kids, who KNEW this, completely said to hell with it even though things had gotten extremely bad. ![]() In the first book (spoiler alert) it's established that ripping up the pictures means everything will return to normal. Way to make any overweight child feel like shit, just give them this book (don't, please please don't). There is some intense body horror that is too much for a children's book. Most Goosebumps books don't have a sequel, a few do.and this one should not have been one of them. What the FUCK did I just read?! I have never been so angry at a book before! I've been angry yes, but the fact this is ment for CHILDREN makes it worse! ![]() ![]() ![]() His insights into the successes and failures of government science will be eye-opening to the general public. Ruscetti offers a true insider’s portrait of nearly four decades at the center of public health. In 1991, Ruscetti received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Institutes of Health.ĭr. Ruscetti was deeply involved in performing some of the most critical HIV-AIDS research in the 1980s, pioneered discoveries in understanding the workings of the human immune system in the 1990s, isolating a new family of mouse leukemia viruses linked to chronic diseases in 2009, and offers his insights into the recent COVID-19 pandemic. 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![]() ![]() For Leland Gaunt, the pleasure of doing business lies chiefly in seeing how much people will pay for their most secret dreams and desires. At Needful Things there’s something for everyone.Īnd, of course, for everyone there is a price. ![]() By the end of the week, Mr Gaunt’s business is fairly booming. ![]() Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk is his first customer, and Brian finds just what he wants most in all the world: a 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Leland Gaunt is a stranger – and he calls his shop Needful Things. It’s a small town, and Stephen King fans might think they know its secrets pretty well, they’ve been here before. Castle Rock, Maine, where Polly Chalmers runs You Sew and Sew and Sheriff Alan Pangborn is in charge of keeping the peace. ![]() |