Tag: literature

Cormac McCarthy Finally Dead

Finally, after seemingly endless decades of waiting, America can celebrate the death of Cormac McCarthy, the worst novelist ever. McCarthy was known for such repulsive hack tripe as “Blood Meridian” and “The Road.” Along with edgy and predictable shock shlock, he also wrote kiddie romance…

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Sunday Insights: Hardback Books are Snakelike Trick

Seriously, why do they keep making these? I generally refuse to buy them, but was really excited about Robert Cinaldini’s “Pre-Suasion” (plus I was ordering some other stuff at the time, and it had just came out) and bought it when it was only available…

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Review of J. M. Coetzee’s “Disgrace”

Joe Webb Occidental Observer March 18, 2015 Disgrace , the novel by J. M. Coetzee (London: Secker and Warburg, 1999). This novel is about as spectacular as Camp of the Saints , by Jeanne Raspal of 45 years ago. It describes the fix we have…

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New Degenerate Literary Genre: Dinosaur Erotica

Jacob Sloan DisInfo October 22, 2013 Yes, this is real and apparently quite popular. A sub-genre of the fast-growing “monster erotica” book realm, softcore dinosaur porn is epitomized by authors Alara Branwen and Christie Sims, who claim to earn six figures churning out e-books for…

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