Category Archives: first10pages review

I’m not concerned about whether Rhett survives the duel. I’m more curious about how the author is going to fill up the remaining 480 pages. Continue reading →

GONE WITH THE WIND sold for the unprecedented cost of $3 in 1936. Continue reading →

…here it is, the book that everyone else read in high school except me. I guess I grew up protected from phonies. Continue reading →

…goes slightly against my thesis presentation criteria – discovery of common denominators in the first ten pages of selected fictional novels I have not read, which have achieved a solid degree of mainstream recognition where the book or the author has stood the test of time, such as it is (say that three times, fast, with quiche in your mouth!). Continue reading →

Elaine Showalter, in her preface to the 1997 Ecco Paperback edition commented, “Today, even those who have never read the book, and never seen the play or film, use March’s image of the “bad seed” as a proverbial term for an evil child.” Continue reading →

In a more hard-core version, the film of “Song of the Loon” would have been called “Song of the Loins.” Continue reading →

I originally read these first ten pages standing in the aisle at Powell’s, thinking that I could take notes and remember enough to write my blog post later. Continue reading →

WAS HAMLET GAY? Continue reading →

Brendan Behan was a poet and a playwright whose material came mostly from the incarcerated periods of his life as well as his connection to the Irish Republican Army. Continue reading →