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​Literary Criticism and Reviews: Goodreads Reviews

​Now, Goodreads.com of course is not a peer-reviewed academic journal or a venue for work contracted by a publishing house.  Most of my writing, after all, is, well, “professional” like that—either an article for a journal vetted by professors who are experts in a given topic, or something a reference publisher like Salem Press specifically asks for and then pays for.  These are things that go on a curriculum vita, whereas Goodreads is not.

Moreover, I have to confess that my attention to Goodreads really waxes and wanes.  That is, sometimes I get on a great streak and am really good about doing reviews of the random things I happen to be reading.  Other times I mean to, but I may get behind, and then I grow a little too stale on the piece and hence end up posting nothing—highly frustrating.  And occasionally I just forget altogether, and it ends up being a year or two between reviews...

Oh, yes—  And the chances of my doing a Goodreads review of anything by Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein, or any other author I have read for pleasure prior to 2013 or 2014 when I first got on the site, are just about zero.  I suppose it could happen after a more recent reread, though.  But definitely not common.

However, my website helps me keep track of my writings, and my Goodreads reviews are somewhat entertaining on occasion, so here goes​ anyway​​--

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The Argosy Book of Adventure Stories, ed. Rogers Terrill: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4169900736​


At the Earth's Core (Pellucidar series #1), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4496798510

Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #2), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4514371620

Tanar of Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #3), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4545529411

Tarzan at the Earth's Core (Pellucidar series #4), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4575368858

Back to the Stone Age (Pellucidar series #5), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4617612793

Land of Terror (Pellucidar series #6), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4658207410

Savage Pellucidar (Pellucidar series #7), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4746756993

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The Axmann Conspiracy: The Nazi Plan for a Fourth Reich and How the U.S. Army Defeated It, Scott Andrew Selby: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2081645276

Beau Geste, P.C. Wren: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2062359734

Becoming Ray Bradbury, Jonathan R. Eller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142232577

Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khruschev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth, Frederick Kempe: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2053455709

The Big Clock, Kenneth Fearing: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3463008583

Blitzed: Drug Use in Nazi Germany, Norman Ohler: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3594421634​

The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1281337606

California Crazy: American Pop Architecture, Jim Heimann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4394920670


Carry On, Jeeves! (Jeeves series), P.G. Wodehouse: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4836376169


The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy series #1), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4764191008

I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Sean Duffy series #2), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4793293297

In the Morning I'll Be Gone (Sean Duffy series #3), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4802693877

Gun Street Girl (Sean Duffy series #4), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4820671865

Rain Dogs (Sean Duffy series #5), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4847884063

Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly (Sean Duffy series #6), Adrian McKinty: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4861645790

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Eric Schlosser: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2265684448

Confessions of a Crap Artist, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985909012

The Crossroads of Time, Andre Norton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3481008236

Damey & Grandpa Tutor, Larry Webb: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/980617335
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1072845438

The Dirty Dozen, E.M. Nathanson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4782264020

The Dog Stars, Peter Heller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3678748346

Drawings from the Gulag, Danzig Baldaev: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4336026507

The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3508149187

The Eternal Champion, Michael Moorcock: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4110643242

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth, Avi Loeb:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3837751967

Falling, T.J. Newman: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4104875178

The Familiar Dark, Amy Engel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3516753722

Fate Is the Hunter, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4123492955

Fatherland, Robert Harris: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1502761931

Fer-de-Lance (Nero Wolfe series #1), Rex Stout: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4822566402

Firefox, Craig Thomas: ​www.goodreads.com/review/show/3580047821

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3630749342

Glory for Me, MacKinlay Kantor: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589568071

Grammar without Tears, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1142035368

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4017483836

Hide and Seek: The Untold Story of Cold War Naval Espionage, Peter Huchthausen and Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3567879637​

The High and the Mighty, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4886305128

Hold On!, Peter Darley: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/995034110

The Human Stain, Philip Roth: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1555242731

The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3574369336​

I Am Legend, Richard Matheson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499619641

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Jack Finney: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1034719193

Khrushchev's Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary, Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3542154543

Laptop from Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide, Miranda Devine: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4560746244

Leave the World Behind, Rumaan Alam: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3864831853

The Legion of Space, Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/988149834

The Lost Weekend, Charles Jackson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1147722336

The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1042538401

Make Room! Make Room!, Harry Harrison: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3886675205

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Sloan Wilson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1009625789

A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1028584906

A Matter of Morals, Joseph Gies: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1282859634

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Eric Hodgins: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3877875263​

Natives of Space, Hal Clement: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1036418510

Operation Storm: Japan's Top Secret Submarines and Its Plans to Change the Course of World War II, John J. Geoghegan: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2048502335

Out of Space and Time, Clark Ashton Smith: ​www.goodreads.com/review/show/4269685373

The Penultimate Truth, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3646567758​

Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle: ​www.goodreads.com/review/show/3992003255

Planets Three, Frederik Pohl: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/986232680

Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3489521194

The Pocket Book of Dog Stories, Harold Berman, ed.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3511238215

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A Princess of Mars (Barsoom series #1), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4027080520

The Gods of Mars (Barsoom series #2): Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4032978321

The Warlord of Mars (Barsoom series #3), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4042486090

Thuvia, Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom series #4 and #5), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4065456260​

The Master Mind of Mars (Barsoom series #6), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4068466285

A Fighting Man of Mars (Barsoom series #7), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4077954927

The Smell of War: Lessons from the Battlefield, Roland Bartetzko: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4272202191

Swords of Mars (Barsoom series #8), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4081235256

Synthetic Men of Mars (Barsoom series #9), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4092929356

Llana of Gathol (Barsoom series #10), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4096842379

John Carter of Mars (Barsoom series #11), Edgar Rice Burroughs: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4101243970

John Carter of Mars: Gods of the Forgotten (new Barsoom series), Geary Gravel:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4471348983


Pstalemate, Lester del Rey: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1031264524

Ray Bradbury Unbound, Jonathan R. Eller: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1051331889

Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2226874943

Restless Legs, Tabitha Ormiston-Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1260133793
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Roadside Americana, Eric Peterson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4398260874


Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, William J. Patterson, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1186185286

Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better, William J. Patterson, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1222027415


Rocket to the Morgue, Anthony Boucher: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1022796955

Route 66, Michael Karl Witzel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4409270533

A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3603326596

Secret Commandos: Behind Enemy Line with the Elite Warriors of SOG, John L. Plaster:  https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3717281759​

Serpico, Peter Maas: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3881067318

The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3499453751

Soldier of Fortune, Ernest K. Gann: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4875159119


Spy Hook (Bernard Samson #4), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4898366398

Spy Line (Bernard Samson #5), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4912264034


A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1097665436


Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Gene Roddenberry: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4275707784

Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Vonda N. McIntyre: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4306182456


Tiki Pop: America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise, Sven Kirsten: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4381888230

Two Years before the Mast, Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3475197769

Ubik, Philip K. Dick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3612618180

The Ugly American, William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1016746356


Undersea Quest (Undersea Trilogy #1), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/981489525

Undersea Fleet (Undersea Trilogy #2), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/985896201

Undersea City (Undersea Trilogy #3), Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3487372853


Vietnam: A History, Stanley Karnow: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3837594605

The Vintage Rolex Datejust: Buyer's and Collector's Guide, 1945-1990, Thomas van Straaten: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4748202897


When Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2225388142

After Worlds Collide, Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2231438849


Who?, Algis Budris: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/986810102

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Observations about Race, revised ed., Beverly Daniel Tatum: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349534795

Wind, Sand and Stars, Antoine de Saint Exupery: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4148559786

Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4359064501

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