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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 can be somewhat entertaining on occasion, so here goes​ anyway​​--


The Abominations of Yondo, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5220700149​

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


Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pellucidar series
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


Adrian McKinty, Sean Duffy series
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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Dear Committee Members, Julie Schumacher: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5305654136

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

Genius Loci and Other Stories, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5152344429

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 Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How they Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5043973689

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

I Killed Stalin, Sterling Noel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5351513830

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

The IPCRESS Files, Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5330848863

KG 200, J.D. Gilman and John Clive: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5366603023

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

Lost Worlds, Clark Ashton Smith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5120107454

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

Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate, M.E. Sarotte: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5083590697

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

Our Lady of Darkness, Fritz Leiber: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5100199693

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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Edgar Rice Burroughs, Barsoom series
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


William J. Patterson, Robert A. Heinlein biographies
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

Six Days of the Condor, James Grady: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5121741858

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

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


Len Deighton, Bernard Samson series
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

Spy Sinker (Bernard Samson #6), Len Deighton: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5186594951


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

Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, Geoffrey Roberts: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5270435206

Strangers on a Train, Patricia Highsmith: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5295812289​


Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek series
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


Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War, Jeffrey Brooks: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5399248611

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

Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations Against the USSR, Curtis Peebles: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5178132311

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


Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson, Undersea trilogy
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


We Who Survived, Sterling Noel: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5406733940​


Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer, When Worlds Collide​ series
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

Zephyr: Tracking a Dream Across America, Henry Kisor: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5426167177

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