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2 reviews
E M Cioran

Arcade Publishing, 1998

Cioran is my spiritual doppelganger
Paul Williams once said that, after hearing a Bob Dylan tune called JUST LIKE A WOMAN, he wanted to mail it to everyone. I feel the same way about Cioran's stuff. And coincidentally enough, Emil touches on this very topic in DRAWN AND QUARTERED: "To send someone a book is to commit a burglary---a case of breaking and entering. It is to trample down his solitude, what he holds most sacred, for it ...

The Quartered Sea

14 reviews
Tanya Huff

DAW Books, 1999

enthralling and thrilling
This is the first book I have ever read by Ms Huff and I willingly admit I was truly charmed. Her writing is good enough (despite some minor plot inconsistencies and typos: what are the editors at daw books paid for, I wonder?) and the story is interesting if not particularly original. In this book Ms Huff shows off with two main skills: the first is the ability of building up a ...

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II

12 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Skyhorse Publishing, 2007

Quartered safe out here
A superb book which is not just a personal account of the 2nd World War in Burma, but also an attack on nannyism in Britain today. At times it reads along the 'it wasn't like that in my day' lines, but I found I totally agreed with all sections of this sort. It is, as you'd expect, full of hunour as well. I fully recommend it Roger Hunt

The Quarters Novels, Volume II: No Quarter, The Quartered Sea

2 reviews
Tanya Huff

DAW, 2007

Quartered Sea
I disagree with the review that stated that the hero in The Quartered Sea was weak and whiny. Huff shows her skill in creating characters with flaws that mature and come into their own at the end. Our Hero evolves through dramatic events that will leave you wanting to read more.

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

26 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Harpercollins, 1994

Extraordinary Memoir of "The Forgotten Army"
George MacDonald Fraser, best known for his Flashman novels, and, in my opinion, one of our best writers, gives us here his nearly fifty-year-old memories of his service in Burma in 1945. There is so much to like about this book that it's difficult to know where to begin. There is Fraser's absolute honesty about his fears, his mistakes, his attitude toward the Japanese, and the virtues and ...

Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons

1 review
Stephen Hess, Sandy Northrop

River City Publishing, 2008

Both entertaining and educational.
This well-conceived book truly reminds us that political cartooning has held a giant role in our nation's history -- and perhaps more than it has ever been given credit for. The authors make a stong case of cartooning's political vitality, past and present. The book is a very engaging and fun read not only because of its generous use of cartooning, but also because the authors take effort ...

CATHOLIC ANCESTOR Journal of the Catholic Family History Society Hung, Drawn and Quartered The Reality of ...

Catholic Family History Society, 2002

Softcover 6" X 8 1/4" 88pp.

Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma

14 reviews
George MacDonald Fraser

Akadine Press, 2001

GMF is one of a kind...bless him!
It's been years since I first read "Quartered Safe Out Here" by the creator of Harry Paget Flashman, VC. (And I won't rehash everything the previous reviewers have written.) Having read and reread all of the Flashman novels before picking it up, and being a card carrying Flashmaniac myself, I was very anxious to know more about GMF. This book certainly didn't disappoint me. After I had finished ...

Drawn and Quartered
Charles Addams

Pocket Cardinal, 1964

Here, for the first time in paperback, is Charles Addams' Cartoon Collection #1, 115 memorable, tremorable masterpieces.

Robert Creeley & Archie Rand: Drawn & Quartered
Robert Creeley, Archie Rand

Granary Books, 2001

Drawn & Quartered documents a collaboration between preeminent American avant-garde poet Robert Creeley and award-winning artist Archie Rand. In Creeley's words: ''The procedure was for Archie to slide me an image on the litho paper. I'd try a take or two to get the feel, writing on a usual sheet of typing paper, then resolve on a particular quatrain, put it with the litho sheet related--and on to the next. So we worked through the afternoon ...

Quartered in Hell: The Story of the American North Russia Expeditionary Force 1918-1919

3 reviews

G O S, 1982

Heroes are made not born.
In this book, the face of war and political expediency are exposed like the Emperor in his "new" clothes. The photographs, diaries, reminiscences and letters of the soldiers who served in that Arctic backwater tell an authentic tale of unrelieved military mismanagement. Indelible images of suffering and death emerge that give credence to war as "Idiot's Delight." There's the young Russian girl ...

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