The World of Books

I like the Masters of Rome by Colleen McCullough a lot, and have read all the books in the series. Therefore I have been looking forward to Antony and Cleopatra for a while.
This is the follow-up to The October Horse. After the death of Julius Caesar in 41 BC, Mark Antony, Caesar’s ambitious and brash [...]

The Great Train Robbery, an old thriller by Michael Crichton (first published in 1975) takes us to the underground world of betrayal and crime in Victorian England.
We witness, first-hand, probably the most intriguing money hoist in history. We travel with Edward Pierce, a criminal mastermind, and discover how he puts together a team of specialists [...]

Jeffrey Archer is another of my favorite authors. He is a strange fellow. Made an ultra-rapid political career, had to withdraw. Have recently spent some time in prison. Has been made a baron -  Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare. And much more strange stuff. However, regardless of all that, he is a wonderful writer and a [...]

The author of The Darkest Evening of the Year, Dean Koontz, has written several #1 New York Times bestsellers. He is a great storyteller that entertains and enlightens readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. The Darkest Evening of the [...]

Last Night at the Lobster is an interesting and enjoyable book written in a quiet mood about life and love in the working world. A tale about ordinary life, with ordinary, real people in it.
The story is about Manny De Leon, manager of a Red Lobster restaurant in a dismal section of Connecticut. The franchise [...]

While Before You Sleep was not viewed as controversial in Norway, American reviewers have regarded it as a “detailed and sexually frank novel.” Such labels aside, Before You Sleep is a great and interesting story of a Norwegian family, Blom, with strong and also somewhat eccentric women, that spans several generations. The story moves [...]

I just recently found Giants in the Earth on the Internet, more or less by accident. It is a great book, wonderful even. Rolvaag (or Rølvåg or Rölvaag, depending) seems to be somewhat known among Norwegian-Americans, hardly known at all to Danish-Americans or Swedish-Americans, and known by only a very, very few in Norway and [...]

The Danish-Norwegian writer Ludvig Holberg, (born Bergen, Norway 1684, died Sorø, Denmark 1754) was a prolific and entertaining writer, famous mostly for his extremely amusing, divine comedies (Jeppe on the Hill and Erasmus Montanus are probably the best known). However, he also wrote a story that may be considered one of the first science fiction [...]

Moment of Freedom is the first book in the Bjorneboe trilogy known as History of Bestiality. The two other books are Powderhouse and The Silence.
This is a grand work. The anarchic Bjorneboe despised repression and repressive institutions, as well as authority. This trilogy is a broadly founded literary attack on the multiple foundations of repressive [...]

“We are at rest five miles behind the front”. This is how one of the world’s great literary treasures, All Quiet on the Western Front, begins. It is a story about a common soldier’s experience in WWI, written in a quiet style, yet conveying the horrific experiences of war in such a way that it has been [...]