Category Archives: Suspense/thriller

Four Novels: Four Levels of Hell

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Ron Pavellas

To these four novels I have assigned levels of hell, in descending order, for their depictions of life in various (English speaking) places during the last two centuries. Level 1 I serendipitously happened across Old School by Tobias Wolff in … Continue reading →

Posted in Mystery, Suspense/thriller | Tagged Andrew Vachss, Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, Mask Market, Old School, The Rise of Silas Lapham, This Boy’s Life, Tobias Wolff, William Dean Howells | Leave a comment

The End of the World

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Ron Pavellas

I recently read The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. It’s about the end of civilization, the action of the novel seeming to take place in what is left of the Western United States after, apparently, an atomic holocaust. It is a very … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventure, Journals, Mystery, Science fiction/fantasy, Suspense/thriller | Tagged Cormac McCarthy, Dark Star Safari, David Brin, Earth Abides, George R. Stewart, Paul Theroux, The Road | Leave a comment

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