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Category: Reviews

  • Music Review: Interloper by Zane Vickery

    Music Review: Interloper by Zane Vickery

    Zane Vickery’s second full-length album, Interloper, is a personal work in which Vickery works to make sense and understand the purpose of his life. The album is a work, and by that I mean it is not a collection of songs, but a rock opera. Opera fits. So does, epic. Or…

  • Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet

    Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve read the ‘excursionary’ Space Trilogy numerous times since 1992. Only recently have I been clued into the influence of the medieval cosmology which Lewis loved so much. In the past I enjoyed the book on…

  • Dante’s Purgatorio

    The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante AlighieriMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The translation into rhyming verse is no doubt a daunting task. It does make the poetry more esoteric, and most likely more difficult to read and comprehend. Dorothy Sayer’s commentary, however, is gold. The book is worth reading…

  • Lewis: Out of the Silent Planet

    Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’ve read the ‘excursionary’ Space Trilogy numerous times since 1992. Only recently have I been clued into the influence of the medieval cosmology which Lewis loved so much. In the past I enjoyed the book on…

  • Dante’s Purgatorio

    The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante AlighieriMy rating: 4 of 5 stars The translation into rhyming verse is no doubt a daunting task. It does make the poetry more esoteric, and most likely more difficult to read and comprehend. Dorothy Sayer’s commentary, however, is gold. The book is worth reading…