After a disappointing shooting season (not improved by my being bored into coma by Lord Buttforth's incessant prattling of his losses at Chemin-de-fer), I have resumed my sacred mission to provide you, Kind Reader, with my variegated musings on the state of literature today. More improvements to the site are forthcoming, and I trust they will meet with your generous approval. I shall endeavor to maintain the very highest standards of literary criticism, always with your intellectual welfare uppermost in my mind.
I remain, as ever, your obedient servant,
The Vicomte
A word to the wise - the new softcover edition of Dave Cullen's stupendously well-researched and emotionally searing account of the 1999 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold high school massacre, Columbine, (reviewed at this site) is now available. 
Do you enjoy spy novels a la Len Deighton? What about eldritch Lovecraftian horror? James Bond thrillers, you say? Well now, you can have all three, plus plenty of Pythonesque satire, in one easy-to-read volume! But wait, there's more - real historical events, with strange, alternate explanations, and multidimensional mathematics, combined with advanced computational demonology, all at no additional cost!
Unless you are a serious devotee of science fiction you've probably never heard of Michael Flynn; I hadn't until a couple of years ago, and I take my science fiction very seriously. He tends to fly beneath the radar, eschewing melodramatic space opera, in favor of highly detailed, very plausible multi-threaded stories, spread out on a very large scale. Unlike many authors of the genre, he publishes only once every several years, and the level of skill, commitment and imagination that goes into each novel makes the wait worthwhile. 
