library human secrets by linden lewis a good read a book with a beginning and end and chapters that followed each other to tell a story from page one this is very rare started with relics and crystal egg revelation of an earth millions of years ago and dog faced anubis like aliens creating humans for food to the existence of aliens returning for their artefact and the experience of a couple abducted to solve maths puzzles in base eight( the aliens have 3 fingers and a thumb on each hand) to test if they have evolved intelligence and are no longer food prey
read it and will read it again
five greatest warriors last of matthew reilly's jack west jr call sign special forces para mystic archaelogist novels at least he finds the vetices and constructs the machine but didn't he do that in seven greatest wonders - not a secret tomb or sacred lost site he has not found just in time before the murderous rivals and with one bound he was free- why are his allies always double /triple agents for the murderous rivals got to the end wished there was more - liked the bit about the villain using a tu 144 concordski as his private jet
gothic verse from the 18th to early 20th century scott, hood, shelley, coleridge and others the long unspeakable horror of very very long narrative verse- inspired me to write my own brief version
the war which killed achilles- a iliad commentray chapter by chapter inspired me to create a fantasy historical novel in one afternoon trojan fire in which cassandra is the pyschic military genius who defeated the achaeans in a day and is enthoned at the end with helen of troy dressed up as a gorgon on one side while hector fights with a giant snake in the achaeans one remaining ship and the achaeans are served up as a cannibal feast for kassandre the new queen
this is my second trojan war novel the first the key to the traveller (2000) a series of hero tales told by a band of warriors about their youthful campaigns
quite good inspiration from random visit to library this week
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