The book of poems was written by Charles Bukowski from 1974-1977. His poems talk about his endless consumption of alcohol, mostly beer. In some of his poems he does say he has to give up his voluptuary ways and find a nice woman and stop drinking. His poems are visceral and very blunt and honest. He’s also an artist, a painter. He doesn’t live in affluence. In fact through his poems you imagine he lives close to squalor. He talks about the cockroaches that permeate his place. It’s about the harsh realities of living in near squalor and poverty in a rough part of Los Angeles ...

Dark Prophecy (Vampire The Masquerade) - Blood Curse Book 3 of 3

When the hunter becomes the hunted...The crazed Camarilla prince of Atlanta will stop at nothing to kill Owain Evans. Carlos, bishop of the Sabbat, also thirsts for vengeance. The Giovanniitight come to Owain's aid - unless they can benefit from betraying him. Who can he trust in the diabolic world of the Kindred, those vampires who stalk the night unseen by mortal eyes? The answer is simple - no one. Not even himself.

Winnowing - Blood Curse Book 2 of 3

Owain returns to his old stomping ground in Spain, and to his long time friend, a Toreador Antitribu named El Greco. Things have changed however over the years and Owain becomes enmeshed in a political chess match with El Greco's rival. The Gangrel Nickolas continues his hunt for Owain as well and tracks him to Spain. Some very interesting plot twists keep you on your toes and make the whole story worth reading. The various plot ties going on throughout the first and second novels begin to come together.

Everything takes place in Atlanta, where we get to see our old friends Benison, Hanna, Benjamin, Thelonius, and others before the Clan novel series. Owain, though not directly involved in the local politics, does carry some weight around with his experience. When the Blood Curse hits, Owain is torn between his duties to the local Prince, and his own personal feelings. In the end, the world begins to crumble around Owain as he discovers old emotions, long buried in his cold dead heart. When madness seizes the world's vampires, relentless hunger gnaws at them. But no matter how many victims they drain, ...

Arrested in 1849 for belonging to a secret group of radical utopians, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years in a Siberian labor camp - a terrible mental, spiritual, and physical ordeal that inspired him to write the novel The House of the Dead. Told from the point of view of a fictitious narrator - a convict serving a ten-year sentence for murdering his wife novel describes in vivid detail the horrors that Dostoevsky himself witnessed while in prison. The House of the Dead also describes the spiritual death and gradual resurrection from despair experienced by the novel’s central character ...