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eBook – The Empire Striketh Back

eBook –  The Empire Striketh Back Full title :  William Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back By : Ian Doescher  Iillustrations :  Nicolas Delort Score : 9/10 Year : 2014 Publisher : Quirk Books  eISBN :  978-1-59474-716-8 Based on  978-1-59474-715-1 (hard cover) Pages : 176 *  Language : English From Goodreads : Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back  (and not reviewed as yet,  William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return.) Return to the star-crossed galaxy far, far away as the brooding young hero, a power-mad emperor, and their jesting droids match wits, struggle for power, and soliloquize in elegant and impeccable iambic pentameter. Illustrated with beautiful black-and-white Elizabethan-style artwork, these two plays offer essential reading for all ages. Something Wookiee this way comes!  *** As he explains at the end, Ian Doescher
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(e)Book – The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings


 (e)Book –  The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings

Full title: The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings : J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

Author:  Philip Zaleski, Carol Zaleski

Score: /10
Year: 2015 (original & this edition) 
Publisher:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 9780374713799/ 978-0-374-71379-9 (this e-book edition) 


Pages : 726*

I love reading Tolkien's Middle-Earth stories, from the Hobbit to Lord of the Rings and the various stories that his son published after his death (= History of Middle-Earth series), so when the Zaleski's book about him and his fellow Inklings was suggested, I naturally looked forward to reading it. 


After 3+ years of wait, I finally started reading this much awaited TBR book and I have to say that I'm a bit disappointed.. Not that the biographical information isn't good, but that the authors announcement of having written it both for religiously-oriented and non-religious readers, they actually take a biased pro-religious and anti-atheist position, basically in each every one of the 6 chapters (pages 6-156) that I read before giving up on this book. 

This aside, the Prologue,  19 chapters and Epilogue are haphazardly organized, passing from one person to another with no real order, from Tolkien, to Lewis, back to Tolkien, to Barfield, and I don't know to whom else afterwards.

My review after this mere portion cannot be full, but it is my feeling that the authors misrepresented their aim - not only bashing the age of reason and critical thinking, but also to present pseudo-scientific experiments as absolute truths - and not taking the step back in saying that these were the truths of the people studied here. 

Either way, I've stopping this book now to pass to another and shall therefore present only the basic table of content, should you wish to read this e-book:

Title page, copyright notice, dedication (pages 1-5)
Prologue, chapters 1-19, Epilogue (6-544),
Notes (545)
Bibliography (631)
Acknowledgements (654)
Index (657)
Illustrations (682)
A note about the authors (716) ; also by these authors (717)
Permission Acknowledgements  (721)
Copyright (725) 
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