Reviews for Patriot Act

The average rating for Patriot Act based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-17 00:00:00 Mark Sculley Five stars for three stories: HIS PRIVATE HONOR, one of the best Soldiers Three stories. Private Ortheris has a situation with an officer and they settle it "man to man." MY LORD THE ELEPHANT another great Soldiers Three story. Mulvaney tames a runaway elephant. This is a good story because the nameless narrator (Kipling) has a bigger part and shows off his knowledge of Hindustani to the Soldiers Three. THE RECORD OF BADALIA HERODSFOOT. The other two I've been reading and rereading for forty years, since I was thirteen. This one I only discovered a few years ago. It's about the London poor, obsessive love, and murder. Kipling by the age of twenty five had forgotten more about men and women than most modern authors will ever know. There's an obvious debt to Othello, but still this story is stunningly real and raw.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-13 00:00:00 Natalie Lamere First published in 1893, Many Inventions is a collection of 14 short stories and 2 poems, previously published in magazines in the preceding few years. The book is not one of the most often reprinted, and yet most of the stories have been reprinted in other collections quite often since. The stories themselves are a bit of a scattergun selection, and include some of the soldiers series as well as one featuring Mowgli. Very enjoyable.