This is the Literary section of Rainlore's World of Music, covering all types of literature, although of course a primary interest would be any kind of musical literature.
In order to secure its future as an ongoing project, and indeed resume regular activity such as new reviews, Rainlore's World of Music urgently needs to raise substantial funds through some kind of sponsorship or similar. (Please also see The Future of Rainlore's World of Music on the About page, and the News entry for 2008/11/09 on the Home page.)
It has regrettably become impossible to keep Rainlore's World of Music going on a purely spare-time basis. The amount of work involved is simply too overwhelming. At the rate that for example CDs kept arriving for review and gigs were covered during 2004, there was enough work to keep two people busy on a full-time basis!
Of course, I wish to preserve the non-commercial and not for profit nature of Rainlore's World of Music, but without some kind of sponsorship the site simply cannot continue in any meaningful active way. Despite not having had any updates for about four years until its re-launch in October 2008, Rainlore's World of Music remains a popular site. The reviews and artists' profiles have always achieved excellent visibility in search results, and have also been referenced widely. There are also many new features I would like to add to Rainlore's World of Music, such as a Gig calendar to replace the old one
and a Features section that should have been added during 2004 already, plus more.
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News/Latest Literary Reviews
2010/07/21
The review of Dennis Burton's epic two-volume novel Lagan River, Black Mountain will come up very soon now. At some thirteen hundred pages this is an extremely beefy work to get through, especially as my time is very constrained presently. Exploring "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland, it is also a riveting read that I just hate to have to put down. Almost half way through now. It is hoped that a mainstream publisher will be found very soon for this insight into the whole Northern Irish situation. This could hardly be more timely in view of the tragic renewed four days of rioting that surrounded the events of "the 12th" (of July, the day of the traditional protestant Orange Order parades - on both sides of the border) this year.
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2010/07/04
Coming up soon here, a review of a veritable modern 'War And Peace', a substantial two-volume epic novel exploring "The Troubles" of Northern Ireland spanning five decades from 1941 to 1996 by Dennis Burton, to be published shortly. Review copies have arrived already and I can barely wait to get stuck into this grand epic. The author is an established best-selling novelist and biographer and is writing under a pseudonym for a variety of reasons.
Regrettably won't be fully up-and-running again for a while yet.
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2010/03/07
The 2008/09 version of this page has now been archived.
Finally, it has come to our attention that there appear to be a few minor problems with our web forms, specifically with radio buttons and check boxes, with some browsers. This is continuing to be checked out, but as everything seems to work just fine in Internet Explorer, it seems likely that the problem lies with the other browsers in that they may not have fully implemented this aspect of forms. In which case there appears little that can be done about it other than to suggest you temporarily switch to Internet Explorer in order to use our forms, if you are affected. Flash based forms might be another option longer term.
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2010/01/31
Given most reviews and descriptions of best-selling master storyteller W. A. Harbinson's fantastical 1991 novel Dream Maker previously encountered were factually inaccurate and fairly obviously seemed to indicate that their authors had not even bothered to actually read this novel as their plot summaries do not bear much resemblance to the actual plot, a retrospective review seems more than warranted. But apart from wishing to set the record straight, this is also a riveting good story, and Dream Maker is still found easily enough on the second-hand market.
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