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    Sackhead: The Definitive Retrospective  of Friday the 13th Part 2 R.G. Henning   Released: January 5th, 2023 My 13th book (I see a theme here...) for 2026 was R.G. Henning's "Sackhead: The Definitive Retrospective of Friday the 13th Part 2".   This is a book I've looked forward to reading for quite some time.  I picked it up a few years back, but due to moves, and storage, and lots of other factors, I haven't had the chance to fully explore it until now. Friday the 13th is often seen as a cheap 1980's slasher film series that capitalizes on blood, gore, and violence.  If you take a deeper look into it, you'll find that there's much more to the series than most people know.  Friday the 13th primarily focuses on killers seeking revenge for the death of loved ones.  In the first Friday the 13th, we learn that a young boy named Jason has drowned, and that his mother has gone on a killing spree to avenge him.  In Part 2, we learn that Jas...

  All Quiet On The Western Front Erich Maria Remarque   Released: January 29th, 1929 My 12th book for 2026 was Erich Maria Remarque's "All Quiet On The Western Front".   This is often cited as one of the greatest novels of all time.  It is a deeply intense look at the activities of war.  It follows a unit of young men fighting for Germany in World War 1 in the 1910’s.   We follow our main character Paul Bäumer as he describes the horrific events going on around him.  He loses feeling as time goes on.  His happiness is taken from him, and he suffers deep loss of comrades and brotherhood unions formed by their service. The men encounter a brothel with French women.  They trade loaves of army bread in exchange for a night of intimacy.  While they share excitement over this, Paul doesn't feel the connective passion that usually comes from a sexual experience.  To him, this is more of just a dead feeling to satisfy a bodily need.  H...