by Site Owner | Nov 4, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
by Neal Stephenson Wm. Morrow Books, $35.00, 1056 pages In the interest of full disclosure, the prospect of reading a Neal Stephenson book fills me with giddy anticipation. Generally speaking, a Stephenson novel will clock in somewhere north of 1,000 pages, and is...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Science Fiction
by Charles Yu Vintage, $14.95, 240 pages Charles Yu’s How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe is a haunting, beautiful ode to understanding one’s own father. Lucky for me I had very few preconceptions coming into this novel, I expected to read a funny,...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History
Edited by Katherine B. Darmer and Richard D. Fybel Prometheus Books, $21.00, 478 pages In 100 years, when historians are trying to decipher the incomparable mess that the American response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 created, they will need books like...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History
by Rosemarie Ostler Berkley NAL, $13.95, 228 pages Rosemarie Ostler’s Slinging Mud: Rude Nicknames, Scurrilous Slogans, and Insulting Slang from Two Centuries of American Politics is oddly comforting. As a citizen, I’ve been paying close attention to the most recent...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels, History
by Kazuki Ebine Penguin, $15.00, 210 pages Kazuki Ebine’s Gandhi: a Manga Biography is lovely. I am impressed with Ebine’s black and white art, his art is evocative and conveys a gravity to characterization in a manner similar Sir Richard Attenborough’s classic 1982...