Category Archives: Books

[amazonify]0441012035[/amazonify]It’s a sign of lazy reading when you have to refer to a book’s Wikipedia entry to make sure what you thought was happening actually occurred in the book. Fortunately, I was mostly right. Neuromancer is one of those books that’s oft referred to in popular culture, especially considering that Gibson coined the phrase cyberspace. It’s been called the first cyberpunk novel. I couldn’t believe it was written in 1984, as forward thinking, both in substance and narrative, as the story is. I kept wondering how difficult it would be to turn this into a film. Seems 2009 will be the year. Read the book before you see the movie.

[amazonify]0142004030[/amazonify]The sequel to The Eyre Affair in the inventive series about Thursday Next, Literary Detective. She enters books. She time travels. She saves the world. All in a day’s work. Fforde’s as an imaginative author as I’ve ever come across. Fforde knows his classics and constantly drops allusions.

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[amazonify]1565125517[/amazonify]Not quite as strange as I was hoping, although some touching scenes abound. A hard-luck story where the protagonist constantly tries to redeem himself.

[amazonify]074328075X[/amazonify]A fearful read if all the details are true. I seldom read political non-fiction, but this book was very interesting, attempting to show that Bush, and moreover Cheney, sought to enter Iraq as soon as they assumed the Presidency.

[amazonify]0446697974[/amazonify]I saw Thank You for Smoking, a film based on the book of the same name penned by Buckley. I enjoyed the satire in the movie and assumed correctly that Boomsday would be similar. It is, only instead of smoking, the culprit is aging. Think Swift’s A Modest Proposal with geriatrics in the main role. Or roll, as the case may be.