Fault Line: A Novel by Barry Eisler – Having read and thoroughly enjoyed all of Eisler’s John Rain books, I was anxious to give his new non-Rain novel a go.  The book was entertaining, but didn’t hold me as well as the Rain stories.  While I liked the character of the older brother, an [...]

Rain: What a Paperboy Learned About Business by Jeffrey Fox – I had high hopes for this book, a parable about what a young paperboy learns about business and life through his paper delivery travails.  It doesn’t work IMO, at least not for a reasonably knowledgeable adult who say, can balance his own checkbook.  Might [...]

I usually alternate between reading fiction and non-fiction, but in the last couple of months, I’ve been mostly on the fiction side of the literary table.  My last three reads included two fictional and one non-fictional books, I’d recommend them all.

Daemon by Daniel Suarez – Terrific cyber crime drama with enough internet-related acronyms and buzzwords [...]

History is a story.  There’s a timeline; a plot (even if it’s derived later); heroes and villains; uncertain conclusions; some resolutions and loads of stuff to be learned or enjoyed along the way.  Just like in a good novel.  Well, sort of.  History writers have great fodder for books, but often don’t execute well enough [...]

Most of the books that I’ve read recently have been of the mindless, for-entertainment-only variety.  Completely enjoyable and filled with unreal torrid sex, death-defying drug usage, flagrant murder and spies that would put James Bond to shame.  While I thoroughly enjoyed these novels while I read them, not a single one of them is worthy of consuming space [...]

I haven’t done a book review in a while, but having just finished You Suck: A Love Story, I had to write a few sentences about it.  While I don’t think it’s nearly as good as A Dirty Job, or Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal, Moore’s irreverent writing is still a [...]

Listening to the President’s speech made me think about Woodward’s book’s on Bush and Iraq.  Wasn’t General Shinseki fired for saying we needed more troops in Iraq at the beginning of the war?

During December, the release of Bob Woodward’s third book on the Bush administration and the war in Iraq finally compelled me to read [...]

I’ve been reading loads of fiction lately, but I squeezed in a couple of non-fiction books just to keep myself slightly aware of the real world.  The first was iWoz by Steve Wozniak (duh).  I was really disappointed in this book.  The jacket has a quote from Guy Kawasaki that states that “iWoz is the [...]

I’ve never read a comic book in my life.  But, like every guy on the planet with Luke Skywalker-esque delusions of saving the world (universe?), I’m fascinated by the prospect that superheroes might exist.  OK, maybe my fascination is with the idea that I might secretly be one.  So, the idea of mapping real science to [...]