To be able to say "Noggle," you first must be able to say "Nah."
As some of you know, I bought four of Roger L. Simon’s Moses Wine novels The Big Fix, Peking Duck, The Lost Coast, and this book) for $5 a throw at a remaindered book store in November, 2004. Oh, how the world has changed since then. Roger L. Simon is now an Internet mogul. Byron […]
As some concede defeat in the Fifty Book Challenge, you, gentle reader, have suffered through no fewer than 96 book reviews this year (and one forthcoming). Here’s my list from 2005*: Blood on the Arch by Robert J. Randisi Three Survived by Robert Silverberg Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe edited by Byron Preiss From a Buick […]
I inherited this book from my aunt along with a couple of the next books in the series. Amazon informs me this is the eleventh book in the series, so I’ve undoubtedly missed a lot of the references and asides within this book that allude to incidents which the long-time fans of the Lucas Davenport […]
Like Die Hard with a kid. If you can watch a child in a Bruce Willis movie crawling through HVAC ducts without saying, “Come out to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs,” well, you’re a more polite movie goer than I. It’s different from the book by Robert Crais, but just as […]
I inherited this book from my Aunt Dale; I don’t know if this was her personal copy or if she bought it to sell on eBay, but I do know that she liked Ed McBain, or at least owned one or more of his books; I remember in particular that I read her copy of […]
Well, I’ve explained that sometimes I cut corners to make my annual quota of sixty or seventy books and that I sometimes count pamphlets as books to make sure I stay on pace. So let me expand my repetwa to picture books. This bit of kitty porn contains a rambling introductory essay about cats through […]
Free Will links to a quiz called the Moral Matrix. Here’s how I did: Apparently, that means: Matches The following items best match your score: System: Conservatism Variation: Economic Conservatism Ideologies: Ultra Capitalism, Conservative NeoLiberalism US Parties: Republican Party Presidents: Ronald Reagan (93.75%) 2004 Election Candidates: George W. Bush (80.24%), John Kerry (71.70%), Ralph Nader […]
You know, every year I provide a handy little boast list of how much I’ve read in one place. Because of the hiatus, I didn’t get that list out. Until now. Read it and weep (for my lack of a life outside the pages): Friday by Robert Heinlein Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan […]
To honor Raymond Chandler on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, Byron Preiss commissioned a number of contemporary writers to try their hands at writing Philip Marlowe stories. So a number of them did, including Roger L. Simon, Roger Crais, Robert J. Randisi, John Lutz, and other known names as well as a bunch […]