A Book Review Blog
I read 80 books this year, with those split up into reading challenge books, audiobooks, extended series and stuff that just looked fun. I'm continuing to make my way through all of Stephen King's books, as well as the Richard Sharpe, Pip & Flinx, and Repairman Jack series. I'm also still reading biographies on every... Continue Reading →
A few years back, my wife and I used to get on Kickstarter.com every week and try to look at every project on the website. We’d open up our favorites into separate windows, then watch the videos to weed out the ones that weren’t as interesting as their titles. From there we’d look at the... Continue Reading →
Making his debut at age 21 with the dark and twisted “Less Than Zero,” Bret Easton Ellis is one of the few authors to achieve both celebrity level fame and vitriol in equal levels throughout his career. For many, his stories are written simply to shock and titillate from a misogynistic viewpoint. For others he... Continue Reading →
John Updike’s Rabbit series is unusual in the literary world for several reasons. For starters, it’s a series of books that doesn’t involve any supernatural, magical or militaristic elements. It’s also very adult material, with probably as much time spent on sexual acts as anything I’ve read (including the awful “50 Shades of Grey”) but... Continue Reading →
