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Book reviews
I was so pleased to see a genre film win Best Picture at the Oscars this year. Usually genre films are maligned as being just for profit, without any artistic merit, even though that’s not true. And that’s particularly true for the…
[Purchase Book] When I bought a copy of Evguénie Sokolov by Serge Gainsbourg, I thought it was, in fact, Serge Gainsbourg by Evguénie Sokolov. I had no idea that Gainsbourg had written a novella — I just figured the slim volume was…
Cover of Bear v. Shark I read a lot. I enjoy reading, and I tend to find myself in situations where reading is about the best way to spend time. Since I read a lot, it should follow that I must also…
[Purchase Book] Comedy is wonderful. More importantly, comedy is funny. It can be difficult to do right, too — there’s lots of room for books on humor analysis and how something can be funny, when it works, when it doesn’t, and whether…
[Purchase Book] I’m much more of a fan of DVD as a format than I was of VHS. VHS never really looked as clean, it’d degrade over time, and there’s the whole pan-and-scan thing with letterboxed tapes being much more rare. …
[Purchase Book] As “Weird Al” Yankovic said, “Everything you know is wrong”. Admittedly, he wasn’t talking about Columbine — that’d be a little bit of a downer. He got that from the Firesign Theatre, though they weren’t talking about that either; a…
Erotic re-imaginings of classic fairy tales have been done before – Anne Rice’s Beauty series is an extreme example, Moore and Gebbie’s Lost Girls a graphic one. Often they retain a hint of adolescence or address issues of adolescent sexuality, which follows…
[Purchase Book] It’s very odd when you find a book that’s about 800 pages, and find it’s too short. Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America is an in depth look at Nixon’s political career from…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] On one hand, I’m not even sure if I should even bother writing a review of this. Let’s see, one of the most beloved books by a beloved author everyone knows? Gee, I wonder if folks know…
[Purchase Book] I finished reading BAD: The Autobiography of James Carr not too long ago. It put me in a pensive mood. Starting with Sister of The Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha – as told to Dr. Ben Reitman, I’ve been…