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Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] David Mitchell‘s books seem to alternate between linked short stories and straight-forward novels. His first and third were Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas, and his second and fourth were Number9Dream (which I haven’t yet read, but have heard…
[Purchase Book] The original novel Z is a bit hard to find anymore; it’s ostensibly in print, but I’ve never seen it in a bookstore; I found one of the early paperback edtions in a used bookstore after a few months of…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Graham Greene‘s classic novel The Quiet American, though written in 1955, is still a biting indictment of American foreign policy. His novel takes place in Vietnam (prior to the US/Vietnam war); the narrator, Thomas Fowler, is an…
[Purchase Book] Joe R. Lansdale probably doesn’t need too awfully much of an introduction. He’s won a bunch of awards (including the Bram Stoker Award six times) AND he provided the source novella for the cult classic Bubba Ho-Tep (speaking of which,…
Cover of The Mirror of Love [Purchase Book] Alan Moore is a genius. This isn’t something that should be considered news to anyone. It’s practically a given, a truism. He may have had a misfire or two (unfortunately, A Disease of Language…
[Purchase Book] Full Disclosure Time: This book was written by Ivan Henley, whose name you may recognize as a Kittysneezes contributor. (In fact, I’d hope you WOULD recognize it, as he wrote the piece before last.) However, I had nothing to do…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] I’d never read anything by Jonathan Lethem before — in fact, I didn’t even realize he was considered a sci-fi author until recently. Like a lot of people, the first I became aware of him was with…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] Oliver Sacks‘ newest book is, like many of his best, more a collection of vignettes and essays than a single cohesive narrative. Given the breadth of the subject matter — how the brain reacts to music in…
Cover of Ghostwritten [Purchase Book] After reading David Mitchell‘s Cloud Atlas, I knew that I had to read his other books. So, I went back to the beginning. (Honestly, I don’t think I planned it that way, it was just the next…
[Purchase Book] I suppose that if you don’t like the Pixies, you won’t really care about this book. And that’s fine. If you don’t think they were one of the greatest bands of the 1980s, you’ll probably get really sick of people…