Posts in "Book"
Book roundup, part five
Includes Shadow Ops: Control Point, The Night Circus, The Hunger Games, Quiet, The Science of Yoga, and Kitchen Confidential. Lots of good stuff in this one.
Book roundup, part four
Includes Angelmaker, The Magicians, Magician King, Iron Council, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. One of these is the most important book of 2011.
Book roundup, part three
Includes The Drop, Ready Player One, Moon Called, Among Others, Excession, Inferno, The Paleo Solution and I am Ozzy.
Book roundup, part two
Includes Sandman Slim, Snuff, The Cold Commands, Reamde, Goodbye Darkness, Steve Jobs and The Psychopath Test.
Review: Griftopia
Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia is an important book, and it will make you angry enough to froth at the mouth.
Review: The Heroes
The Heroes is an intense, wild ride into a maelstrom of violence, brutality and flawed human beings. You should read it.
Review: Zero History
William Gibson is back in the unevenly distributed future with Zero History.
Review: The Big Short
Nic reviews Michael Lewis’s The Big Short. He likes it.
Review: The Steel Remains
The Steel Remains is a stunning reboot of dark fantasy.
Review: Justinian’s Flea
This book provides an interesting idea about the final nail in the coffin for the Roman Empire.
Review: Anathem
An enormously ambitious novel that mostly succeeds.
Review: Drenai Tales
A roundup of David Gemmell’s Drenai Tales novels.
Review: Requiem for an Assassin
Mostly for completist John Rain fans.
Review: 1776
Required reading for anybody interested in American history.
Review: Let the Right One In (novel and movie)
Both the movie and the novel Let the Right One In kick Nic in the teeth.
Review: Gang Leader for a Day
Very interesting insights into the shadow economy.