Posts in "Review"
Review: The Moment It Clicks
A must-read for anybody interested in photography.
Movie roundup, part eight
Resident Evil: Extinction, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I am Legend, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, The Kingdom and Revolver.
Review: The Overachievers
Deeply disturbing book about the pressures of high-achieving high school students.
Review: Woken Furies
The third installment in Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs saga is great.
Review: The Dragon Never Sleeps
Glen Cook delivers epic, dense space opera.
Review: Glasshouse
Great sci-fi that’s really a meditation on memory.
Review: The Sociopath Next Door
An important book about the hidden menace of sociopaths.
Review: Homicide
Excellent non-fiction about homicide squads from one of the creators of The Wire.
Review: The Price of Privilege
Important book about how pressure from well-meaning parents hurt affluent children.
Review: The Scar
The Scar is a great, weird novel, but it makes Nic worry he might be a steampunk.
Review: Everything is Miscellaneous
Interesting book, but too much filler and techno-utopianism.
Review: Lord of the Silent Kingdom
The second installment of Glen Cook’s Instrumentalities of the Night delivers.
Review: Consider the Lobster
Excellent collection of writing from the great David Foster Wallace.
Review: The Overlook
Michael Connelly delivers a weak Harry Bosch novel.
Review: Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane manages to write a novel that is too noir for Nic.
Review: The Big Switch
Nice book on the commoditization of corporate IT services. Worth reading for anybody in the field.
Review: Heat
Entertaining book about a man’s obsessive quest to become a professional chef.