Business, Culture, Writing, and Other Stuff
I finished A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr the other day. I can't get enough of Bernie Gunther and his hard boiled cynicism. In this fifth book of the series, he winds up in Argentina in 1950. It was a fascinating read as Kerr knows his history well and expertly mixes it into his narrative. [...]
I was rummaging around in Half Price Books the other day and there was a cart in there marked "Last Chance Collectibles Cheap". Ah, old books. I found a couple of treats. One was an old sci fi book I'll post about later. The second was Technical Writing: Third Edition by T. A. Rickard. It [...]
Richard K. Morgan's previous releases were all fantastic reads. Unfortunately, his latest, Thirteen in the U.S. and Black Man everywhere else, is not up to quality or the imagination of the Takeshi Kovacs novels or even the wonderfully disturbing Market Forces. Thirteen is the story of Carl Marsalis, a product of genetic engineering to produce [...]
Unrest by Parkway Drive