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Four Days With The Nook

12 August 2010

I splurged in commemoration of my birth and bought a nook from my local Barnes & Noble. I’ve had it for four days. As a gadget, it feels good in my hand, is responsive, has a nice minimalistic design and a good user interface and its e-ink screen is incredibly crisp and readable. Because his [...]

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Coming This Fall From SpikeTV

28 July 2010

Tune in next time on Deadliest Author for…NEAL STEPHENSON vs. DAN BROWN.

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The Passage

22 July 2010

I’ve been trying to write about The Passage for awhile, but when I try, I just end up saying “Oh, it’s pretty good,” or something.  It’s an epic book – it spans nearly a century, deals with an apocalyptic event that decimates the U.S. population, and combines eerie supernatural elements with a hard scientific rationale [...]

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31 Days of Terror: Patient Zero

9 March 2010

Jonathan Maberry’s Marvel Comics event Doomwar won me over so hard that I wanted to check out one of his novels.  I opted for Patient Zero, the first Joe Ledger book (the second, The Dragon Factory, comes out this month), a military thriller about a zombie outbreak. There is a part of me that enjoys [...]

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Elsewhere

25 February 2010

Ana and Thea, The Book Smugglers, are clearly being blackmailed by me.  Why? Because I’m guest posting on their blog again, this time reviewing a steamy romance novel that I didn’t actually hate. Oh, and The Utopian, the most emo webcomic written by a grown-ass man, has a plethora of real-world guest appearances in its [...]

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Book Store Ruminations – Salinger

5 February 2010

So J.D. Salinger passed away. I certainly am not pretentious enough to call Salinger an influence, but I believe that reading Salinger was influential on me as a writer. While I don’t think that anything he’s published is ‘bad’, my favorite of the stuff out there is 9 Stories, followed by the Glass stories, and [...]

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Juliet, Naked

1 December 2009

At least three of Nick Hornby’s books – High Fidelity, About A Boy, and Songbook are on my list of favorite books. I see a lot of myself in their nerdy neuroses and self-destruction and redemptive epiphanies that are inexorably (I use this word a lot, I think) tied to music. Hornby’s other novels are [...]

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Jefferson Reads: Jeff Somers’ Avery Cates Series

20 August 2009

I’m discovering that I’m rarely a fan of hard sci-fi, but do have a certain affection for the more cyberpunky bits of it (except, oddly, for the savagely dated Neuromancer; in fact, Gibson’s later stuff, which people don’t seem to like as much, is my favorite of his material). An even smaller subset of that, [...]

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The New Zombies, or Shorty!

19 August 2009

We all know that zombies are played out right now, yes? While they rehabilitate in limbo for a little while, let’s ponder what’s next for a second.  What’s the next big thing that will catapult any nugget of consumable entertainment into the withering lens of the pop culture zeitgeist for a few seconds? I think [...]

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The Nature of Things

4 August 2009

Sometimes things that don’t happen to people happen to me. You know, like when you watch a movie and some character is saying something scathing and derogatory about some other character, and he notices the slack-jawed wide-eyed faces of his audience and says, “She’s behind me, isn’t she?” That doesn’t happen in real life, right? [...]

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