J.R.: My Life as the Most Outspoken, Fearless, and Hard-Hitting Man in Hockey by Jeremy Roenick My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a very enjoyable book to read, even if you're not a huge fan of Jeremy Roenick. I gained a lot of respect for him as a player as a result of …
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Flight Of The Condor by Richard P. Henrick My rating: 3 of 5 stars In a word: cheesy. In another word: dated. In yet another word: entertaining. This book, published in 1987, is about a nuclear showdown between the US and USSR. America has a satellite up at all times overseeing Russia and their nuclear …
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First of all, I want to mention that this is my 500th blog post here on WordPress. That's a lot. Thanks to all of you who have been reading me all this time. I guess I'll continue on. Next.... The Veteran by Frederick Forsyth My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Veteran is a book …
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Weird things have been happening to my mother and to us over the past few months. Check it out. Mom had her taxes done. She owed over $10,000 in taxes! Never owed anything like that in her life. She lives on Social Security, for God's sake! She wasn't real happy about that. Then, last week, …
The Rakehells of Heaven by John Boyd My rating: 3 of 5 stars I struggled with how many stars to give this book. On one hand, I thoroughly enjoyed it and thought it was pretty original. On the other, it's not particularly well written, it's dated, and full of stereotypes. In it, two space cadets …
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I don't know how my wife would/will feel about me writing about this, but I hope she'll be understanding because I feel like I'll explode if I don't write something about this. Okay. Late last week, my wife got a letter in the mail from a government investigator telling her she was being investigated for …
The Terminal State by Jeff Somers My rating: 5 of 5 stars Avery Cates is back in a big way! This is the fourth book in the Avery Cates saga and I'm glad I gave it a chance. I hated the third book. I didn't even finish it. As I recall, while reviewing it last …
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Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer by Douglas K. Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars I think this is an excellent overview of how Xerox created the first personal computer in 1973 and then did absolutely nothing with it, due to unbelievable incompetence, thus losing out on the …
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