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 …
Month: May 2015
A Review of The Terminal State
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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A Review of Fumbling the Future
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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A Review of Hey Ho Let’s Go
Hey Ho Let's Go: The Story of the Ramones by Everett True My rating: 4 of 5 stars I read and wrote a review of a book called Ramones on November 26, 2013, so much of this is overlapping. With that in mind, I'm going to reprint some of that review here: "Let me begin …
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A Review of Warrior: Frank Sturgis
Warrior: Frank Sturgis---The CIA's #1 Assassin-Spy, Who Nearly Killed Castro but Was Ambushed by Watergate by Jim Hunt My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book is about a legend in the subject's own mind. And perhaps the co-authors'. And perhaps even a few others. But he's really not all that. This book is poorly …
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