The Digital Dead by Bruce Balfour My rating: 3 of 5 stars Not a bad book, but not a great book either. Could have been better. First, though, it's about a new company called Elysian Fields that offers eternal life by implanting chips in people's heads and then when you die, an electronic copy of …
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Picasso, My Grandfather by Marina Picasso My rating: 1 of 5 stars I got through 30 pages and then just couldn't finish this book. It's dreadful. Marina Picasso's hatred of and contempt for her grandfather knows no bounds. It's really appalling. And what did Picasso do to gain her enmity? He was insulting. Yeah, that …
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Please excuse my French, but this is a giant mind fuck of a book! All I could say when I finished it was, wow. Dick tackles a lot in this book. You've got twenty-first century global warming as it's …
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The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam by Richard H. Shultz Jr. My rating: 3 of 5 stars The author of this book used declassified material to give readers an inside view of "The Secret War Against Hanoi." Unfortunately, it's almost all from the operational …
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life by Marshall Frady My rating: 4 of 5 stars I came to read this book because I admittedly don't know much about Martin Luther King, Jr, and I decided that now that I'm middle aged, it's high time I learn something about such an influential man. And so, this …
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