Amazon.com ReviewIt is always night in the city of Ember. But there is no moon, no stars. The only light during the regular twelve hours of "day" comes from floodlamps that cast a ...
Amazon.com ReviewThe City & The City. Mieville is well known as a modern fantasist (and urbanist), but from book to book he's tried on different genres, and here he's ful...
Amazon.com ReviewWith The Charnel Prince, author Greg Keyes keeps up the pace set by __ with a second taut entry in his series--the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. The Briar King has ....
Amazon.com ReviewBernie Rhodenbarr, burglar with a heart of gold, returns for this 10th installment in a reliable Burglar on the Prowl, Bernie is recruited by an old friend to bur....
Amazon.com ReviewLawrence Block is such a gifted writer that even a native New Yorker will be fooled into thinking that the Paddington Hotel, described in the opening pages of Burg...
Amazon.com ReviewIf the only side of Lawrence Block you know is the dark and gloomy Matt Scudder books, such as the noir classic __, then you might be surprised to hear that he's ....
SUMMARY: FIRSTLY: don’t touch the hands of your cuckoo-clock heart. SECONDLY: master your anger. THIRDLY: never, ever fall in love. For if you do, the hour hand will poke through y...
Amazon.com ReviewModern Western culture and technology is inextricably tied to the belief in the existence of a self as a separate ego, separated from and in conflict with the rest...
Amazon.com ReviewAfter Tom Wolfe defined the '60s in The Bonfire of the Vanities arrived, the literati called Wolfe an "aging enfant terrible."He wasn't aging; he was growi...