Published in March 25th, 2010
Stealing Castro’s Daughter: a memoir is a fascinating story of a man who decides to help a Cuban woman; Adianec, escape from Cuba and join him in the United States. He meets her during an illegal vacation to Cuba and immediately is intrigued by her, her life and family. His interest in her develops over […]
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Published in March 4th, 2010
Let the Great World Spin is a fabulous book that is well written and entertaining. The author manages to interweave the lives of several very interesting characters into one coherent slice of life story. He does this by showing how one event in New York city, the high wire walk of Philippe Petit across the […]
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Published in March 4th, 2010
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime provides an inside view of the 2008 presidential campaign and all its personalities. If more than half of what is in the book is true, it is extraordinarily damning of the people involved in 2008. We should have all pulled […]
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Published in December 11th, 2009
“Then We Came To The End” by Joshua Ferris is a mildly amusing story of the employees at an ad agency in Chicago that is in economic decline. The book captures the hopes and fears that so many office workers deal with daily across the country. As you might expect, there is gossip, politics, fear […]
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Published in October 29th, 2009
“The Bad Girl” by Mario Vargas Llosa is an English translation of a great story by the renowned Peruvian writer. The story starts in a wealthy neighborhood in Peru called Miraflores (look at flowers). The protagonist of the story, Ricardo Somocurcio falls in love with a young Chilean girl who moves into the neighborhood and […]
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Published in September 25th, 2009
“Relentless” by Dean Koontz is a good thriller. It involves a writer, called Cubby, who is given a bad review of his book by a psychopath called, Shearman Waxx. Cubby is curious as to who the reviewer is and arranges to see him at the critic’s favorite eating spot. After surreptitiously observing him for a […]
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Published in September 14th, 2009
“The Good Guy” by Dean Koontz is one of the best thrillers that I have ever read. I own so many of Mr. Koontz books that I was suffering from Koontz overload and thought I’d stay clear of him for a while. However, on a recent trip to the public library in Lincoln Park, NJ, […]
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Published in August 21st, 2009
“Winter Zoo” by John Beckman is a superbly written book about a group of young bohemians in Poland. These vividly described characters lack goals and ambition, but display a joy for life that we all desire and that, at the very least, entertains. The descriptions of cities in Poland, gambling halls, incestuous affairs and of […]
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Published in July 17th, 2009
“Snuff” by Chuck Palahniuk is a book about an aging porn actress named Caddie Wright who wants to break the world record for the number of men that she has sex with in one day. (Her goal is 600.) The story line is moved forward by a few of the men who are waiting in […]
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Published in July 17th, 2009
“American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis is the goriest and most frightening fiction that I have ever read. It is a book about what could happen if the 1980’s culture of yuppies and preppies were taken to an extreme. The main character, Patrick Bateman is a twenty-six year old Wall Street elite who likes to […]
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