Start with a pint or so of John D. MacDonald‘s Travis McGee, mix in a quarter-cup of Clive Cussler‘s Dirk Pitt and you just might end up with a refreshing drink of Doc Ford. Well, you or I might not, but thankfully Randy Wayne White did. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t some cheap MacDonald […]
Category: Books
The First Rule
For James, Robert and the rest of you other fine readers too (via Jason): First rule of Book Club: you do not talk about Book Club. [Third Day Blog]
Accidents and Emergence
I had barely started Steven Johnson‘s 2001 book Emergence last night – indeed I was still in the first two dozen or so pages – when the TV show my wife was watching caught my ear. The Screen Actors Guild awards show was showing clips from Crash and giving a short description of it’s premise. […]
Steven Johnson Speaks on Everything Bad…
A while back I wrote about Steven B. Johnson‘s book Everything Bad Is Good For You. Last night an interview with him was shown on the Charlie Rose show, and now it’s available for viewing here (about 45 minutes in). After you watch the interview, of course I recommend you go read the book. It’s […]
The Dark Tower and Beyond
A few weeks back I read a Stephen King’s The Gunslinger, based on the recommendation of a friend and commented that it was a “fascinating story.” Big understatement. When Bryant recommended The Dark Tower series, I joked that he’d be to blame if I couldn’t sleep for a week. I meant that I’d be too […]
Recommendations That Ended Well
We may have our differences of opinion but Dave‘s still the Blogfather, having gotten many of us – including me – interested in weblogging with his writing, his offer of EditThisPage, the development of Radio and his enthusiasm in general. His writing also inspired me to give the Grateful Dead a listen. I’d heard of […]
Johnson on Video Games
“What is the current reigning technological paradigm — combined with both market and public-sector forces — doing to our minds?” Steven Johnson, who I heard interviewed on the radio this afternoon, tackles that in a book that I’m very much looking forward to reading: Everything Bad Is Good for You. I wrote a paper back […]
I spent Saturday vacationing on Key West, being la…
I spent Saturday vacationing on Key West, being lazy in the hot sun. Well, not really, but I did hang out on the deck (where it was hot enough) and read The Mango Opera. Darn good book, made even better by the fact that I’d just been there a couple of months ago. Corcoran’s description […]