Sifting through the dirt to get to the gold
"Singh remembered that he was on enforced medical leave. It might be ages before he had a juicy murder to deal with if Superintendent Chen had his way. This case - a missing person, a secretive family, a powerful scion, a city of contrasts and a wedding deadline - was certainly not for the fainthearted.... Continue Reading →
Have you ever wanted to escape the day-to-day routine of your mundane life? Do you wish you had some escape portal that would take you somewhere in the country and far, far, far away from the city when the going got tough? Well after reading Shangri-La Trailer Park I think my questions were answered and... Continue Reading →
Reading the acknowledgements I was surprised to see the author acknowledge Augusten Burroughs for his work and the inspiration that he had provided to his own literary adventures. My re"birth" into bibliophilia (yes it's a disease) was brought on by reading Burroughs' memoir Dry, and eventually his other book's Running With Scissors, and You Better... Continue Reading →
"She cried over the injustice she had thoughtlessly caused me, inconsolable over mistakes that threw happiness out with the trash. She mourned disposable opportunities and unrecyclable pleasures, a forgotten birthday. When she was haunted by thoughts of all the things she hadn't done, painting lessons, suing the conservatives for treason, it was like all the... Continue Reading →
" 'All sufficiently advanced technology is indiscernible from magic.' At the time, the child has not understood. So the man had explained: 'What that means, quite simply, is that things which are banal for me, can seem magical to you; it all depends on the technological level of the society in which you grow up.'... Continue Reading →
“‘Serial killers ruin families,’ shrugged Bob. ‘Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.’ We aren't all good people just trying to do good. Some of us are psychopaths. And psychopaths are to blame for this brutal, misshapen society. They’re the rocks thrown into the still pond.” Religious cult leaders… psychopaths, CEO’s... Continue Reading →
WARNING - This book contains sexually explicit material, moderate drug use with a modern spin, and violence towards any living being with two legs, arms are not required. If this book were an animal it would be a chicken headed to your local grocer: a pound of fluff, 69 square inches of exposed plucked skin,... Continue Reading →
"In general if you tell people something bad, they buy right into it, because it strikes them as normal. But when you make up good things, they get suspicious." Reading Etgar Keret's Suddenly, a Knock on the Door was a truly surreal experience. The majority of these stories seemed to be constructed effortlessly by the... Continue Reading →
"The next thing I remember is waking up. The thing I remember after that is thinking that for a guy who complains all the time about never getting any sleep, I sure wake up a lot." Self-preservation is a reality that Pietro Brnwa knows all too well. Growing up in northern New Jersey, Pietro was... Continue Reading →
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