Tag Archive for 'Books'

Atlas Shrugged - book review

Ever since my commute changed from being an hour long to an hour and a half to two hours long each way, I have been burning through some books.  This is definitely a silver lining to an otherwise sucky situation.  However, at 1,074 bible thin pages of tiny type, I thought that Atlas Shrugged by [...]

Book review: Mr. Murder

The other night I finished reading Mr. Murder by Dean Koontz and I can definitely recommend it.  Even though at about page 100, I was unsure if I wanted to continue reading the book.  Not because it was bad.  No, it was because my heart was racing so much and my blood pressure was so [...]

Long weekend

Not that it was longer than the standard two days, but this did end up being a nice long weekend. I would tell you all about it, but my wife has already gone through all the trouble of writing it all out, so I will just ask that you go read the details at [...]

I Am Legend book review

Here’s something I didn’t know when I bought the book I Am Legend: it’s a short story collection.  I Am Legend is only the first 159 pages and then the rest of the book is all additional short stories by Richard Matheson.  Nowhere on the front or back of the book does it say that.  [...]

Review: Hero of the Imperium

I just recently finished reading the Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium. This is one of the Black Library’s Omnibus books that collects the first three novels in the Ciaphas Cain series as well as three short stories that help to fill in some of the blanks from this ‘autobiography’. The three novels [...]

Local info

For those of you in Malaysia and Singapore that may not know, local bookstore MPH is having a 15% off sale on all books for members (10% off for non-members). The sale starts today the 27th and ends on March 3rd. Just thought you might like to know if you live near one.

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