The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazing story of a small band of political prisoners who escape from a Russian gulag in Siberia and make their way to India. A tribute to the resilience of the human spirit. View all my [...]

Morgue Drawer Four by Jutta Profijt My rating: 3 of 5 stars Amusing procedural in which the narrator is a dead guy. Predictable in places, but a great ending. View all my reviews

The Great Movies III by Roger Ebert My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ebert continues to entertain with his insights on what makes a movie great. View all my reviews

The New Centurions by Joseph Wambaugh My rating: 4 of 5 stars Waumbaugh’s episodic, genre-defining, dark-humored novel still packs a punch. View all my reviews

11/22/63 by Stephen King My rating: 3 of 5 stars Not his best, but certainly not his worst. Quite readable and only a little bit of cheating on the ending, but with one of his best ending scenes ever. And, as always, it should have been cut down by at least 1/3… View all my [...]

33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Volume One by David Barker My rating: 3 of 5 stars This collection of chapters from different books in the 33 1/3 series is a mixed bag of work. There are pieces of unreadable pretentious tripe, fawning fanboy upchuckium, and insightful, well-thought out analyses. View all my reviews

Social BOOM!: How to Master Business Social Media to Brand Yourself, Sell Yourself, Sell Your Product, Dominate Your Industry Market, Save Your Butt, … and Grind Your Competition into the Dirt by Jeffrey Gitomer My rating: 3 of 5 stars Good News: Some excellent points about and ideas for using Social Media: Bad News: He [...]

This is Herman Cain!: My Journey to the White House by Herman Cain My rating: 4 of 5 stars I don’t care for the autobiography as a form because they are always so self-serving. But this book serves Cain well, answering lots of questions about the candidate. I’m voting for him. View all my reviews

Tonight We Die As Men: The untold story of Third Battalion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-Day by Ian Gardner My rating: 2 of 5 stars Serviceable history of a wing of the 101st Airborne that would have been better as an oral history. View all my reviews