reviews

A Creep-Show Ride of American Haunted House Lore Author: Jay Anson Sussing my way through a moldy collection of random horror paperbacks, I encountered The Amityville Horror; this one was the lurid old-school horror cover of a red tinged house with a flagrant demon’s tail swooping across the black cover and around the text. I was on the hunt for another of my self-indulgent horror reads and had heard this title frequently mentioned without ever truly gaining a scope for what the book was about. It opens as a self-proclaimed true story, although the hype of being better than The Exorcist, because [...]

Western water woes... Author:  David Owen Government water policy.  Each individual word is boring and stringing them together doesn’t help much.  But when one considers the modern history of the Colorado River, things become much more intriguing.  Rustle up an experienced and capable writer like David Owen you’ve got a really good book on your hands.   Without a doubt, Where the Water Goes is a lot more interesting than it has any right to be. The Colorado gets its start on the western side of Rocky Mountain National Park.   Draining much of seven southwestern states, the Colorado [...]

Cricket, Talking Mattresses, and the End of the World (Again) “We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.” ― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything Back for a third splash, or should I say thorough soaking, in the fountain of never-ending absurdity, the crew of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tackle a scientifically advanced spaceship (running on the mathematics specific to restaurant bills) to stop a homicidal far-away planet and along the way they meet living mattresses, a Greek god, a never-ending space party, a vengeful (and particularly unlucky) entity named Agrajag, and the ultimate purveyor of world [...]