reviews

The Story Behind Doom’s Famous Hell Portal Revealed Author: Matthew Costello With the release of id Software’s epic gore fest, Doom 4, or as my friend states, “the Doom,” I was ready to reengage my lifetime obsession. Never much of a gamer, preferring bookworm status instead, The Ultimate Doom in 1995 was always an exception. The Ultimate Doom captured my child’s imagination with its sinister corridors and puzzle-like charm. Dark, foreboding, eerie and corny all at the same time, Doom gave me epic nightmares for years, and oddly for that reason I kept being drawn back. This was brilliant storytelling set in a quirky world of aerospace [...]

An illuminating look at the compulsion of invention Author: Graham Moore I was an English major. If you ask me how electricity is generated, you will hear crickets chirping. I don’t grasp the principles of electricity, and to be honest I don’t give them much thought. (As long as I have a working lamp on my bedside table so I can read at night, I’m good, thank you.)  How is it, then, that I could not put down Graham Moore’s The Last Days of Night? This historical novel about electricity—yes, really—is briskly moving and entirely engrossing. It breaks down the [...]

The Misery of Modernism: All the Reasons Why You Should Give Joyce a Miss Author: James Joyce Back to my snatched list of the 100 Greatest Books published by Easton Press and graciously uploaded by a long ago eBayer desperate to off-load some books, I was back in the classics game. Even better, I now have that fancy new Kindle and an Audible subscription, making books I previously couldn’t get on my outdated portable CD player available. My joy, however, was short lived when I saw the next book on that list was A Portrait of the Artist as a Young [...]