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A Real Narrative of the Lost Titanic of History Author: Erik Larson Erik Larson is somewhere between a historian and an old school story teller. You can almost imagine him sitting by a campfire, in the dark of some forest night, bringing long forgotten people and old tragedies alive again in a blisteringly real way that only the darkness and the imagination can evoke. No small wonder that Dead Wake has a cover photo of eerie darkness then, the very title itself, harvested from a maritime term, functioning as a double meaning for what I prefer to call “the lost Titanic of [...]

Needs a Booster Shot Author: John Benedict It’s been a while since I read a medical thriller. I used to gobble them up like candy, but you can overdose on these things pretty quickly (oh, yes, that pun was very much intended). Back in the day of Robin Cook’s Coma, there was something novel and terrifying about unethical doctors and science run amok. These days, in a saturated market, you need something pretty special to give your twisted hospital an edge. Sadly, Adrenaline just doesn’t have it. Adrenaline is the story of a group of anesthesiologists in a private practice [...]

Algerian absurdity... Author:  Albert Camus Cover of the original edition in 1942. The word “indifferent” doesn’t quite capture how unusual this man is. Meursault’s mother has just died in the nursing home.  Displaying little emotion, he attends the usual services, but quickly resumes his work duties and spends time courting his latest girlfriend.  He proceeds to get caught up helping his neighbor who has a dispute with some local Arabs and he eventually kills one of them with a revolver.  Meursault proceeds to trial and is incarcerated, awaiting his final punishment.  Aptly entitled The Stranger, the most remarkable [...]