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Singin' in the dead of night... Author: Greg Enslen Black Bird Cover I admire an author who swings for the fence with his first novel.  Greg Enslen did just that back in 2003 when he published Black Bird.  No baby steps into the horror genre for this author – he went for the full-on epic battle between good and evil.  His success is not as clear as his boldness in this brave endeavor, but he definitely gets props for putting it all out there. Black Bird, like any good horror epic, gives us two characters, Good and Evil, [...]

Wasted Youth? Author:  Wade Davis What is it about humans that drive them to risk their lives climbing the world’s highest mountains?  None other than George Mallory himself, when asked why he was trying to reach the summit of Mt Everest in 1924, said “Because it’s there”.  But author Wade Davis suspects that there’s a little more to it than that and in his book Into the Silence he explores that question in fascinating detail. While Mallory’s explanation is the pinnacle of concision, Davis opts for a more comprehensive approach, requiring close to 600 pages to tell the story of [...]