When I was in high school many eons ago, I went on a kick reading a bunch of books written by science-fiction great Isaac Asimov. Over a period of a few months, I probably read close to two dozen of Asimov's books. About a month ago, I decided to give some of them a re-read […]
As I was doing some traveling this past weekend I had the opportunity to listen to the audiobook of Candice Millard's "Destiny of the Republic," on President James A. Garfield and his assassination. Though I have not yet finished it, it is an excellent, gripping story. What prompts this comment on the book is a […]
Earlier this week I plowed through Tim Groseclose’s new book “Left Turn: How Liberal Media Bias Distorts the American Mind.” Conservatives have known for at least a couple decades that the media is far more liberal than the public at large. And any conservative who’s actually worked in a newsroom knows that the bias is […]
Perhaps the most frustrating part of Tom Clancy’s last work, “Teeth of the Tiger,” released back in 2003, was the fact that the “Emir” wasn’t dealt with. The Emir, a rough analogue to Osama bin Laden, was the moving force behind the bad guys in the last book, and at the end he was no […]
I just got finished reading the 2-fer of Greg Bear’s sci-fi collection “Darwin’s Radio” and its sequel “Darwin’s Children.” Bear is known as a “hard” sci-fi writer in that his works hew very closely to science as we know it. Bear follows that model here as he spins a story involving viruses, the human genome […]
I’ve been doing quite a bit of reading lately, so here’s your quick Sunday books section. First, I mentioned Jay Richards’s “Money, Greed and God” last week regarding a quote from Sojourners’ head Jim Wallis. I’ve since finished the book and I strongly encourage people to pick it up. Richards goes through what the Bible […]
I’m reading Jay W. Richards’s book “Money, Greed and God” and I’m really enjoying it. I came across this one paragraph that’s really jumped out at me. In the same vein, after the U.S. Senate voted to raise the minimum wage in February 2007, the Reverend Jim Wallis announced that “God hates inequality.” Ron Sider’s […]
Six hours on planes this week going to and from Texas for a business trip gave me the opportunity to catch up on my reading. Edward J. Larson's "A Magnificent Catastrophe" is a unique look into what was really the first American political contest for the presidency. The book revolves around the 1800 election and […]
I’ve just started reading Stephen Hunter’s latest novel, “I, Sniper” and it has perhaps the best opening pages of any book in recorded history. I just can’t describe the smile it brings to my face as characters not-at-all subtly based on Jane Fonda, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn get their just rewards in such detailed […]
I just finished two Clive Cussler books to wrap up this extended holiday weekend (the first one I’ve had in a decade and a half). The first was “The Wrecker” the sequel to the exciting “The Chase” introducing us to the character of Isaac Bell, the top agent with the Van Dorn Detective Agency. Like […]