Recent Books
14 December 2008
- “Vacuum Diagrams”:amazon by Stephen Baxter. A pastiche of short stories, many in classic pulp style, strung together with some connective narrative to make into a somewhat interesting whole. Diverting but ultimately kind of hollow, the main character is pretty thin.
- “Meat Market”:amazon by Bruce Feldman. Nonfiction, Bruce sits inside the Mississippi team for a year following primarily their recruiting travails under (now former) head coach Ed Orgeron. Life on the margins of bigtime college football is tough for the players and the teams, gives me new appreciation for coaches that are able to lift programs up from the doldrums.
- “Nothing To Lose”:amazon by Lee Child. Another Reacher tale, this one is one of the weaker in the series, or maybe I am just Reachered out. This book starts to feel like it is heading toward Stephen King territory with Apocalyptic cults which seem to have possessed whole towns.
- “The Watchman”:amazon by Robert Crais. A Joe Pike thriller, this one is far more satisfying than the Reacher tale above. Characters are more human, and thus resolution of plot is far more satisfying.
