Tag: book of the week

Book of the Week: Zodiac.

Some might find Zodiac by Neal Stephenson to be an interesting choice for Book of the Week – it’s about heroic eco-activists – but it’s a good book, and a more pragmatic one than what one might be perhaps predisposed to assume. At any rate, it’s also my blog and if I want to flog a particular book, I shall. Neener.

And so we say goodbye to Leviathan, which is good – although I hadn’t realized at the time that it was also Young Adult. Not that I mind, given that it’s also steam/biopunk.

Book of the Week: Leviathan.

This week’s Book of the Week is frankly speculative: Leviathan is apparently alternate history (WWI) steampunk, which pushes a lot of my buttons. Although I suspect that I’ll be stuck with waiting for this one in paperback.

And so, it being Sunday, we say farewell to Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between.

Book of the Week: ‘Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates’

Yeah, I know: but Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (and Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between was something that I had grabbed for my wife to pass the time while waiting for midwife appointments, mostly because of the cover art.  I’m reading it now, on the thumbs-up that my wife gave it: it is in fact pretty funny so far.

And so, it being Sunday, we replace Take Back Your Government  with it.

Book of the Week: Take Back Your Government.

This one via Instapundit, and I’ve heard of it in the past:Take Back Your Government, by Bob Heinlein. I’d say “Yes, the Bob Heinlein” – except that nobody would dare write under the same name. It’s a practical treatise on local electoral politics that I suspect a bunch of people would like to read right now.

And, it being Sunday, we say goodbye to Destroyer of Worlds.

Book of the Week: Destroyer of Worlds.

I was originally going to go with Going Rogue: An American Life, solely on the basis that I actually bought it (I typically ignore partisan political books); except that I’ve already slapped it up there on the sidebar and a nontrivial percentage of my readership doesn’t really give a damn.

So… Larry Niven’s Destroyer of Worlds, which replaces Lovecraft Unbound.

Moe Lane

Book of the Week: Lovecraft Unbound.

I’m in the middle of it now: Lovecraft Unbound is interesting mostly because it’s a Lovecraft-themed collection of short stories, with very little if any Mythos content. It’s always interesting to see who’s gotten ensnared by the writer, often in spite of themselves*: the prejudices and assumptions of HPL are ones that frankly grate on modern sensibilities, and yet… if you have any fondness for the horror genre, you can’t escape Lovecraft. Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore him.

And so, it being Sunday, we replace Torch of Freedom (Honorverse).

Moe Lane

*Michael Chabon and Joyce Carol Oates are the most well-known ones in this anthology.

Book of the Week: And Another Thing…

Well, you knew this was coming. I almost picked it up yesterday, but I can get it for roughly a quarter off if I’m willing to wait a few days for it. I did look through enough of it to assuage my main fears; the author took his assignment seriously.

So we say good-bye to Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season, and hello to And Another Thing…. Please, God: don’t let it suck.

Moe Lane