Gardner’s Top of the Heap Det. Donald Lam is hired to locate two women who could verify the whereabouts of a man thought to be involved in the disappearance of well known, San Francisco socialite. Unsatisfied with the outcome coupled with a feeling that his client’s story stinks, Lam lets his instincts take him further…
Mieville’s Perdido Street Station Unless you’re reading this book as an anthropomorphized thesaurus, this will be a quick and somewhat easy read for you. If you’re not, you may struggle with a word here and there. While I’m not original in telling you that Mieville is a wordsmith, it should be somewhat of a disclaimer…
Will Christopher Baer’s Kiss Me, Judas Have you ever loved someone who’s mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to…
Artist Rendering of New Crobuzon I’ve been reading this book for about two weeks now (I’m only at page 200!) and I thought I would share the following thoughts: At this point in my life, I have yet to be immersed in a world so fully realized as Mieville’s New Crobuzon. As descriptive as Mieville…
Gotham Central Vol 3: On The Freak Beat I honestly didn’t expect to love this series as much as I did when I started it. The fact that you’re asking me to read about Gotham but you’re not going to give a whole lot of love to The Dark Knight himself? Blasphemy! Turns out when…
Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars The Dog Stars is a strange book in the sense that it has absolutely no right to be as good as it is. Not taking anything away from Peter Heller, the man is an accomplished non-fiction writer with countless best sellers. It’s just the fact that this is his first…
Stephen King’s The Gunslinger In the last 3 years, I’ve begun to read pretty much constantly. I’ve always got one or two novels on the go but recently, I’ve realized that I had never read anything written by Stephen King. On a recommendation from the internetz, I decided to give the Dark Tower series a…
I only really know Moshe Kasher from the two times I’ve heard him as a guest on Stop Podcasting Yourself, an excellent podcast from Vancouver based comedians Graham Clark and Dave Shumka. His appearances were pretty funny, the guy has a quick wit and an interesting sense of humor. On his most recent two appearances, he talked about writing a…
Every Read Thing 