2009-04-14 20:12
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah BerryIt was a simple life for Charles Unwin. He rode his bicycle everyday to the Agency wh… Read More
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2009-03-28 08:52
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of: The Sun and the Moon by Matthew GoodmanAs newspapers are closing down in 2009, author Matthew Goodman takes a look at the tenu… Read More
2009-03-22 22:13
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of:by George by Wesley StaceA tale of two Georges. George Fisher during WWII and George Fisher of the 1970’s. Two boys relat… Read More
2009-03-07 08:10
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of:Alex & Me by Irene M. PepperbergAfter trying (and failing) to write this review without bias towards Dr. Pepperberg and her… Read More
2009-03-07 08:10
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of:Alex & Me by Irene M. PepperbergAfter trying (and failing) to write this review without bias towards Dr. Pepperberg and her… Read More
2009-02-25 06:29
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of:Noir by Olivier PauvertAn un-named protagonist wakes to find a woman mutilated and hanging from a tree. Before he can figure ou… Read More
2009-02-15 08:39
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of:Peaches & Daddy by Michael M. Greenburg "...Edward Browning was 51 when he met Frances 'Peaches' Heenan at a sorority dance… Read More
2009-02-15 08:39
NoBSBookReviewshas moved to Today.comread the latest review of:Peaches & Daddy by Michael M. Greenburg "...Edward Browning was 51 when he met Frances 'Peaches' Heenan at a sorority dance… Read More
2009-02-05 03:16
It was a dark and stormy night...Boston, Scollay Square, 1960. Flo is alone and pregnant and being followed by drunken sailors. All she wants is a safe, dry place to rest. Escaping her pursu… Read More
2009-01-26 07:06
"If Sesame Street is the most successful show on television, it is also the most analyzed, criticized, evaluated, debated, debunked, championed, viewed with alarm, pointed to with pride, int… Read More
2009-01-16 06:20
Imagine the possibilities, if the intellectual Henry and William James of the east, were brothers to the villainous Frank and Jesse James of the west.This is the premise of Richard Liebmann… Read More
2009-01-06 09:39
"A bad man in Africa""A brain as well as a body""A possible victim of alien abduction""A Beatle"These are among the lives chronicled in The Economist Book of Obituaries.Unlike most newspaper… Read More
2008-12-28 06:07
What becomes of a small-time dealer in rare books when he stumbles upon a possible photographic goldmine?This is the scenario of Hubert's Freaks, by Gregory Gibson.While soul-searching his w… Read More
2008-12-16 21:41
Edward Montague and Jean-Claude Legard are medical students in London. The time is the early 1800's and medical cadavers are hard to come by...legally that is...After hiring a young resurre… Read More
2008-12-08 01:18
For all the "lovable slackers" of the world...Not living up to your potential? Credit cards maxed out? Behind on your bills? Living paycheck to paycheck? Motivated by beer? Aged 25 going on… Read More
2008-11-27 05:19
The Players:William "Billy" Burns: destined to be the first director of the FBI.Clarence Darrow: destined to be known as, possibly, the greatest trial lawyer in American history.D.W. Griffi… Read More
2008-11-17 09:29
Sorine Bentsdatter is a Danish dwarf in the court of King Frederik IV. When the king is visited by Russia's tsar Peter Alexeyevich (Peter the Great), Sorine is pleased to be given to the ts… Read More
2008-11-06 19:56
Oh, the dreaded call to customer service! You begin with a simple question in mind and the highest hopes of a quick resolve. When the operator picks up you discover, not an operator but an… Read More
2008-10-28 19:33
On Friday, June 22, 1934, at the age of 39, Nellie May Madison was convicted of “murder in the first degree” in the shooting death of her husband of less than one year, Eric Madi… Read More
2008-10-20 00:58
In the 1930's and '40's "Murder Inc." was running New York city and the "Borscht Belt" of the Catskills area where it's members spent their weekends in the summer seasons enjoying the accomm… Read More
2008-10-08 16:02
"Dr Brinkley is the foremost money-making surgeon in the world, because he had sense enough to know the weaknesses of human nature and gall enough to make a million dollars a year out of it… Read More
2008-09-27 23:51
With a wonderfully entertaining introduction by John Hodgman, The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes is an interesting mix of hilarious and “huh?” collected from McSweeney… Read More
2008-09-17 17:13
Set in London and Cornwall, The Swap is the story of, Harvey, a slacker comic book store owner who, as a teen, traded a first edition Superman One comic to Bleeder Odd, a school outcast for… Read More
2008-09-10 22:32
I picked this book up thinking, by the title, that it would be a good jumping off point for someone who has not studied Kafka and has yet to read any of his works. For the most part…I… Read More
2008-08-29 03:24
Author Peter Kocan was sentenced to “life” in 1966. He spent many years in an Australian hospital for the criminally insane for the attempted assassination of Labor leader Arthur… Read More
2008-08-29 03:24
Almost twenty years after his death the inexplicable life and works of Salvador Dali are still a mystery. And con-men continue to make financial gains by using his name.In Dali & I, Stan… Read More
2008-08-29 03:24
Author Peter Kocan was sentenced to “life” in 1966. He spent many years in an Australian hospital for the criminally insane for the attempted assassination of Labor leader Arthur… Read More
2008-08-29 03:24
Almost twenty years after his death the inexplicable life and works of Salvador Dali are still a mystery. And con-men continue to make financial gains by using his name.In Dali & I, Stan… Read More
2008-08-29 03:24
The last time anyone saw Mary C. Rogers of New York was Sunday July 25, 1841. To this day the crime remains unsolved. While Stashower makes no attempt to unravel this mystery in The Beautifu… Read More
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