Incredibly Hot Sex with Hideous People - Bryce Galloway

Posted 5:08am Monday 10th October 2011

(4/5) I think the first port of call for this review is to point out that this book is not about sex (apart from the occasional reference) or hideous people (as far as the sparse photographs show). It is an abridged collection of the first 37 issues of Bryce Galloway’s fanzine. Generally Read more...

The Fat Years

Posted 4:02am Monday 3rd October 2011

Author: Chan Koonchung; translated from Chinese by Michael S. Duke Publisher: Doubleday 1/5 Two years in the future, in China, things are afoot. A month has been forgotten. Luckily we are protagonised by Old Chen, one of those writers who doesn't write. And he ends up trying to solve Read more...

Nelson Mandela by Himself - Nelson Mandela

Posted 6:14am Monday 19th September 2011

“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”   Under the apartheid government of South Africa, it was illegal to quote Nelson Mandela. He is now among the most quoted people in the world, Read more...

Lauren Kate

Posted 10:33pm Monday 22nd August 2011

The New Stephanie Meyer? I met Lauren Kate with low expectations. A quick google and perusal of Wikipedia produced multiple parallels between her work and Twilight, the vampire series that has inexplicably reached demigod status in the world of teenage literature. Kate is from Texas, the Read more...

Smokin’ Seventeen

Posted 11:37pm Monday 8th August 2011

Author: Janet Evanovich Smokin’ Seventeen is the latest instalment in the long-running Stephanie Plum series, a series that is a classic example of when an author didn’t know to stop. Evanovich jumped the shark long ago, as each book is more ludicrous and less plausible than the Read more...

Screwjack

Posted 3:53am Monday 25th July 2011

Author: Hunter S Thompson, (4/5), Screwjack is a small collection of three short stories. Initially only 300 collector’s copies and 26 leather bound books were published, and one could expect to pay upwards of a thousand dollars for a copy.   The book is introduced by Read more...

The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul

Posted 4:04am Wednesday 6th July 2011

Author: Deborah Rodriguez, Publisher: Bantam, (1/5). I will admit it from the outset; I didn’t finish this book. It looked like a light, easy read, probably about women with troubles finding friendship. My first mistake was to browse the back. A quote caught my eye: “as if Read more...

Machine of Death: a collection of stories about people who know how they will die

Posted 12:46am Friday 1st July 2011

Author: Various; Eds. Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, & David Malki “This book, unlike most others, started its life as an off hand comment made by a bright green Tyrannosaurus Rex”   The book is based on a comic from Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comics in which T-Rex Read more...

Dragon Ball books 1-16

Posted 6:37am Thursday 19th May 2011

Author: Akira Toriyama, Publisher: Vizbig, (5/5). Dragon Ball is the creation of the prolific manga writer/illustrator Akira Toriyama. It was successful from the start and went on to sell a record-breaking 120 million copies, was made into a television series, continued with Dragon Ball Z and Read more...

Cartoon Movement

Posted 6:19am Thursday 5th May 2011

Various authors. www.cartoonmovement.com (3/5). Another website you should take a look at if your bag is already too heavy to be dragging a book around is Cartoon Movement. It describes itself as “the internet's #1 publishing platform for high quality political cartoons and comic Read more...