Sandman Slim – I LOVE this book! – brilliant, dark, witty, sharp, dirty, irreverent and hilarious. The first of a series -although this book stands on its own. However, I dare you after reading it to not want to grab the next one in the series! I have read the hard copy 2X and listened to the Audible version 2X. The narrator on Audible has a wonderfully raspy delivery – snarky and hilarious and totally rude. Love it. “Dark and dirty ass masterpiece” […]
Secret Societies, 24 hour bookstores, Oh My! Festina Lente!
I love this book – read it a couple times, listened to the Audible version – so yeah – I’m a fan. Ok here goes: combine one out of work web designer, a mysterious bookstore, a secret society, Google, Hadoop, encrypted messages and cute Data Visualization girl from Google and you have Mr Penumbra’s 24 bookstore. This book actually uses Hadoop as a plot point! So cool for us geeky data types. It is a little “San Francisco techie hipster” so maybe it […]
The Hunchback of Lausanne
Let’s see – toss together angels, call girls, a cathedral “guet”, Nephilim and creepy disconnected “shadows” and you get…”The Watchers – first of the Angelus Trilogy” by Jon Steele. A bit of a retelling of the “Hunchback of Notre Dame” going on here. There are three main characters – the first (and most likeable) is Marc Rochat – the “guet” of the Cathedral of Lausanne. “Guet” is an old military term for “watcher” and it is Marc’s job to “call the hours” when the […]
14 – The Apartment Too Good To Be True
“14” What a great fun book! Couldn’t put it down Our hero, Nate is a slacker SoCal loser dude. Down on his luck, no girlfriend, needs new apartment and – Bam! – he stumbles into the best deal ever on a cool vintage apartment in downtown LA. The Kavach Building. Ok – so, sure there are some rules, strange rules, kind of an odd super…but whatever right? It’s cheap, it’s nice, the power is free! the neighbors are nice. Oh, wait – […]
Cold War Espionage and Djinn
What do the Cold War, Mt Ararat, Lawrence of Arabia, Rudyard Kipling, the lost city of Ubar, ankhs, MI6, the French Resistance, Kim Philby, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Djinn all have in common? “Declare” by Tim Powers. “Supernatural suspense thriller” – yes – that does describe it, but it’s so much more. Layers upon layers. Secret hidden histories under secret societies and secret government organizations. You need to read this one carefully – there are nuances and layers and ….well you […]
Jazz Vampires
This is a follow on book to “Midnight Riot”
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