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:sad: 'Spenser' novelist Robert Parker dies at age 77 - Yahoo! News

There was a Trench Coat Mafia, but neither killer (Eric Harris or Dylan Kliebold) were part of it, though they did know some of the people in it. They also borrowed the name for a video project they made for a class, and in that video they wore trench coats (or dusters or whatever.) However, the...

Columbine by Dave Cullen. I don't care for the author's style that much; he jumps around a lot. That aside, though, it's very interesting to learn the truth about what happened that day (and in the years leading up to it.) Forget everything you heard in the media about the "Trench Coat Mafia"...

I have the blessing/curse of loving to read but being very picky about what I read. I really have trouble finding stuff I like. And once or twice a year, it seems, I get in a mood where I can't find anything to read and fall back on an old reliable - Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Like with...

I read a great one last year called In Broad Daylight. I liked it so much I started a thread on it: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/f6/excellent-true-crime-book-i-read-16020.html I've tried a few other true crime stories since then, which were interesting but nowhere near as enjoyable...

I'm reading Crush the Cell by Michael A. Sheehan. The subtitle is "How to Defeat Terrorism Without Terrorizing Ourselves." The author is a former Army officer and counterterrorism expert (among other things) who explains what al Qaeda really is, why they do what they do and how he feels we...

Cool! I'm 32 and was thinking about going for a Master's earlier this year, until I lost my job in a downsizing. (Don't worry, I have a new job now.) It would be interesting to see how the movie is different from the book.

What I found particularly interesting is that the new title picks up directly where Fleming left off, rather than doing like Gardner's and Benson's entries and having Bond stay around the same age through decades a la a comic book character. World's most famous spy, James Bond, back in book...

Grand Theft Jesus by Robert S. McElvaine. I attended a Lutheran school from pre-school through eighth grade, and I can't understand how 3/4 of what passes for "Christianity" these days runs contrary to what Jesus is quoted as saying in the Bible. And I am loving this book.

Right now I'm reading Murder in the Heartland, a true-crime volume about a really disturbing murder in rural Missouri. You've probably heard of the case - a young pregnant woman was killed by an older woman who then cut the fetus out of the victim and tried to pass the baby off as her own...

I recently read an excellent, excellent true crime book that I want to recommend. (I know it sounds like I'm gushing, but don't worry, I'm not related to the author nor do I own stock in the publisher. ;) ) The book is In Broad Daylight by Harry N. McLean. It tells the story of a rather...

There's also the John Carpenter film In the Mouth of Madness, which was heavily influenced by Lovecraft's work although he wasn't acknowledged in the credits. It's an okay movie.

It took me almost a month after its release, but I finally saw the film version of The Mist a week ago. I liked it, but it wasn't a classic or anything. It certainly wasn't scary (when are filmmakers going to get it through their heads that CGI effects don't work in horror films???) but it was...

I saw the movie on its opening night. It was good, not great. (Far from great, actually.) For those of you that haven't seen it, I won't give anything away but I will say it's not the more faithful adaptation (as compared to the first two film versions) that we fans of the novel were hoping for...

Yet another one waiting for me on my bookshelf... :(