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I recently vacationed at a fishing lodge with my two nephews. Normally, I never travel without one or two books but for some reason forgot them this time. Like most lodges, each cabin usually has a few works of "literature" lying around. In this case, the library consisted of a couple of sci-fi...

He has covered a fair bit of ground stylistically and unfortunately many of his books are hard to track down. Good starting points would be Neighbors or The Feud (his two best in my opinion) both insightful, condemning of social foibles and funny as hell. Killing time is a departure but...

Where to begin After repeated attempts by friends to shove the book into my hands I finally broke down and read I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb. It reminded me of a poorly written after school special. The writing is so trite and precious at times that I laughed out loud. LOTR -...

Wondering if there are other Tim Sandlin fans aboard who have read the Grovont trilogy beginning with Skipped Parts (in my opinion one of the best coming of age novels) Western Swing, Sex and Sunsets are excellent and his newest, Honey Don't is a slice of comic heaven. Haven't seen his...

This stems from a discussion I had recently with a very well read and erudite female friend concerning the merit of Margaret Atwood and my opinion that there was little. We then began to discuss whether or not the gender of the reader should be a factor in the evaluation and critique of the read...

As a huge fan of the author I am always curious as to why his name never seems to come up and why, after 24 novels, his is still little known. The Reinhart trilogy is fantastic, Little Big Man is lovely, Killing Time is a great meditation on violence and society and Neighbor's is possibly the...