Review:I can see a lot of people hating this book, because the main plot involves a 90 year old falling in love with a 14 year old virgin whore. And taken at face value, a lot of what goes on in this story can be pretty twisted--but having said that, I really don't think you're supposed to take this story at face value. The main protagonist, when you take a step back, is sad, and his insides are contorted with nostalgia and a lack of fulfillment in his life. I don't want to spoil too much, but it's pre... Read more

Review:This book tells the story of an old lonely man that never got married and whose only company are his fellow workers on a local newspaper. On his 90th. birthday he decides to spend the night with a whore, but not just any whore: she must be virgin.

Enter Delgadina, a teenager who is responsible of her brothers. She works in a factory and the money she makes is not enough for her, so she says yes when asked to have sex for money with an old man.

So the night comes and the old man dec... Read more

Review:I was hoping that being a Hunter fan that I'd enjoy this book but it was a really difficult read. It's slow and not any fun or even insightful. What great subject matter not to have a really cool story but it never came together at all. This is a pass and I must admit I couldn't even finish the book. Read more

Review:Frighteningly prescient, "It Can't Happen Here" follows the achievements of an ignorant blowhard who relies on platitudes and charisma to win the presidency, then lets the country fester under a reign of tyrannical fascism. The press is subverted and a military dictatorship ensues.

If I were to write this novel today, nobody would blink. But the fact that Lewis wrote this in the thirties when Hitler was a known commodity but before the invasion of Poland and the subsequent holocaust (and ... Read more

Review:pictures are great, but the words.... The limited vocabulary makes it nigh unreadable. I just cant get past it, it feels like I am being talked down to. I should have investigated more before I bought it, it is not what I expected. I expected the wordy wit of XKCD and a more through examination of those rather neat informative images he sometimes makes in his webcomic. Read more

Review:I almost felt as though I was reading a rap song instead of a book. I liked the story line and the main character but I couldn't always understand what he was saying with the long run-on sentences. Also some of the points he tried to make did not communicate well to me, maybe because of the different cultural issues. Read more

Review:I bought this book because I absolutely loved "Tenth of December," Saunders' latest book of short stories. Although I know "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" appeals to many readers and got rave reviews, the stories were too "way out there" for my taste. I just didn't enjoy reading these beautifully crafted stories with their science-fiction aspect. Read more

Review:This collection of six stories was my first exposure to Saunders, and it strikes me that the format and context probably wasn't the best for enjoying his sharp writing. I believe all of these stories originally appeared in magazines, and the problem is that by reading one a day over the course of a week, the similarities in setting, tone, theme, character become glaringly obvious. This doesn't mean the writing isn't good, but the collectivization of these stories certainly robs each of its indiv... Read more

Review:Should be required reading for anyone talking or thinking about Big Data and how it's used. This will be the first of many to make more sense of it than has been to date. It's fine to say don't start into big data efforts just for the sake of mountains of data, but have an objective, but most people haven't a clue how to begin to figure out what those objectives might be. This will help, but the future holds more ideas I'm sure. Still is nods toward the power and value of big data analyses that ... Read more

Review:What would you do if you woke up one day and realized that you’d missed out on the best things in life just because you were too scared to truly live? Good Luck With That follows Georgia and Marley as they struggle with the loss of their dear friend Emerson and what she asks of them on her death bed. They promise her they’ll fulfill her wishes, though neither is fully prepared for all that entails.

For Georgia, body image has been a central theme throughout her life, as much a part of her... Read more