261. Review-America Unraveling
October 27, 2008
America Unraveling, L. Scott Smith, 2008, ISBN 9780977940783
This book defends the expression of public faith in America, and has many unpleasant things to say about the present state of American culture.
The Founding Fathers intentionally created a "godless Constitution," because ...
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262. Review-Daydream Believers
October 24, 2008
Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power, Fred Kaplan, 2008, ISBN 0470121181
How American foreign policy got so off-track in the 21st Century has been well covered in other books. Why it got so off-track is the subject of this book.
It stems from two huge mi...
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263. Review-Your Government Failed You
October 24, 2008
This book takes an uncompromising look at the inability of the government to prevent security and intelligence failures, like those that occurred before 9/11.
Prior to the invasion of Iraq, the US Army had no counter-insurgency strategy. Part of the reason was to not resurrect unpleasant mem...
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264. Review-Barack Obama for Beginners
October 24, 2008
Barack Obama for Beginners: An Essential Guide, Bob Neer, 2008, ISBN 9781934389386
Here is a short (and neutral) biography of one of 2008’s Men Who Would be President.
Obama was born in 1961 in Hawaii to a Kenyan father who was studying economics at the University of Hawaii, and a ...
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265. Review-The Hunters of Pangaea
September 30, 2008
Here is a group of previously published stories and essays from Baxter, who is best known as a Hard SF writer (science fiction that emphasizes the science).
There is a story about early humans dinosaur hunting. There is a tale of an actual incident in the life of H.G. Wells (before he became...
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266. Review-Petrified World
September 29, 2008
Petrified World, Piotr Brnyczka, ISBN 9781894063111, 2008
Do you remember those "Choose Your Own Adventure" books from the 1980s? Well, they’re back.
You, the reader, are in a present-day airplane, traveling over Tibet after a trip to China. Suddenly, the plane develops engine trou...
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267. Review-We Need Madmen
September 22, 2008
We Need Madmen, Sam Smith, 2007, ISBN 9781904646457
This story takes place in a near-future Europe that has recently gotten over a new war, caused by a man named Soper.
It came about because of the newest attempt to purge Europe of "undesirables," like welfare spongers, slackers an...
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268. Review-Looking Glass Portal
September 16, 2008
Looking Glass Portal, Larriane Wills, 2007, ISBN 9781934041185
Garrett is your quintessential modern-day cowboy loner. He has spent the last 12 years cutting ties with everyone in his life, including his ex-wife and daughter. He is in constant physical pain, due to a non-removable piece of...
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269. Review-Firestorm of Dragons
September 08, 2008
Firestorm of Dragons, Michelle Acker and Kirk Dougal (ed.), 2008, ISBN 9781896944807
Here is a group of stories all about that mainstay of fantasy literature, the dragon.
Welcome to the new extreme sport of dragonscaling. The object is to climb a sleeping dragon, using ropes and pi...
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270. Review-Deadworld
September 02, 2008
Deadworld, Dennis Dufour, 2007, ISBN 9781425132491
Gabe Boudreau, a New York investigator, is called in to a crime scene with plenty of blood, but no bodies. He realizes that this will be an unusual case, but he has no idea how unusual it will be. At the same time, he is still in love with...
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Author: Paul Lappen
