Lucas Davenport is one of the great anti-heroes in modern fiction. The Prey series is seriously well done, all eleventy-hunnert & 12 books of it … if you (Other Person, You) like Reacher you’ll likely enjoy the exploits of ex-hockey player turned cop turned … vigilante (?) with a badge. Major difference? He’s a great …
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“Baying and Screaming”
I’m laughing as I look at that. The visual is pristine. And not to get into the Tom Cruise controversy but to get into the Tom Cruise controversy … … he is Ethan Hunt, not Jack Reacher. Reacher is blond, blue-eyed(?), 6’5, and around 250 pounds, and Tom Cruise is not.… (that’s about 18 stone …
A Flying Building? Really?
Well that was entertaining. But Steve always (well, mostly … almost) is. Hearts in Atlantis made no sense. Anyhoo … One of the things I like best about Stephen King’s writing is how so many of his protagonists are young boys/men, right on the cusp of adulthood. Must be some lingering trauma there, but makes …
All Gold Err’thang
Or, better yet, shiny things. Mansa Musa, the richest man who ever lived, had a bag worth $400B in today’s bucks, and even managed to devalue gold by spreading it around. Bozos and the oily, musky ferret funk got nothing on that guy. Well, that guy lived/reigned some 700 years ago, so there is that. …
Feet First
Interesting little factoid / as described by wikiwiki … stocks are used as restraining devices for the feet, a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation (á la social spanking). The pillory, by contrast, is distinguishable via its confinement of hands and head/neck. So now we just get pilloried by stocks. Ahh, this. The Fab …
Bonds Over Baghdad
As far as financial instruments go … bonds are boring. And confusing. Maybe that is the point. Think about it — rate v. yield v. total return. Wat. Yahn. Well, rate = interest, or the money the bond is supposed to make. Yield = a question, or does interest compound? If so, what is the …
The Four Horsemen of Consumption
Only four things to do with the thing after spending money on the thing. Use it. Sell it. Gift it. Toss it. Most folks will use/consume it – whatever it is – for a bit then either give/gift it to someone else, try to sell it in exchange for cash/(rarely) trade, or throw it away …
Dante Said There Were How Many?
Wow, OK … um, yeah. Good book, although I have to say I’m a bit … discomfited by the ending. Not a popular author, though he(?) should be. Nice quick&dirty read. A guy wakes up on a bus without knowing who he is or how he got there, and the story just develops from there. …
Don’t Believe the Hype
There’s only one book that I started and did not finish, and I regret that to this day. Wonder how it all turned out. Well not really, because it was nonfiction, about past and current events, but still. Nonetheless, however, despite, irrespective … this latest book? Sucked. The salutations and praise heaped on its covers? …
Bring Marshmallows
Just finished a re-read of a great novel … Robert R. McCammon, should look him up. Writes big epic fiction, lots of immersive fun. “They Thirst.” “Swan Song.” Etc. Latest … “Speaks the Nightbird” about witchery in a small, emerging New World township, pirate’s gold and Jack One Eye (not what you think, you dirty …