Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885 – 1945 by Martin Blumenson is my latest foray into biographies. After reading so much about Hitler and WWII in the past eight months, I wanted to read about the general who made such a difference in the war. This book, though not…

Under the Dome has been touted as Stephen King’s most ambitious work since The Stand. The Stand is probably my favorite book by King, so I picked up Under the Dome (actually, I pick up all of King’s work because … I have everything thing else of his so I…

Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s personal account of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster that claimed twelve lives. Hired to write an article for Outside magazine, Jon joined the 1996 Rob Hall team to document the commercialization of climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Krakauer is not just a…

Helen Rappaport’s The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg (a National Bestseller according to the cover) was supposed to be a historical narrative of the final fourteen days of the Tsar and his family. I found it neither a good story (as form is concerned) nor unbiased. Garbage.…

I finished a couple of books this week. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Overton Window by Glenn Beck. Oddly, the two books sort of go together. Bradbury’s classic is about censorship of books; Beck’s new release is a thriller about how far things can get out of hand…