I really didn’t think anything would top my cover of Dead Men Don’t Ski – as a lone skier ascends a mountain on a ski lift, the rocks below form a skull. I have a handful of Moyes books, no idea where they came from, and they all find a way of inserting a skull into the picture, as subtly as a rhino crashing through your living room. But the covers on Amazon are all gems. Like the one on the left, with the Grim […]
Good Intentions, Horrible Execution (No Pun Intended) (I Probably Shouldn’t Make Serial Killer Puns)
It’s important that I stress this first: Larry Crompton seems like a wonderful person and his dedication to the victims, even after his retirement from law enforcement, is more than admirable. That said, and even he agrees with me in the introduction, a writer he is not. And I don’t place the blame entirely on his shoulders either; the publisher should not just fire their editors, but draw and quarter them and then literally set them on fire. When the possessive form of “it” makes […]
Teenage Human Lab Rats is the New Name of My Band
I needed some mind bleach before I dove into my next true crime book and nothing is a better palate cleanser that young adult science fiction. Colfer can usually be counted on to deliver on that front, but this book was rather humdrum. But Colfer does at least include a bad ass girl and that’s a step above most young adult fiction these days. The book takes place in the not to distant future. Tactical lawyers help uphold the corporatocracy. Our hero, Cosmo Hill, lives […]
It was Arthur Leigh Allen. I Just Saved You Time.
Graysmith wrote what is considered the definitive book on the Zodiac back in the 80’s. It was so well researched and well done that when someone in a police department retired and another officer inherited the Zodiac case, that book was required reading. This is not that book. Due to libel, Graysmith wasn’t able to publish the circumstantial evidence that made Arthur Leigh Allen the best bet for the Zodiac. So once Allen kicked it (yeah, I know I shouldn’t be so flippant, but Allen […]
Raise Your Hand If You Have Ever Been Personally Victimized by Regina George
The Amazon link will take you to the book that I read, but i feel I should mention, if you do want to give this book a go, you might want to get the revised edition. The first edition was written in the early aughts, right before social media explosion, and I assume that might change a bit of Simmons’ theories. (I can’t completely vouch for the revised edition, I haven’t read it, but this edition was quite good, so I imagine the revised one […]
Play in Traffic, Run with Scissors, Set Yourself on Fire…
There are many, many, many other things you can do other than read this book. I suggest all of them. Yes, even the ones that may end in death and dismemberment. I feel bad for shitting on this book, just after reviewing Station Eleven and all its “ars gratia artis” and to art is to human feel good messages. But… This book is not good. I mean, I’m not the sole decider of what is and is not art. I went to MoMA last year […]
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