Book Reviews: Index

My book shelf at Powell's


Book Review 01: Some days you just can’t get rid of a demon

Practical Demon Keeping
Christopher Moore

Book Review 02: What do you do when the gods mess with your life?

Cayote Blue
Christopher Moore

Book Review 03: And my head didn't hurt too much

Dance Dance Dance
Haruki Murakami

Book Review 04: An Obsession in Soil

The $64 Tomato: How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden.
William Alexander

Book Review 05: Cue the Chase Music

All Families are Psychotic
Douglas Coupland

Book Review 06: You Mean That's It?

The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami

Book Review 07: Free Markets Gone Nuts

Jennifer Government
Max Barry

Book Review 08: What is Data?

Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson

Book Review 09: Want to See What I Wrote?

The Art of Creative Nonfiction
Lee Gutkind

Book Review 10: A Book on Books

Library: An Unquiet History
Matthew Battles

Book Review 11: Drugs and Existential Crises

A Scanner Darkly
Phillip K. Dick

Book Review 12: Short Stories on a Long Night

Tokyo Cancelled
Rana Dasgupta

Book Review 13: Flow and Gel

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Tom DeMarco
Timothy Lister

Book Review 14: A Great Character Study

Indecision
Benjamin Kunkel

Book Review 15: Two Books in One

Star Trek Memories
William Shatner

Book Review 16: What it means to Act

I am not Spock
Leonard Nimoy

Book Review 17: A story of recovery

The Longest Trek
Grace Lee Whitney

Book Review 18: About the movies

Star Trek Movie Memories
William Shatner

Book Review 19: Sorry about that

I am Spock
Leonard Nimoy

Book Review 20: New frontiers

Beyond Uhura
Nichelle Nichols

Book Review 21: A whale of a tale

Fluke, or I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Christoper Moore

Book Review 22: A fun, absurd mystery

The Big Over Easy
Jasper Fforde

Book Review 23: Language like 20 year-old Balsamic Vinegar

Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami

Book Review 24: American Cinema, Andrew Jackson, and more

Take the Cannoli
Sarah Vowell

Book Review 25: What's the point?

Tokyo Suckerpunch: A Billy Chaka Adventure
Isaac Adamson

Book Review 26: An important idea

The Long Tail: Why the Future Is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson

Book Review 27: Awesome Sci-Fi Thriller

Infected
Scott Sigler

Book Review 28: Surprisingly Deep

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Chuck Klosterman

Book Review 29: Seattle -- Demon Hunting Ground

The Iron Hunt
Marjorie M. Liu

Book Review 30: Compelling Hollywood mystery

Gone
Jonathan Kellerman

Book Review 31: How to become wealthy

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko

Book Review 32: Bedtime Stories

Asleep
Banana Yoshimoto

Book Review 33: Omnes Mundum Facimus

Bad Monkeys
Matt Ruff

Book Review 34: Cryptonomicon

Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson


Book Review 35: Up Till Now

Up Till Now
William Shatner

Book Review 36: Beam Me Up, Scotty

Beam Me Up, Scotty
James Doohan

Book Review 37: Warped Factors -- A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe

Warped Factors
Walter Koenig

Book Review 38: To The Stars

To The Stars
George Takei

Book Review 39: Just a Geek

Just a Geek
Wil Wheaton

Book Review 40: The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
Christopher Moore

Book Review 41: Spook Country

Spook Country
William Gibson

Book Review 42: Watchmen

Watchmen
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Book Review 43: Contagious

Contagious
Scott Sigler

Book Review 44: Prelude to Foundation

Prelude to Foundation
Isaac Asimov

Book Review 45: After Dark

After Dark
Haruki Murakami

Book Review 46: Lamb. The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Christopher Moore