Omnivoracious: Omni Daily News: Remembering J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, Louis Auchincloss
J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) CNN has reported that author J.D. Salinger passed away yesterday at his home in Cornish, N.H. Jerome David Salinger was 91 years old.
Yes, I know, he turned into a crotchety hermit, and he was a one-hit wonder, but […]
The War After Armageddon
Ralph Peters has donned his techno-thriller hat, labored mightily, and written an amazingly silly book. And I don’t know why.
The premise is interesting: A war against jihadi Islam, with the action taking place mostly in the middle east. We are told that the conflict erupts when Muslim terrorists explode nukes […]
Why Kindles should replace Books (when traveling)
Or you might replace your Kindle with an iPod running a Kindle App, to save even more room, and have larger storage.
I always remind people from outside our state that there’s plenty of room for all of Alaska’s animals — right next to the mashed potatoes.”
Sarah Palin in Going Rogue. Via St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Report: Palin’s book sells 300,000 copies … on its first day
From the comments:
Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former […]
Novels of the Right | John Miller | Hey Miller
I plan to compile a short list of great conservative novels for a future issue of National Review. Want to make a recommendation? Please post it in the comments section–just click the “comment” line above.
There are about two hundred comments at the moment, each with a […]
The First Assassin - John J. Miller - The Corner on National Review Online
The First Assassin [John J. Miller]
My brand-new novel, a historical thriller called The First Assassin, is now available on Amazon.com. The listing is less than 24 hours old. You can order copies right now. My personal website has more about […]
Vince Flynn’s new Mitch Rapp thriller is out:
Buy it, and you get a great read, while I get a few coins. A win-win!
There are times when I just can’t stand the thought of another post about politics, especially in these filthy, depressing times.
So here’s a list that showed up in one of John Sandford’s Prey Series Lucas Davenport novels. Sandford isn’t his real name, it is John Camp, and I first met him on misc.writing, the […]
The BIG Black Lie: How I Learned The Truth About The Democrat Party
A poignant yet hilarious narrative with his life as the backdrop for a black conservative’s coming of age story. Readers are treated to an insightful journey through the eyes of a black kid who had many pressures to succumb to the victimology of […]
The Volokh Conspiracy - Orwellian?
In the comments, “splunge” explains why geek lawyers are missing the point about Amazon:
The ratio of silly posturing to rational evaluation here is saddening. Amazon makes some mildly careless business decisions, finds itself crosswise of an angry publisher, and does its best to stay out of Court, thus saving its shareholders […]
One Second After
Eventually, this will probably be known simply as “the EMP book.” Forstchen is a workmanlike writer, but, as he admits right up front, in this case his craftsmanship is devoted to presenting an idea rather than any effort to make the dubious leap into literature.
He does it well, given that […]
Economics Does Not Lie: A Defense of the Free Market in a Time of Crisis
Looks interesting.
An Apple Mac Tablet Could Challenge Amazon.com’s Kindle
Apple could be rolling out a Mac Tablet in the first half of 2010, according to widely circulated Wall Street analyst report. While Apple has publicly shot down suggestions that it would enter the mininotebook or netbook market, the existence of a multitouch tablet device could represent a […]
S. Weasel
There’s awfully bad blood there, still. There are huge differences in history, in attitude, in economics. The closest thing in the States would be the urban/rural divide, with the Scots playing the role of resource-sucking inner-city welfare queens. Labour stuck a giant funnel in the South and has spent a decade siphoning resources to […]
I have read most all of these and tend to agree with the list as a whole not as a ranking. Heinlein was obvious, the one I found intriguing was #4. I have read and re-read that one until the cover is coming off of it.
(Via Libertarian Samizdata)
Thirty books every high schools student should read before graduation.
Seems a reasonable list to me, even if the goal is patently ridiculous. Given that one out of four high school studens will never graduate, and of those who do, another one out of four will be functionally illiterate, unable even to grasp the content […]
Hardcover Nonfiction - List - NYTimes.com
Hardcover NonfictionPublished: April 3, 2009
This Week Last Week Weeks on List
1 Liberty and Tyranny, by Mark R. Levin. (Threshold Editions, $25.) A conservative manifesto from a talk-show host and president of Landmark Legal Foundation.
Congratulations to Mark!
Now go buy the book and read it.
I’ve been reading through the Jack Reacher series of novels, and find myself conflicted.
Reacher as a hero is in the Vince Flynn mold - rough, tough, brutal, more than willing to wreak personal physical havoc on his enemies, and extremely well equipped to do so.
These are the sorts of heroes I like in the thriller […]
I just downloaded to my Kindle Mark Levin’s new book:
I’m very pleased they opened with a Kindle Edition right out of the box. I shouldn’t be surprised. Levin is the smartest of the conservative talkers, as far as I’m concerned. He probably demanded it.
Anyway, thanks for that. I’ll be reviewing this […]
I’ll be posting a major review of Angelo Codevilla’s monumental, magisterial Advice to War Presidents: A Remedial Course in Statecraft.
Short take: If you wish to understand how the most powerful nation in the history of the planet could tie itself in so many helpless knots over the past century, and is still doing so today, […]
Poll: Obama Opens 14-Point Lead On McCain, CBS News/New York Times Survey Shows Major Swing Among Independents, Suggests McCain’s Strategy May Be Hurting Him - CBS News
(CBS) Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is entering the third and final presidential debate Wednesday with a wide lead over Republican rival John McCain nationally, a new CBS News/New […]
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Intrepid by Bill White and Robert Gandt | Broadway Books
This looks interesting.
Peggy Noonan has a new book out:
Patriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now
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