Summary: A relic hunter is forced into a quest for the “˜true shroud’. Christopher Buckley has a history of writing smart comic novels, usually about political subjects. But his last couple novels have fallen a bit flat. However, I still picked up The Relic Master when I saw it on sale at a BOGO sale at … Read more
I am reposting this 2010 review because the Kindle Edition is on sale for $1.99. When you read as much as I do every once in a while you need some palate cleansing. I am a huge fan of pickled ginger, which is always served with sushi and wasabi. Pickled ginger has great taste, but when you … Read more
Summary: A novel about a defense contractor lobbyist and a political commentator who get together to whip up furor over China in order to justify more weapons programs. Christopher Buckley is one of my favorite authors. But this is not one of my favorite of his books. Buckley’s books follow a similar path. Washington insiders, in a cynical, … Read more
Takeaway: If you don’t know what good satire is all about, you have not read anything by Christopher Buckley. Purchase Links: Hardcover, Paperback, Audible.com Audiobook I hate abridged audiobooks. You never know what you really are missing, you just know something is missing. Is it a good part, a lousy part. Is it five minutes … Read more
Every once in a while I need something to clense the pallet. Wait, that is how I started my review of No Way to Treat a First Lady. Well I am a big fan of Christopher Buckley’s humor. Darn it. That is how I started the review of Boomsday. At least I read Supreme Courtship … Read more
I am a big fan of Christopher Buckley’s fiction (I have not read any of his non-fiction yet.) No one writes better political satire than Buckley. So far I have read Supreme Courtship (about the nomination of a TV judge to the Supreme Court) and No Way To Treat a First Lady (about a former … Read more
Takeaway: What we think we want may not be what we need. Christopher Beha is an editor at Harper’s Weekly and co-editor of Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction. But it is because of John Wilson at Books and Culture that I picked up this book. Wilson mentioned Beha was one of the best … Read more
Summary: A satirically comic novel about scientists trying to understand the world around them. I needed something different to read, an audiobook novel, preferably a funny one. I looked around in the Audible Plus Catalog (audiobooks free to members) and picked Bellwether mostly because I enjoyed the humor of the two previous novels I had … Read more
Summary: A fantasy multi-verse where four worlds are connected via the city of London, and a dark magic wants to destroy them all. I have not enjoy a good fantasy book in a while. I picked up the audiobook of A Darker Shade of Magic up when it initially came out in early 2015. (It … Read more
Reposting this 2012 review because the audiobook is Audible’s Deal of the day today and on sale for $2.95. Summary: Comedy about an alien race that contacts a Hollywood agent about introducing them to the planet earth. This was a book I picked up on a whim. I was a bit burned out on my … Read more