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Moderately entertaining, but what about index funds?

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:34:31 +0000

Review of: Jim Cramer's mad money : watch TV, get rich by Cramer, Jim

Purely a guide to stock-picking, and gives short shrift to the fundamental question of whether an individual investor should even bother trying to beat index funds.

Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing, a Symposium by Editor Lloyd Arthur Eshbach; Robert A. Heinlein; J

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:32:17 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "a symposium by: Edward E. Smith, PhD John W. Campbell, Jr. L. Sprague de Camp Robert A. Heinlein Jack Williamson A.E. van Vogt John Taine the list of contributors says it all!"
DENNIS DOBSON (1965), Hardcover
tags: science fiction, sf, first edition, singleton

Death of a Salesman: 50th Anniversary Edition by Arthur Miller

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:31:28 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "A handsome edition, but I can think of many other single play volumes that I'd rather have. SALESMAN has never really grabbed me..."
Penguin (Non-Classics) (1999), Hardcover, 142 pages
tags: drama, theatre

a superb overview

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:24:38 +0000

Review of: The Rough guide to climate change by Henson, Robert, 1960-

A superb overview of climate change by a staff writer for NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (or is it UCAR?) anyway...

Lord of the Fire Lands: A Tale of the King’s Blades by Dave Duncan

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:18:11 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Maybe the single best installment in Duncan's sparkling King's Blades series. This was a gripping, and a troubling, read."
Avon Books (1999), Hardcover, 352 pages
tags: fantasy, ARC, advanced reading copy, first edition

Telzey Amberdon (Telzey Amberdon (Baen)) by James H. Schmitz

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:17:08 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "Telzey ROCKS! I wish someone would bring her back. "
Baen (2000), Mass Market Paperback, 448 pages
tags: science fiction, SF, collecting author highlights

Alvin Journeyman: The Tales of Alvin Maker IV (The Tales of Alvin Maker, 4) by Orson Scott Card

admin — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:15:13 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "I loved this series for the first few books, but the author seemed to run out of gas half-way through. I may well discard this."
Tor Books (1995), Hardcover, 381 pages

Why Dorothy Sayers’s papers are rightly at Wheaton College

admin — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:16:16 +0000

A Mysterious Gallimaufry - May 2, 2007 - The New York Sun

Fans of the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane might like to know that the Dorothy L. Sayers Society is holding its convention in America this year — at Wheaton College, which is just outside Chicago and is the unlikely repository of her papers.

Actually, it’s not at all unlikely that Wheaton College is the repository for Sayers’s papers. Wheaton College is the “Harvard of U.S. evangelicals”, a center for Christian scholarship. Sayers was a devout lifelong Christian.

Technorati Tags: Dorothy Sayers, Wheaton College, mystery

Books I Won’t Be Reading: Ollie North’s Eight-Book Deal

admin — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:34:08 +0000

Ollie North Signs Eight-Book Deal - 5/15/2007 - Publishers Weekly

With 2007 marking the 20th anniversary of the Iran-Contra hearings, one of those proceedings best-known figures, Oliver North, has signed a multibook deal with the Christian house B&H Publishing Group. The contract calls for North to do four fiction titles plus four nonfiction titles based on his Fox News Channel show, War Stories. North will co-write the novels with Austin Boyd, a former navy pilot and published author.

What?

I know his books will sell because he has a TV show, and my wife still remembers him as that handsome clean-cut guy who made Congress look stupid.

Argh.

Technorati Tags: Ollie North, Iran-Contra, Reagan

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

admin — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:18:44 +0000

wfzimmerman's review: "A handsome anniversary edition of one of the best film novelizations, ever."
NAL Hardcover (1999), Hardcover, 256 pages