By: Kim Hundrell “The Messiah of the Battlefield.” With vivid imagery and a powerful message, Dalton Trumbo weaves the intriguing tale of a WWI veteran who has lost all his limbs and senses, left in an anonymous hospital bed—it’s never specified in what country—with no discernable or identifiable markers,…
By: Vivian Wychil To be honest, I bought this book when a local Borders was going out of business because the company filed for bankruptcy and all their products were about fifty percent off. I could not honestly sit here and tell you that I would’ve read this book…
By: Einsteinlite Bonjour Laziness is a funny little book. It’s a laugh out loud book really, at least for the nonconformists out there who have ever had the pleasure of working for a megalithic Corporation. If you’re a guy who jumps up and salutes during the pledge of allegiance…
By: Timofey Rejouain Under a Cruel Star tells the story of Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czechoslovakian writer, narrated in the first person. In her memoir, Kovaly indicates in the very first sentence that there were three forces in her life that determined the person she would later become: Nazism,…
By: Jack Hindon Set in New Orleans back in the '60's, A Confederacy of Dunces is, next to Mark Twain, possibly one of the greatest pieces of Southern literature of all time. When I was first introduced to the book all I was told was that the author, John…
By: EinsteinLite A colleague used to visit my cube and say something like “Hitch-em-up’s at it again” and we’d both chuckle with understated glee. By this he meant that the notorious Christopher Hitchens had penned yet another controversial article and that I must absorb it as quickly as possible.…