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I just finished Fear the Worst. A car salesman's daughter disappears and he is looking for her in his spare time rather than sitting at home hoping the police will find her. He ends up entangled is something much bigger than a runaway teen. This is a good thriller, it's a page burner in fact. It...

Well crap. They went back to the black and white this week. Still love me a WSJ weekend edition though, best book coverage around.

A search for Darcie Chan turned up no results, so I'll just tack this post into this thread. She self pubbed The Mill River Recluse last year and it sold so well it made the NYT and USA Today best seller lists. I clipped an article about her in the Wall Street Journal last December and checked...

And I like it a lot. In fact, they are stealing one of my ideas by adding color to the market data section. The charts of the market indexes are now on a blue background with red markers for down days and green markers for up days. Newspapers don't carry stock tables anymore, those columns of...

Don't read what you don't enjoy, and don't let book snobs tell you what you should enjoy. Danielle Steel, Dean Koontz and James Patterson will be boring classics in 500 years anyway, so you are reading the classics, you're just doing it in advance.

Finally finished Hornet's Nest. My favorite of the trilogy is Played With Fire, I pretty much read the whole thing in one sitting. It's satisfying that he wrapped it up neatly at the end of the third book, but is there a fourth manuscript out there on the hard drive of his old laptop? His...

Back in the mid-90's when everybody was signing up for AOL there was a commercial on television where a stodgy college professor was lecturing his class and telling them that it was nearly impossible to get your writing published. Then a young, vibrant student in the back of the class stands up...

It's apparently a celebration where people known as 'givers' pass out free books to adults on April 23. The givers receive 30 free books from the WBN organization and distribute them according the guidelines. It began last year in the UK and will be observed in the US this year. I had never...

Great picture of Papa there! Since he was a friend to cats I wondered if it ever troubled him when he killed big cats on his safari trips to Africa.

Great googly moogly!! Two books per week? How do you find time to watch MTV?

CNN interview with JP and how he cranks out so many books: James Patterson: The world's busiest best-selling writer - CNN.com

More lamentations: Lamenting the loss of a print icon - CNN.com

Back when CDs first came out for music, circa 1983, I predicted that they would soon be replaced with an electronic chip that would be plugged into a music player. My line of thinking was that the moving parts of a CD player would soon become obsolete. So I didn't exactly see the Ipod, but I...

Remember Grolier's encycolpedia? It came out on CD back in the 90's. I just tried their website, it requires a log in just to view it. I thought about registering with the username "piss off" but I think I'll just get ready for bed. What are your encyclopedia memories? Back in the 7th grade...

Start writing the eulogies? You can finish it now. Encyclopaedia Britannica ends its print run | The Upshot - Yahoo! News

Didn't watch your videi of famouspeople with nbipolar. Do you haveone of famous people with celiac? Oh,wait, how about famous peopel who have adopeted African orfans? Or haow about adhd, or is that out of vogue now?

Just finished Pushing to Front by Orison Swett Marden. This book was first published in 1894 and that's part of what makes in so unique when compared to the self improvement books of today. For example, in a section on personal hygiene, he reccomends that young men wash their hair with scalp...

All they have to do is tighten the cable and re-do the experiment. They don't even need to do it 15,000 times again, a few dozen should suffice. The portion of Einstein's theory that says nothing can travel faster than the speed of light will be proven wrong someday. I've always been afraid...

Did somebody really offer US News & World Report as an alternative for PBS viewers?

BWAHAAHA! do frogs have fangs?