Jul
20
2008
Bonk by Mary Roach
- Publisher: W. W. Norton
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 288
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- №51
I picked up Bonk entirely on a whim: it was sitting precociously on the shelf of new books at the library. It wasn’t until later,…
Mar
10
2008
New York’s Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer, is in trouble after getting caught soliciting a prostitute. Oops. A shame, that: I liked the man’s work.
Aug
30
2007
The High-Tech Knight by Leo Frankowski
- Publisher: Del Rey
- Year: 1989
- Pages: 247
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- №38
It may be of interest to you to read my review of the first book, The Cross-Time Engineer
The High-Tech Knight picks up seamlessly where…
Jul
11
2007
Love and Other Near-Death Experiences by Mil Millington
- Publisher: Villard
- Year: 2006
- Pages: 368
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- №29
I don’t recall how I stumbled upon Millington’s book—some oblique link on Amazon, no doubt—but he seemed of the trendy sort of…
Apr
23
2007
From Stirling McLaughlin comes this laughable piece of prudish propaganda.

Yes, I understand that they’re trying to deal with a serious issue in a “hip” way, but did you notice that there was no mention at all about “safe” sex, or any…