Former Alaskan Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s autobiography, Going Rogue: An American Life, hit stores this week. I haven’t read it. Very few people have so far. But that hasn’t stopped a whole lot of people from forming an opinion. In terms of content, this probably is going to be just another politician’s self-serving autobiography. But in terms of reaction, this is something different altogether. Pre-orders were so strong that Going Rogue has been on top of the major best seller lists for weeks. Thousands, literally thousands, of people sat outside a bookstore in...

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I love the TV show House. Hugh Laurie is a big part of the reasons that I tune in every week to watch the exploits of the irascible Dr. House and his compatriots.  I also love to read detective stories, from Sherlock Holmes to Dirk Gently.  And as I've shared before, I do have an affinity for goofy books by British authors.  Combine the three, and you'll see why I absolutely loved The Gun Seller. I found it quite by accident, trolling the local yard sales with my family.  As I had no idea that Hugh Laurie...

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I just finished reading Michael Crichton’s Next. Unlike many of his previous novels, Next is not ready-made for a movie. In fact, it was a somewhat jarring reading experience in that the main character is… indiscernible. There are so many characters and settings flopping around, it is difficult to latch on to any. Truly, several times I found myself flipping backwards to remind myself who a character was. The ‘villain’, in as much as there is one, disappears for over a hundred pages before reasserting himself into the story. Oddly enough, he was one of the...

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