Posts Tagged ‘Knopf’

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    Book Review: Vanilla Ride by Joe Lansdale
    Title: Vanilla Ride Author: Joe R. Lansdale Cover Artist: Chip Kidd Binding: Hardcover Publisher: Knopf Publication Date: June 30, 2009 I gotta say, it feels damn good to be hanging out with Hap Collins and Leonard Pine again. Not to bore the holy fuck out of your ass right off the bat, but the Hap and Leonard books were a major part of my nerdy-ass formative years....
    by NerdOfNoir at August 3rd, 2009 at 07:08 am
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    The Electric Mayhem: Richie Dagger’s Crime
    Vanilla Ride by Joe Lansdale The Hap & Leonard books are the buddy films of the crime fiction genre with everything good, bad and ugly that the form entails. The surface of the un-PC banter of these characters will no doubt provoke a few upturned noses but below the surface the dynamics are much more complicated then that. Fans of the series will already know...
    by Brian at June 25th, 2009 at 03:06 pm
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    Jan-Ken-Pon: Tomio’s Want List – Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro
    The guy is probably my favorite writer on the planet. Most recently we’ve been talking the film adaptation of his fantastic Never Let Me Go at BSC. Today, I ran across this book trailer for Nocturnes, a collection by Ishiguro coming out this month.           I have no specific reason that draw me to this title particularly....
    by Jay Tomio at May 27th, 2009 at 08:05 am
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    Book Review – Tender Morsels
    Author: Margo Lanagan Cover Artist: Jodi Hewgill Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: October 2008 Readers who miss the days of reading fairy tales should really enjoy this book.  Readers who still enjoy the retellings of fairy tales by authors such as Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow, and Angela Carter will enjoy this book even more. Tender Morsels is a...
    by dragonwomant at March 9th, 2009 at 02:03 am
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    The Electric Mayhem: Ghost Wiring
         The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston      I remember reading Every Last Drop not that long ago and being unable to escape the feeling that the real Charlie Huston had been kidnapped and was being held by a guy in an abandoned warehouse somewhere. Well, I’m happy to report that, after reading...
    by Brian at February 1st, 2009 at 08:02 pm
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    Book Review – Once Upon a Time in the North
    Author: Philip Pullman Cover Artist: John Lawrence Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: April 2008 This is not a children’s story. Marketed as a companion piece to HDM, this short piece is rife with sophisticated themes and adult language, along with an elegant sarcasm that operates well from an adult perspective. No prior experience with the author’s...
    by Medora at July 2nd, 2008 at 09:07 am
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    Book Review – Lyra’s Oxford
    Author: Philip Pullman Cover Artist: John Lawrence Publisher: Knopf Binding: Paperback Publication Date: October 2003 As a short story companion to the author’s His Dark Materials trilogy, this attractive volume offers a diverting look at Lyra two years after the events in The Amber Spyglass. The majority of the book is devoted to the telling of Lyra and the Birds,...
    by Medora at July 2nd, 2008 at 09:07 am
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    Book Review – Bangkok Haunts
    Author: John Burdett Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: June 2007 Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep reflects the mysticism and apparent contradiction of Thailand that those of us of ‘Western’ origin just cannot understand. Yet he stands somewhat apart from Thai society as a half-caste who spent a significant time abroad while growing up. Firmly rooted...
    by Neth at July 2nd, 2007 at 02:07 am
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    Book Review – Cast of Shadows
    Author: Kevin Guilfoile Publisher: Knopf Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2005 Cast of Shadows begins with every parent’s worst nightmare, when Davis Moore’s teenage daughter is brutally raped and murdered by an unknown assailant. It gets worse. For Davis Moore is a fertility doctor, dealing with cutting-edge genetic reproductive techniques. It’s a controversial...
    by Brian at April 15th, 2007 at 09:04 am
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    Contest – win Peter Spiegelman’s Red Cat
    Mystery Book Spot is pleased to announce a new contest. Peter Spiegelman’s Red Cat. Here is my review. What is Red Cat about? With a troubled past, and a job that attracts too much attention from the law, March has always been the black sheep of his staid merchant-banking family. Which makes the identity of his latest client all the more surprising: his smug older...
    by Brian at March 14th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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    Book Review – Red Cat
    Author: Peter Spiegelman Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: February 2007 John March is the black sheep of a powerful banking family. One of his brothers comes to him seeking his help. He had an affair with a woman who is now making trouble for him, stalking him and is threatening to out the affair. He wants John to find out who she is and make her...
    by Brian at February 12th, 2007 at 08:02 am
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    Book Review – The Golden Compass
    Author: Philip Pullman Cover Artist: Ericka Meltzer O’Rourke Publisher: Knopf Binding: Paperback Publication Date: September 2002 Lyra is a young orphan girl, raised by the masters of Jordan College at Oxford, knowing little of the outside world and caring for little beyond her carefree existence playing with the other children. The story opens with Lyra’s...
    by Justin at September 20th, 2006 at 11:09 am
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    Book Review – Eldest
    Author: Christopher Paolini Publisher: Knopf Binding: Hardcover Publication Date: August 2005 Ever since Eragon grew in popularity, Christopher Paolini has been claimed as a young marvel, an adventurous boy writing about a boy and an adventure, and doing so in such a way that has never been done before. I’m not quite sure what kind of medications those that proclaimed...
    by Paul at September 4th, 2005 at 09:09 am