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About End of Days: Lydia Lozen Magruder—the great-granddaughter of a female Apache war-shaman—has seen visions of the End since childhood. She has constructed a massive ranch-fortress in the American Southwest, stocked with everything necessary to rebuild civilization.
Now her visions are coming true. John Stone, once a baseball star and now a famous gonzo journalist, stumbled across a plan to blast humanity back to the stone age. Then he vanished. Lydia’s only hope of tracking him down lies with her stubborn, globe-trotting daughter, Kate, Stone’s former lover.
Kate is about to step right into the plotters’ crosshairs. Stone has been captured by a pair of twin Middle Eastern princesses, hell-bent on torturing him until he reveals all he knows.
Meanwhile, a Russian general obsessed with nuclear Armageddon has also disappeared…as have eight or more of his Russian subs, armed with nuclear-tipped missiles.
The world is armed for self-destruction.
Who will survive?
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Posted on Jun 16th, 2011 by torforge in Forge Books, Robert Gleason, Sweepstakes, end of days, thrillers
When I was in Connecticut over the weekend, my niece Katie was surprised that I had never heard of the website Sporcle. It offers trivia quizzes and games on a wide range of topics: Famous Faces Upside Down and First and Last Letters: Movies were a couple featured today. For high schoolers, it’s a way to kill some time — while a teacher or parent is haranguing you, I imagine.
The PWxyz blog from Publishers Weekly noted that Sporcle has a number of quizzes on Literature, including one on classic opening lines.
So when you get some time, have at it. (Once you click "start," you don’t have to answer the questions in order. Just type a title into the colored box, and Sporcle will automatically place it in the correct spot.) I’ve provided a visual hint to get you started.
Posted on Jun 15th, 2011 by Dave Rosenthal in Uncategorized
One of the greatest classic cocktail books
Many, many, authors have had the repuation of being a complete lush. Kingsley Amis nearly made a career out of the persuit of drinking and Bukouski made a career out of what happens after you’ve been drinking. This Flavorwire feature has some great quotes like Dorothy Parker:
I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most
Three and I’m under the table
Four and I’m under the host.
Also check out our feature on Books About Drink
Posted on Jun 14th, 2011 by slaming in AbeBooks, lists
The Independent has Booker Prize-winner Aravind Adiga writing about Mumbai. Adiga has a new novel coming out, Last Man in Tower.
I first saw the city in 1985 with my mother. We were the guests of my grand-uncle Suresh, a lawyer who lived in Bandra. Many in my family had migrated from Mangalore to practise law in Bangalore or Madras. Suresh, a feisty, affectionate, beak-nosed man, was the only one who had chosen Mumbai – a far-away, Hindi-speaking place where south Indians were reportedly attacked by the right-wing movement Shiv Sena. He drove us up to see the Queen’s Necklace seafront; I had paani puris near the Gateway of India, and puked them into the ocean. And though 18 years passed before I came back, Mumbai always found ingenious ways to remind me of its existence.
Posted on Jun 10th, 2011 by Richard Davies in author, reading, travel
This weekend the Bilderberg Group is meeting at Suvretta House, a luxurious hotel in the chic Swiss resort of St. Moritz, and the invitation-only gathering of corporate execs and government officials always sparks conspiracy claims. The group got a lot of attention last fall, when Fidel Castro published an article in a Communist Party newspaper and quoted from "The Secrets of the Bilderburg Club" by Daniel Estulin.
The 2006 book posits that a secret group of politicians and business leaders runs the world, advancing its agenda at an annual conference. Castro said the book described "sinister cliques and the Bilderberg lobbyists" manipulating the public "to install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self."
I suppose the Bilderberg Group, which was founded in 1954 at the Hotel Bilderberg in Holland, can supply us with a few thrills while we wait for Dan Brown to knock out another book. But a hotel in St. Moritz — especially one that features Teddy’s World for kids — doesn’t seem like the place to plot world domination. Shouldn’t they be meeting in a secret underground lair?
Posted on Jun 10th, 2011 by Dave Rosenthal in Uncategorized
