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Book Review: Need to Know – UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence by Timothy Good
Timothy Good follows up Above Top Secret with another classic study of the UFO phenomenon.
Read More »Book Review: Karnak Café by Naguib Mahfouz
With a novella, Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz takes readers inside Egyptian culture and politics in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Read More »Book Review: Poe, edited by Ellen Datlow (stories inspired by Edgar Allan Poe)
Works of mystery and imagination that not only do justice to the author they celebrate, but are fine stories in their own right.
Read More »Book Review: St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley
An odd little book, mostly an architectural history, but with some great snippets of social anecdote about one of the great train stations of Europe.
Read More »Book Review: The Enchantress Of Florence by Salman Rushdie
A historical fantasy that's both a pleasure to read and an education in its recreation of two of history's most fascinating cities.
Read More »Manga Review: Dragon Ball Z – Volume One by Akira Toriyama (VizBig Edition)
A hefty paperback omnibus collects three volumes of this classic All Ages fight manga.
Read More »Book Review: Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 By Bruce Frasier and Jeff Schewe
An absolutely, positively, must-own.
Read More »My Favourite Reads Of 2008
A simple test: which books would I be most inclined to re-read?
Read More »The Best Books of 2008 (and Some Less than First-Rate)
Wanting to include the best book he read in 2008, Blogcritic Tim Gebhart's 2008 "best of" list goes a bit beyond 2008.
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