I really wanted to like this book - it has all the elements of something I'd love - true crime/trashy semi-celebrity story/good author. I've read a lot of Walter Kirn's magazine writing in the past and liked it. But something about this book didn't quite get there for me. It felt like a magazi...
Mission to America tells the story of two young men raised in an obscure, isolated Montana religious sect and what happens when they leave their cloistered world to recruit new blood for their unhealthily inbred clan. I liked this book, though not for reasons I would have expected. Many of the r...
Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe ...
I really liked it. It was almost more of a series of vignettes than a novel, but it flowed nicely and was in chronological order.Justin is very likable as a main character, even though he is a jerk sometimes. And, ultimately the book is full of funny descriptions and back-hand comments like: "At...
Before AidSat I had no self, no soul. I was a billing address. A credit score. I had a TV, a computer, a phone, a car, an apartment, some furniture, and a health-club locker. Then AidSat hired me and gave me a life. And not just one life. Hundreds of them, thousands.Kent Selkirk is an operator at...
By July, I stopped heeding the shrill tornado sirens and couldn’t be bothered to slap the fat mosquitoes drilling my neck behind my ears. There were pickles and mayonnaise on every sandwich, a dying wasp in every cup of Kool-Aid. I built a model rocket. It failed in flight. I sent away for a slin...