Category: writing / books

  • Book Review: The Colorado Kid, by Stephen King

    Casual fans of Stephen King might have missed this book. It came out in 2005 as a little paperback published by Hard Case Crime – a small publisher of pulp mystery novels. I didn’t know it existed until recently. This is a tiny little story. The entire tale unfolds as a single conversation taking place…

  • So It Goes

    Aw shit, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died. Celebrity deaths don’t affect me often, but there is something different about authors. My heart skipped a few beats when I heard this. I think many people have a very real and very intimate connection with authors. Stephen King once wrote that writing is like telepathy, and in a…

  • Book Review: The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

    I’ll try not to write much here, since this book has already been written about way too much. Briefly, my opinion is that this book doesn’t break a whole lot of new ground, but it puts some common arguments for atheism in popular language and is an enjoyable read. For the most part, it’s well-argued…