I am may be one of the only people in the United States who was disappointed with DaVinci Code but Loved Angels and Demons, both books by Dan Brown. I just recently [...]

Lonely Planet has a fun book called Signspotting which features funny signs like: They have a gallery of some of the signs.

Even before the MacGyver ad during the Super bowl was this project: “What Would MacGyver Do? is a book-in-progress. When it is finished, it will be a collection of 75 to 100 [...]

Dave Barry has a new book out called Dave Barry’s Money Secrets. I am told it is a funny book about high finance, like how much allowance to give your kid. Dave [...]

Mousetrips has an interesting story about what might have been in Disney-land. This has been one of those urban legends that has been circulating around the Web for years now. About how [...]

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell – Historical fiction set at the time of Alfred the Great (before he was great) in England when the vikings invaded and threatened to conquer all [...]

I finished “Legion of the Damned ” by William C. Dietz recently. This is a science fictionl about cyborgs and the French Foreign Legion in space. No seriously. It is a fun [...]

From my Summer reading comes Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove, one of my favorite authors. Turtledove tends to write alternate history books. The plot of this book revolves around the question “what [...]

Imagine you are the leading on-line distributor of books and that there is a widely popular book set to launch this week. You want to make sure people get their copy promptly… [...]

No, not the new movie but the original book is part of the Project Gutenberg library. You can download the book for free.