book reviews

Don’t Panic: We Have the Answer . . .Just Not the Question By: Douglas Adams On a spectacular intergalactic mission merging dry sarcasm with outrageous, Monty Python-esque humor, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy combines the witty, the absurd, the imaginative, the highly improbably, the really very improbable, interstellar administration, whales, two-headed (and thus two-faced) galactic presidents, shaky futuristic science, and depressed robots. What’s not to love? It all begins the way most disasters do – with some red tape. Earth man Arthur Dent, unwitting friend to an alien pretending to be a failed actor, is trying to stop some [...]

A Moody Collection of Vintage Stephen King By: Stephen King Plowing into a second one hundred hour work week with a torturous interstate drive into the most difficult-to-navigate portion of Virginia, I had no chance to run to the library for emergency audio books. Fortunately, a long ago trip to an atmospheric, albeit tightly crammed bookstore, had armed me with one emergency audio book, purchased because although it looked like it had been through several wars and possibly a few fires, it was under a dollar and it held stories from my beloved Stephen King. In a state of booklessness, [...]