Doug's Library -- Other Recent Reviews

Editor's Note: This is a listing of book reviews in reverse chronological order back to October 1, 1996. I created this page for those of you who use this page but don't visit very frequently. This way, it is easy to see what reviews are new here since your last visit. Hope you find it useful.

Recently Reviewed:

• "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear
• "Survivor" by Mark Burnett
• "Why Not Me?" by Al Franken
• "The Little Country" by Charles deLint
• "The Street Lawyer" by John Grisham
• "The First Immortal" by James Halperin
• "The Wasp Factory" by Iain Banks
• "The Death of Common Sense" by Philip Howard
• "Out of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa" by Keith Richburg
• "Timeline" by Michael Crichton
• "Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary" by Roger Ebert
• "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham
• "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula K. LeGuin
• "Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said" by Philip K. Dick
• "Eat the Rich" by P. J. O'Rourke
• "Science in Public: Communication, Culture and Credibility" by Jane Gregory (and Steve Miller)
• "Trail Fever" by Michael Lewis
• "Beowulf's Children" by Larry Niven (and Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes)
• "The Commanders" by Bob Woodward
• "The People vs. Big Tobacco" by Carrick Mollenkamp (and 3 others)
• "Red Mafiya" by Robert Friedman
• "Not Exactly the Three Musketeers" by Joel Rosenberg
• "Homebody" by Orson Scott Card
• "Once Upon a Number" by John Allen Paulos
• "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie" by Roger Ebert
• "The Naked Sun" by Isaac Asimov
• "Rock This!" by Chris Rock
• "The Caves of Steel" by Isaac Asimov
• "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
• "Bully for Brontosaurus" by Stephen Jay Gould
• "Dumb Money" by Joey Anuff (and Gary Wolf)
• "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
• "Why People Believe Weird Things" by Michael Shermer
• "Generation X Goes to College" by Peter Sacks
• "Fool's Run" by Patricia McKillip
• "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" by Burton Malkiel
• "Toxic Sludge is Good for You!" by John Stauber (and Sheldon Rampton)
• "Ranting Again" by Dennis Miller
• "The War for Eternity" by Christopher Rowley
• "Angle of Repose" by Wallace Stegner
• "The Anubis Gates" by Tim Powers
• "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond
• "The Descent" by Jeff Long
• Series: "The New Uplift Trilogy" by David Brin
• "Polaroids from the Dead" by Douglas Coupland
• Series: "Worldwar" by Harry Turtledove
• "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr
• "Pure Baseball" by Keith Hernandez (and Mike Bryan)
• "A Call for Revolution" by Martin Gross
• Series: "Star Wars: The Black Fleet Crisis" by Michael Kube-McDowell
• "Star Wars: The Phantom Menace" by Terry Brooks
• "Is The Temperature Rising?" by S. George Philander
• Series: "Homecoming" by Orson Scott Card
• "You're Out, and You're Ugly, Too!" by Durwood Merrill
• "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett
• "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle" by John Barrow and Frank Tipler
• "Fortress in the Eye of Time" by C. J. Cherryh
• "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson
• "The Truth Machine" by James Halperin
• "Media Circus" by Howard Kurtz
• "Series: The Sword-Dancer Trilogy" by Jennifer Roberson
• "Into the Out Of" by Alan Dean Foster
• "One L" by Scott Turow
• "Dragon" by Steven Brust
• "Series: The Tale of Krispos" by Harry Turtledove
• "The Rise of Endymion" by Dan Simmons
• "Acquired Tastes" by Peter Mayle
• "Toujours Provence" by Peter Mayle
• "The Coldfire Trilogy" by C. S. Friedman
• "Glory Season" by David Brin
• "A Year in Provence" by Peter Mayle
• "Breaking the News" by James Fallows
• "The Giants Trilogy" by James Hogan
• "Hot Air" by Howard Kurtz
• "Cyteen" by C. J. Cherryh
• "Big Babies" by Michael Kinsley
• "Einstein's Biggest Blunder?" by Donald Goldsmith
• "UFO's: A Scientific Debate" edited by Carl Sagan (with Thornton Page)
• "Year One" by Robert Reid
• "The Galactic Milieu Trilogy" by Julian May
• "A Plague of Demons" by Keith Laumer
• "Myst: The Book of D'Ni" by Rand Miller (with David Wingrove)
• "Executive Orders" by Tom Clancy
• "Virtually Normal" by Andrew Sullivan
• "Airframe" by Michael Crichton
• "Freedom and Necessity" by Steven Brust
• Series: "X-Wing" by Michael Stackpole
• "Man Bites Town" by Harry Shearer
• "Permutation City" by Greg Egan
• "Boiling Point" by Kevin Phillips
• "The Man in the High Castle" by Philip K. Dick
• "The Gap Series" by Stephen Donaldson
• "What if the Moon Didn't Exist?" by Neil Comins
• "Creatures of Light and Darkness" by Roger Zelazny
• "Exploring Space" by William Burrows
• "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton
• "Children of the Mind" by Orson Scott Card
• "Downward to the Earth" by Robert Silverberg
• "The Corellian Trilogy" by Roger MacBride Allen
• "Does Anybody Have a Problem With That?" by Bill Maher
• "The Web Between the Worlds" by Charles Sheffield
• "Object Lessons" by Anna Quindlen
• "Science a la Mode" by Tony Rothman
• "Swan Song" by Robert McCammon
• "The Turing Option" by Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky
• "Microserfs" by Douglas Coupland
• "Raising the Stones" by Sheri Tepper
• "The Rants" by Dennis Miller
• "The Lost World" by Michael Crichton
• "Notes from a Small Island" by Bill Bryson
• "Sheltered Lives" by Charles Oberndorf
• "Fires of Eden" by Dan Simmons
• "Sailing Bright Eternity" by Gregory Benford
• "It Ain't Cheatin' If You Don't Get Caught" by Dan Gutman
• "City" by Clifford Simak
• "Finder" by Emma Bull
• "Grass" by Sheri Tepper
• "Nuclear Power" by Walter Patterson
• "Artifact" by Gregory Benford
• "Babel 17" by Samuel Delaney
• "Insomnia" by Stephen King
• "The Toughest Job in Baseball" by Peter Pascarelli
• "Myst: The Book of T'iana" by Rand Miller and David Wingrove
• "Children of the Jedi" by Barbara Hambly
• "Beggars and Choosers" by Nancy Kress
• "We're Right, They're Wrong!" by James Carville
• "The New Republic Reader" edited by Dorothy Wickenden
• "Beggars in Spain" by Nancy Kress
• "Endymion" by Dan Simmons
• "The Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan
• "Use of Weapons" by Iain Banks
• "Five Patients" by Michael Crichton
• "Doorways in the Sand" by Roger Zelazny
• "Men at Work" by George Will
• "Into the Deep" by Ken Grimwood
• "The Dragons of Eden" by Carl Sagan
• "Dragon's Egg" by Robert Forward
• "My Point...and I Do Have One..." by Ellen DeGeneres
• "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" by Al Franken
• "The Lions of Al-Rassan" by Guy Gavriel Kay