Zombie history

To anyone who has not heard of or read it, I highly recommend Max Brooks’ World War Z. It’s speculative fiction, with Brooks chronicling an imaginary Zombie Apocalypse, and how humanity would respond. Even if you aren’t a fan of “zombie fiction,” which is generally used to tell horror stories, this book is [...]

Reading 2.0

I’ve now gone into the digital reading realm full steam by downloading some books on my iPhone. Not just browsing electronic reference material and manuals, but actually reading actual books.

My experience with Dashiell Hammett was a good one, as I read his influential detective novel Red Harvest in the fantastic Stanza app on my [...]

Modern Warfare

A few months ago, I finished up Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden’s 1999 account of the disastrous battle that brought about the end of the UN’s 1993 intervention in Somalia. It’s a fascinating in-depth look at modern warfare, both with respect to the men involved in operations on the ground (American and Somalian) and [...]