In his acknowledgements at the end of the novel Stephen King admits to being influeced by a number of sources, including spaghetti Westerns — those Italian-made westerns of the 70s starring the likes of Clint Eastwood — as well as other hero films like The Magnificent Seven. Or was it the Magnificent Eight? I can’t…
In the afterword to this the fourth novel of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, King says that writing a love story is much more difficult than writing suspense and that he put off this story as long as he could. Well, if the task was difficult, you certainly wouldn’t know it from reading the novel….
Maybe you’ve seen this. I just saw it today and think it’s one of the best spots this year. It was directed by Guy Ritchie. Pretty amazing. Two minutes. No dialogue. Cool story arc. It even features several soccer superstars. Best of all, it gives you a sense of what it’s like to be a…
I downloaded this audiobook after a friend of mine recommended it, and everything he said about it is true. It’s a highly detailed, exhaustively researched, scathing history of the Central Intelligence Agency from its birth after the Second World War through the book’s publication in 2007. Weiner, a New York Times correspondent, bases his history…
BI-LO, our grocery store client, sponsors an event every year called The Invention Convention. Basically it’s a science fair for midlle-school kids in Greenville County, except instead of homemade magnets and volcanoes, all of the entries are original inventions. The kids are asked to think up some useful device that solves an actual problem. And…
A wonderfully imaginative Young Adult novel. Between mortality and the afterlife is a place called Everlost, a dumping ground for children who get tripped up while traveling toward the “light at the end of the tunnel” following death. The novel begins with a fatal car crash. Two young teenagers, one from each car, die in…
