FireBlade Coffeehouse: The 17 Best Books I’ve Reviewed

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A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller, Jr.	Reviewed 6/18/2001	Purchase
A Canticle for Leibowitz	“Canticle” is unquestionably the best story of mankind’s demise since revelation itself. Miller traverses a thousand years beyond the apocalypse, the “Flame Deluge”, as seen through the eyes of a small order of monks in the southwest desert of the United States. More...
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Reviewed 9/8/2002	Purchase
To Kill a Mockingbird	I don’t think you can fully enjoy any Southern civil rights work without having read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” All such works are written in the shadow of Harper Lee. More...
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings	J.R.R. Tolkien	Reviewed 5/23/2001	Purchase
The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings	The best fantasy books I have ever read. “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit...” I found the animated movie to be marvelous as well. More...
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub	Stanislaw Lem	Reviewed 7/5/2001	Purchase
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub	Hidden beneath the Rocky Mountains, a long-lost civilization worthy of anything from Edgar Rice Burroughs toils in its paranoid mission to fight the communist anti-building. More...
Animal Farm	George Orwell	Reviewed 7/8/2001	Purchase
Animal Farm	Animal Farm is billed as “a provocative novel”, but that just underestimates our ability to be completely blind when faced with uncomfortable ideas. More...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Hunter S. Thompson	Reviewed 6/16/2001	Purchase
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	Perhaps the purest of Thompson’s searches for the American Dream because it is untainted by politics; or perhaps the most pointless for the same reason, and politics have tainted the American Dream since the Adams anti-sedition acts almost as soon as the country was born. More...
Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons	John Karrer	Reviewed 7/11/2001	Purchase
Idiots, Imbeciles, and Morons	A unique story about a man on the verge of a nervous breakdown--working in a day home for the developmentally challenged. More...
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do	Peter McWilliams	Reviewed 7/7/2001	Purchase
Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do	Peter McWilliams died in defense of freedom: this book, an incredibly well-written and well-researched book about “the absurdity of consensual crimes in a free society” was probably his death warrant. More...
Peter Pan	J. M. Barrie	Reviewed 7/2/2001	Purchase
Peter Pan	Of all of the famous children’s stories coming from British authors in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, “Peter Pan” is the most clearly aimed at adults More...
The Futurological Congress	Stanislaw Lem	Reviewed 7/3/2001	Purchase
The Futurological Congress	Stanislaw Lem is a brilliant author, and “The Futurological Congress” is perhaps his most prophetic work. More...
The Cyberiad	Stanislaw Lem	Reviewed 7/4/2001	Purchase
The Cyberiad	Two great geniuses, Trurl and Klapaucius, enjoy a friendly rivalry, each attempting to best the other in skill and invention. More...
The Cartoon History of the Universe	Larry Gonick	Reviewed 5/27/2001	Purchase
The Cartoon History of the Universe	Do not pass up these books. The most fun I’ve ever had reading history. Larry Gonick has an eye for the absurd from the beginning of time. But don’t let the funny pictures fool you: this is a real history book. More...
Never Come Morning	Nelson Algren	Reviewed 6/20/2001	Purchase
Never Come Morning	Nelson Algren goes beyond being a story about Chicago corruption. This is a story of the corruption of the soul of the poorest poor in the land where, when opportunity knocks, you spit out your teeth and a stream of blood follows. More...
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	Reviewed 7/17/2001	Purchase
Of Mice and Men	From time to time you still hear talk of the coming of the “Great American Novel”. If there has ever been a great American writer, in my mind Steinbeck is it, and if he is, the great Novel with a capital N is “Of Mice and Men”. More...
M. Butterfly	David Henry Wang	Reviewed 7/11/2001	Purchase
M. Butterfly	Perhaps the best social satire play I’ve read since “The Importance of Being Earnest,” “M. Butterfly” has a lot to say about race and gender in a very small space. More...
Possession: A Romance	A. S. Byatt	Reviewed 7/30/2001	Purchase
Possession: A Romance	Jumping between nineteenth century poets and the twentieth century scholars studying those poets, this is a richly detailed romance and mystery. More...
The Abolitionists	Merton L. Dillon	Reviewed 9/2/2002	Purchase
The Abolitionists	This is a fascinating look at how a tiny minority came to affect the course of a nation. The abolitionist movement was vocal, idealistic, principled, and their arguments irrefutable. But ultimately, nobody cared. More...

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