cialis bestellen cialis pharmacie paris venta de sildenafil comprar cialis barato kamagra in berlin kaufen test viagra rezeptfrei kamagra deutschland pastillas sildenafil vendo sildenafil viagra au quebec viagra generico comprar viagra natural receta nombre viagra cialis generika apotheke cialis en espagne sildenafil 50 mg venta levitra similar viagra sofort vardenafil 20mg cialis a vendre viagra ohne rezept legal vendo viagra viña del mar viagra venta a domicilio vardenafil generico en mexico viagra barcelona cialis precio farmacia viagra generica en españa levitra 10 mg precio la viagra precio de cialis tadalafil comprimidos precio viagra 100 mg viagra 100mg ohne rezept viagra se vende en farmacias pfizer viagra españa viagra rezeptfrei seriös cialis kaufen viagra türkei rezeptfrei cialis ca marche sildenafil bogota kamagra oral jelly berlin venta de cialis generic sildenafil viagra marcas cialis genericos venta viagra contrareembolso viagra rezeptpflichtig cialis levitra comparison potenzmittel cialis kaufen vrai viagra comprar viagra sin receta madrid comprar cialis en andorra pastillas levitra medicamento cialis levitra generika viagra sin receta viagra venta libre kamagra jelly kaufen sildenafil sirve para mujeres comprar cialis en sevilla similar viagra kamagra sicher bestellen costo sildenafil precio cialis generico levitra bayer precio viagras sin recetas comprar cialis en españa venta viagra generico kamagra soft vente viagra farmacias viagra sin receta precio de sildenafil vardenafilo levitra vardenafil hci online apotheke viagra deutschland viagra nombre cientifico viagra kostenlos cialis compra receta viagra casera viagra rezept venta levitra sildenafil pfizer billig kamagra levitra sin receta medica precio levitra farmacia sildenafil venezuela foro sildenafil comprar viagra kamagra oral jelly wo kaufen kamagra oral jelly apotheke sildenafil medicamento vente viagra canada cialis online bestellen levitra sur le net comprar viagra barato cialis generico venta cialis comprimidos cialis indicaciones kamagra andorra levitra generika preisvergleich levitra moins cher comprar viagra sin receta viagra 50 sildenafil en las mujeres viagra foro kamagra sobres viagra 50mg ohne rezept super kamagra kaufen rezeptfreie potenzmittel comprar levitra en andorra sildenafil en la mujer viagra se vende con receta cialis 5 precio cialis generica kamagra 100 mg kamagra oral jelly per nachnahme levitra contrareembolso cialis 5 mg 28 comprimidos precio viagra bestellen billig potenzmittel kamagra comprar levitra por internet cialis rezeptfrei niederlande comprar cialis en madrid viagra precios cialis comprar madrid receta viagra natural magnus sildenafil 50 mg cialis le vrai viagra oferta cialis mas barato vardenafil generique kamagra gel kaufen viagra nur mit rezept viagra fur frauen achat viagra luxembourg foro levitra viagra compra online comprar viagra sevilla comprar viagra original billig viagra bestellen comprar levitra españa compra levitra cialis aus indien viagra por correo cialis necesita receta comprar cialis contrareembolso vendo viagra santiago viagra rezeptfrei deutschland sildenafil o similares viagra a contrareembolso andorra viagra sin receta cialis in holland cialis se vende con receta disfuncion erectil pastillas kamagra tabletten acheter viagra quebec cialis generico precio cialis kaufen rezeptfrei viagra precio ecuador comprar cialis original viagra 100mg viagra a vendre cialis no me funciona viagra original ohne rezept viagra generico madrid levitra farmacias del ahorro precio levitra 20 mg sildenafil vendo viagra en tunisie precio viagra argentina comprar viagra en internet viagra rezeptfrei paypal levitra medicamento tadalafil genericos viagra veritable cialis requiere receta comprar viagra fiable viagra venta viagra medicamento magnus viagra viagra rezeptfrei erfahrungen viagra farmacia ahumada comprar levitra 10 mg levitra en suisse cialis farmacias cialis generika deutschland precio viagra generico sildenafil similar venta sildenafil cialis holland rezeptfrei sildenafil frauen sildenafil efecto en mujeres foro tadalafil generico tadalafil viagra rezeptfrei online kamagra kautabletten test cialis generika indien rezept viagra precios viagra cialis comprar online kamagra billig kaufen comprar viagra con seguridad tadalafil diario levitra tabletas cialis en ligne sildenafil mexico billig viagra precio viagra en españa marcas sildenafil levitra pas cher viagra farmacias cialis generico andorra comprar viagra por internet precio viagra similares viagra genericos kamagra billiger viagra comprar españa levitra receta medica cialis generika erfahrungen cialis foro generika levitra remboursement levitra comprar levitra original cialis precios potenzmittel cialis generika precio tadalafil precio cialis 5 mg kamagra billig comprar viagra natural viagra droga generica vendo viagra contrareembolso cialis generika kaufen rezeptfrei bestellen viagra en ligne levitra generica viagras genericos viagra rezeptfrei billig original cialis cialis generico paypal precio viagra andorra comprar viagra de marca comprar cialis barcelona comprar cialis 20 mg viagra 100 mg pfizer super kamagra billig preis kamagra pfizer viagra precio cialis generico en peru viagra donde comprar kamagra österreich pastillas cialis comprar sildenafil sin receta generika kamagra viagra de pfizer pastilla cialis sildenafil venta vrai cialis venta cialis barcelona medicament viagra precio viagra farmacia precio cialis andorra viagra billig online kaufen compra cialis españa cialis se vende sin receta cialis maroc viagra natural barcelona sildenafil para mujeres comprar viagra mar del plata viagra remboursement cialis ventajas preisvergleich kamagra kamagra online compra cialis generico viagra mit rezept kamagra oral jelly billig cialis precio oficial pastilla viagra cialis ohne rezept kaufen viagra rezeptfrei rechnung vardenafil en mexico vendo viagra barcelona viagra generica precio levitra generico cialis generika ohne rezept oferta viagra cialis rezeptfrei in deutschland kaufen cialis tadalafil lilly cialis similares disfuncion erectil cura cialis generico foro vendo viagra madrid viagra cialis levitra comparison levitra pastilla viagra farmacia andorra potenzhilfe viagra precio farmacia levitra medicament sildenafil comprimidos foro viagra natural acheter viagra en ligne forum forum viagra en ligne kamagra online apotheke viagra autentica kamagra soft tabletten original viagra cialis generika wirkung cialis se vende en farmacias cialis andorra comprar viagra feminino viagra similar kamagra online kaufen levitra generique viagra nombre generico cialis in deutschland kaufen viagra rezept bekommen cialis diario precio firmel sildenafil cialis espana venta cialis online cialis niederlande cialis original livraison rapide viagra im internet kaufen levitra ordonnance precio sildenafil erektionsstorung viagra verpackung tadalafil foro cialis seriös kaufen kamagra kaufen deutschland viagra natural venta levitra generico precio ventas viagra tabletas cialis potenz steigern el viagra viagra rezeptfrei frankreich sildenafil 50 mg magnus viagra precios farmacia comprar cialis por internet cialis resultados foro kamagra precio cialis farmacia tadalafil farmacias similares achat viagra quebec potenzsteigerung pfizer viagra online eu viagra firmel levitra viagra generico foro venta viagra sin receta viagras comprar

Archive for September, 2008

Why we buy the things we buy

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Author Martin Lindstrom documents a three-year, $7 million neuromarketing study on the buying habits of 2,000 volunteers from around the world in Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy.

As part of his studies, Lindstrom asks (and presumably answers): Does sex actually sell? Despite government bans, are we still being bombarded by subliminal advertising? Can the iPod trigger our mating instincts? Is the author a little too obsessed with sex?
Writes DoubleDay at its Web site:

“How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in today’s message-cluttered world? An eye-grabbing advertisement, a catchy slogan, an infectious jingle? Martin Lindstrom answers these questions in his latest book, Buyology. Visit martinlindstrom.com for chapter-by-chapter overviews, weekly video reports, and information on neuromarketing.”

To learn more, CLICK HERE.

Insult leads to firebombing

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Scotland Yard has foiled a terrorist plot against the publisher of The Jewel of Medina, a hotly controversial book that some Muslims find offensive.

A “petrol bomb” was pushed through the door of publisher Martin Rynja’s London home. undercover police, who had been following the suspects, quickly arrested three me and the fire was put out.

The source of controversy is a scene in which Aisha, the child bride of the Prohpet Mohammed, is described in an imaginary sex scene.

Random House withdrew the book’s publication in the United States because the publisher feared a violent reaction by “a small radical segment” of Muslims. The American author of The Jewel of Medina, Sherry Jones, says she has received death threats.

Wrote the Times of London:

“Yesterday, Natasha Kern, Jones’s agent, said she was shocked to learn of the attack. She said the book had been misinterpreted by its critics and did not contain sex scenes, as had been alleged.

“ ‘I honestly believe that if people read the book they will see it is not disrespectful of Muhammad, and moderate Muslims will not be offended. I don’t want anyone to risk their lives but we could never imagine that there would be some madmen who would do something like this. I’m so sad about this act of terrorism. Moderate Muslims will suffer because of a few radicals.’ ”

To read more, CLICK HERE.

Book News: October surprise from author of Marley & Me

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Author John Grogan, who wrote Marley & Me, turns to family matters in his next book, The Longest Trip Home.

Grogan never quite fit in with his devoutly Catholic Detroit home while growing up. He struck out on his own but eventually found himself returning home, seeking a way to reconcile these seemingly incongruent lives. Readers accustomed to Marley’s mixture of humor and pathos can expect more of that, only in more human form.

To learn more, CLICK HERE.

See DelMio’s Exploration of Marley & Me, CLICK HERE.

To hear Grogan narrate from Marley, download this MP3: more_about_marley_sample

Writes publisher HarperCollins:
“The Longest Trip Home is a book for any son or daughter who has sought to forge an identity at odds with their parents’, and for every parent who has struggled to understand the values of their children. It is a book about mortality and grace, spirit and faith, and the powerful love of family. With his trademark blend of humor and pathos that made Marley & Me beloved by millions, John Grogan traces the universal journey each of us must take to find our unique place in the world.”

Not to be confused with free-range Chechens

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Even the name suggests loathsome smugness: Simon Rich. Wonder boy from Harvard. President of the Harvard Lampoon. Youngest-ever writer on Saturday Night Live (at 24). Published his first book, Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations, while a senior at Harvard. His dad is the former “Butcher of Broadway,” Frank Rich.

But he does have a redeeming quality:  He’s pretty darn good, to hear the critics talk.

Writes Very Short List: “His new collection, Free-Range Chickens, features riffs on Dracula’s Match.com profile, the inner lives of firehouse Dalmatians, and the fears and frustrations of Very Short People (which is to say, children). Most hit their marks, and even the misses are good for a chuckle or two.”

For more info, CLICK HERE.

Random House thoughtfully provided an excerpt from Free-Range Chickens. CLICK HERE.

Book news: Ambi-Dexter-ous

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Talk about conflicted.

Dexter Morgan is a Miami crime scene investigator. He also moonlights as a serial killer. In author Jeff Lindsay’s third novel featuring the Dexter character, Dexter in the Dark finds Dexter engaged and a prospective stepfather. He also finds himself being stalked.

The basis for the Showtime series Dexter, the novels seem to have established a franchise for author Lindsay, and steady work for actor Michael C. Hall (formerly of HBO’s Six Feet Under).

Jeff Lindsay is also the author of Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter. Dexter in the Dark is published by Vintage, an imprint of Random House Inc.

For more info, CLICK HERE.

75 chances to annoy a reader

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Gather.com member Chris Steib takes a look at the Esquire “Incomplete, Utterly Biased” list of books every man must read, and comes away with this impression:

I ploughed (sic) through the cover-art slideshow to find quite a few with which I agreed (see: Cormac McCarthy) and quite a few with which I disagreed (see: Steinbeck). I was most pleasantly surprised to see Martin Amis’ Time’s Arrow, a shockingly original book as told from the consciousness of a man moving backwards in time (definitely one of my personal Top 75, if not Top 20). If you’re not a reader of it, Esquire’s choices will likely surprise you as being much less “utterly biased” than they disclaim — considering such additions as Flannery O’Connor and Jim Harrison, the editors (in spite of the title of the list) went to great lengths not to make it a litany of “Books Only Our Typical Male Readers Would Appreciate.”

FYI, the 75 books list coincides with the publication’s 75th anniversary.

For more info, CLICK HERE.

See the slide show! CLICK HERE.

Book news: Robert Wagner tells his story

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Robert Wagner, over his long acting career, has had his ups and downs, including his marriage to and divorce from Natalie Wood, who later died in a tragic boating accident after they had remarried. He writes about it with co-author Scott Eyman in “Pieces of my Heart.”


He also talks about mentors such as Spencer Tracy, his relationships with Barbara Stanwyck and, of course, Natalie Wood.

Says publisher HarperCollins: “Under the mentorship of stars like Spencer Tracy, he would become a salaried actor in Hollywood’s studio system among other hot actors of the moment such as his friends Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis. Working with studio mogul Darryl Zanuck, Wagner began to appear in a number of films alongside the most beautiful starlets—but his first love was Barbara Stanwyck, an actress twice his age. As his career blossomed, and after he separated from Stanwyck, he met the woman who would change his life forever, Natalie Wood. They fell instantly and deeply in love and stayed together until the stress of their careers—hers marching upward, his inexplicably deflating—drove them to divorce.”

To see more, CLICK HERE.

Book blog: The financial collapse and who saw it coming

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

The bailout plans for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and a few other bigs, like AIG, aren’t going over so well with Congress now that the initial pangs of panic have worn off. Paulson and Bush have rushed in with a pile of money, if you consider $700 billion to be a pile of money, to save this financial behemoths from their own arrogance and screwups. Sound familiar?

This story will have the nonfiction aisles clogged with stories of recriminations. At least for those left who can afford to buy the books.

Free e-books from Tor are back

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

To mark the return of the freebie, Tor is giving away e-copies of two recent nominees for World Fantasy Award for Best Novel; the publisher sounds pretty excited:

“Will Shetterly and Emma Bull are the first married couple to each simultaneously have a novel among the finalists for the World Fantasy Award—Emma’s Territory and Will’s The Gospel of the Knife. In commemoration of this, we’re offering registered Tor.com users free e-book editions of a pair of classics from the Bull and Shetterly backlists—Emma’s War for the Oaks and Will’s Dogland. Check them out here!”

To register, CLICK HERE.

Tor: Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.

Journalist defends boy soldier’s story

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

Malcolm Knox writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that even as Cola Bilkuei told his remarkable story, Knox worried that this was another fantastic tale that wasn’t true, or at least was exaggerated. He didn’t want to become another Norma Khouri, a casualty of truth. In the wake of that and other scandals involving refugees-turned-heroes-turned-fallen-heroes, Knox finds himself examining “Cola’s Journey” and wondering if he checked out everything that could be checked out.

And the simple truth is, nobody knows for sure, not even Cola, who readily admits his memory is not perfect. He doesn’t even know when he was born.

Writes Knox: “Still, as a checker you can work with what you have. I spoke with Angelo Kuot, another Sudanese former child soldier who lives in Australia. Angelo had been part of Cola’s journey in Uganda, where they shared refuge in a Catholic mission. Kuot, a student and Australian army reservist, happily vouched for Cola.

“So what are we left with? Aside from boy soldiers, a priest and a lawyer who knew Cola in Africa, we have the assurances of the Australian government, which gave Cola his first passport and checked on him through cousins who already lived here….

“Ultimately, though, between what could be verified and what lies on the pages of Cola’s book, there will always remain a margin where we must simply take his word. Some will ask why any author’s word should be trusted. My answer is that if we take such a hard line, we will deprive ourselves of all oral history, of every story that is one person’s recollection.”

For more information, CLICK HERE.

Is there such a thing as a good thief?

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti is generating some big buzz. Tinti, the author of Animal Crackers, is fast becoming one of this decade’s brightest new writers. There might be something to the hype:

“Every once in a while — if you are very lucky — you come upon a novel so marvelous and enchanting and rare that you wish everyone in the world would read it, as well. The Good Thief is just such a book — a beautifully composed work of literary magic.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

See author Hannah Tinti talk about The Good Thief:

The Good Thief is published by The Dial Press, an imprint of Random House Inc.

To see more, CLICK HERE.

He ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog

Friday, September 19th, 2008

But Elvis the basset hound is convinced that he is the reincarnation of The King, even though in Dog Years Elvis would be 210 years old, give or take a year. Nevermind that.
Elvis figures large in Elvis and the Dearly Departed. Writes author Peggy Webb: “I love writing the Southern Cousins Mystery Series. It’s murder generously laced with comedy.”
The story: Local Doctor Leonard Laton’s corpse goes missing. Elvis leads Callie Valentine Jones and her cousin Lovie on a trail from Tupelo to Las Vegas, where, indeed, they find the dearly departed Dr. Laton in a freezer. What freezes in Vegas keeps in Vegas.

Uh-huh-huh (Click below):



Something to sink your teeth into

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Stephanie Meyer, the accidental creator of the Twilight Saga, talks about writing her third installment, Eclipse. In the Sept. 14 list of USA Today best sellers, Meyer’s books occupied four out the top five spots on the list, including her vampire series finale, Breaking Dawn.

Is is a movie promoting a book? A book promoting … ?

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Seth Greenland’s Shining City is an example of how book publishers are increasingly turning to movielike trailers to promote their books. Many trailers rely on enticing music and pretty fonts to draw in potential buyers. Greenland’s a goes a little further. After all, it’s set in Los Angeles.

To learn more, CLICK HERE.

To view the trailer, (mature audiences), CLICK HERE.

Or below:

Or, see this lovely video for Matt Beaumont’s novel Small World, which springs from a Random House contest:

If M*A*S*H were set on an Ohio college campus, sort of

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Marcus Messner is from Jersey. A studious, intense student at Ohio’s Winesburg College, he’s entering his sophomore year in 1951. He left home to escape the fear and apprehension his father holds for his boy.

Philip Roth’s Indignation is a coming-of-age story set during the Korean War, the ever-looming threat of communism and nuclear war. No doubt Roth taps his experience from that era, which makes the experience seems as fresh as yesterday.

Writes Bookbrowse: “It is a story told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command, at once a startling departure from the haunted narratives of old age and experience in his recent books and a powerful addition to his investigations of the impact of American history on the life of the vulnerable individual.”

For more information, CLICK HERE.

Check out the Amazon interview: CLICK HERE.

Buy the book. CLICK HERE.

Libel suit against Grisham dismissed

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

A libel suit against author John Grisham  and two other writers claiming
books they wrote, including Grisham’s  “The Innocent Man,” conspired to commit libel, has been thrown out by a federal judge.
The case was about the later-overturned conviction of Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz in the slaying of Debbie Sue Carter in 1982, AP reports.
Barry Scheck, founder of the Innocence Project, was a co-defendant in the suit.
The DNA evidence used to overturn the Williamson and Fritz convictions was later used to convict a key prosecution witness in their trial, Glen Gore. He is now serving life in prison.
For more information, CLICK HERE and HERE.

Everybody must get blogged

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

If it hadn’t already been established as fully mainstream it is now: Today’s Martha Stewart show featured How to Write a Blog, with instructions to go to her site, read her blog and sign up a WordPress account. Anyone can do it! Make millions!

With apologies to Bob Dylan: Everybody must get blogged.

See Martha Blog with Perez Hilton: CLICK HERE.

And see the Queen of all Media, Perez Hilton.

Apparently 9/11 wasn’t enough

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

In The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction, historian Max Page writes about a kind of cult of destruction that has hung over Gotham City since at least the 1800s, with everything from comets to Godzilla to gigantic waves.
In examining these imagined cataclsums, Page tries to provide a historical perspective in relation to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Page is a professor of architecture and history at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. The book is published by Yale University Press.

For more info, CLICK HERE.

As we suspected …

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Reporter Barton Gellman reports in his book, The Cheney Vice Presidency, that Vice President Dick Cheney declined an invitation from the president to lead the federal response in the disaster in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The Washington Post, accused of milking its publicity, has been releasing excerpts. Intrepid LA Times writers snagged some embargoed copy, to wit:

Anyone who had face time with Bush said he was smarter than the public believed, and meaner. He spared Cheney the thunderbolts — Rove got the worst of them, when Bush was in a mood to yell — but now and then aides saw the president give Cheney the back of his hand.

“Will you at least go do a fact-finding trip for us?” Bush asked.

“That’ll probably be the extent of it, Mr. President, unless you order otherwise,” Cheney replied. He was the Cheshire Cat inverted, only the smile dissolving, the rest of him still in the chair.

For more, CLICK HERE.

Author Wallace’s suicide not a surprise to some

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest won him accolades as “the voice of Generation X,” kind of like  Seattle-based rock star Kurt Cobain. Both were known to be tortured souls whose lives ended in suicide.
His father (Wallace’s) said the writer had been suffering from depression at the time of his death.
To learn more, CLICK HERE.