There are certain things that we have come to expect in a Quentin Tarantino screenplay: Great dialogue, non-stop action, and violence immediately come to mind, and his newest fare, Inglourious Basterds, doesn’t disappoint in any of those areas.

This is a story about LT Aldo Raines, a hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee, and his group of merry men knows as the “Inglourious Basterds”. They are a rag-tag group of Jewish-American soldiers, thrown together whose main goal is to go through German occupied Europe during WWII, killing as many Nazis as they can, collecting scalps along the way.
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Best known for his Saturday Night Live characters “Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker” and “The Fat Chippendale Dancer”, as well as the film, Tommy Boy, TV and film actor Chris Farley died three days before Christmas, 1997, much too young at the age of thirty-three.

Published in 2008, The Chris Farley Show, a Biography in Three Acts, by Chris’s brother Tom Farley Jr. and Tanner Colby, takes us through Farley’s life through the eyes of family and friends in a very interesting, interview format.
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Jimmy Boone is an idealist. He thinks things should be a certain way. That’s what got him in trouble in the first place. That’s how he lost the best damn job he ever had. That’s how he gets into huge trouble in Richard Lange’s new debut novel, This Wicked World.

Boone used to be a body guard for the rich and famous of Los Angeles, until he beat up a client. Now, he’s a bartender on parole. Boone gets talked into going with his buddy Robo to meet with an old man, Mr. Rosales, to find out what happened to his grandson, Oscar. Oscar, a Guatemalan immigrant, was found dead on a bus a few days earlier, full of dog bites and infection. Oscar was a good boy, with a young son and a girl he was going to marry.
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We have known Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Richard Ramirez, John Wayne Gacy, and of course, Jack the Ripper. None of these real-life psychopaths compare to the calculating madness that is Henri Benoit, James Patterson’s villain in his upcoming novel, Swimsuit.

To say that Benoit is a hired killer is like saying that Mount Everest is just a little hill. Benoit works for an elite group who he refers to as “The Alliance”. He picks the victims, usually very young women, toys with them, drugs them, rapes them in a variety of manners, and then finds very different ways of killing them. Each kill gets videotaped and sent to “The Alliance” for a handsome payment. Read the rest of this entry »

Here we are, almost a decade into the 21st century. Times have changed and we need new guidelines to go by. Jeff Wilser’s The Maxims of Manhood fills this role. Wilser gives us 100 rules for the modern man to live by.

Wilser covers every part of our daily lives: women, sports, sex, the office, family, entertainment, fashion, and fitness. Each section has ten new Maxims, all with examples and exceptions. Know who’s pitching. Your dog should be larger than a toaster. Outperform the GPS. And the always important, keep an empty urinal between you and the next guy.
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Cemetery Dance, the new novel by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child starts off with a shocker and doesn’t release its grip until the end. The book opens with the violent murder of reporter William Smithback and near murder of his wife, anthropologist Nora Kelly, in their Dakota apartment in Manhattan and takes the reader on a roller coaster thrill ride right to the end.

There was no doubt that the murderer was a Dakota neighbor, Colin Fearing. He was witnessed leaving bloody and disheveled by several people who lived in their building, including the doorman, and was clearly visible on the lobby security camera. The only problem, Fearing committed suicide almost two weeks earlier and was already buried.
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In the latest installment of Stuart Woods’ Stone Barrington series, Loitering with Intent, Barrington heads to Key West to track down Evan Keating, who needs to sign documents which would allow his father to sell the family business. Sounds easy enough, but things don’t quite work out the way they should. Keating doesn’t want to be found, and when Stone does find him, he isn’t interested in signing the papers.

Barrington, a former cop turned detective, and his friend Dino Bachetti, a New York City police Lieutenant and Stone’s former partner, quickly find themselves embroiled in a murder mystery. It seems that Charlie Boggs, long-time friend of Keating, and now a major Key West drug dealer, was found killed, leaving Keating at one of the suspects.
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If you’re looking for a good read, full of suspense and action, with a bit of humor tossed in for good measure, Harlan Coben’s new novel, Long Lost (release date March 31, Penguin/Dutton), may be just what the doctor ordered.

Long Lost starts at break-neck pace and never lets up. From the first page, when former athlete turned sports agent turned detective Myron Bolitar receives a mysterious phone call from former girlfriend, Terese, asking him to come to Paris, to the shocking conclusion, it is non stop action and suspense. It was very difficult to put this one down.
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