Book Review
But by the Chance of War
by Joe Taylor
Heroic couplet-form dialogue brings an epic feel to this survey of war and human nature’s destiny. No one is more aware of the paradoxes inherent in war than its principals. In this epic survey, Richard Lyons takes to battlefields and...
Book Review
Two or Three Years Later
by Joe Taylor
To read this surreal series of madness, first check your sense of reality at the door. “A man, whose name I’ve thankfully forgotten, came up to me and said something that I’ve thankfully forgotten.” So begins “An Almost...
Book Review
God Must Be Weeping
by Joe Taylor
“No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.” The speaker was U.S. Army Gen. George Patton, whose attitude toward wartime behavior is espoused by Hunter,...
Book Review
Holy Spokes
by Joe Taylor
For the relative beginner or the casual rider who wants to ramp up participation in the activity, "Holy Spokes" is a good fit. Rob Coppolillo serves as an ambassador and an advocate, selling the activity of biking as fun, cheap, healthy,...
Book Review
Cold Deck
by Joe Taylor
For a guy who deals out luck in the high-stakes blackjack pits of Las Vegas casinos, most of Jude Helms’s personal fortune is bad. Lately he has lost two jobs, the first after seventeen years at the Monaco, and the next after only four...
Book Review
American Weather
by Joe Taylor
It isn’t often that a reader meets a narrator as duplicitous, as arrogant, as utterly sociopathic as is Jim Haskin, multi-multi-millionaire and president of the San Francisco ad firm, American Weather. AmWe’s twenty-five impressively...
Book Review
The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets
by Joe Taylor
It is a Tuesday morning in November, and Diana Wagman’s fourth novel could take place only in Los Angeles. Winnie Parker, a thirty-eight-year-old single mom, has been waiting for a rental car outside a service station. Her mother is...
Book Review
Cold Quiet Country
by Joe Taylor
The town of Bittersmith, Wyoming, is rarely the scene of a murder, but on a winter day in 1972, with a blizzard moving in, the sheriff takes the call from a farmer’s wife, who announces, “Gale G’Wain run him through with a...