Charlie's Bookshelf

I generally don't put reviews of my college textbooks.  There are a couple of reasons for this but the primary on is that I rarely read ...

Before my Game Design class went completely downhill, the professor recommended this book to us.  She said that it had an interesting relati...

"Can a magician kill a man by magic?" Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I s...

I first heard about 11/22/63 from an interview with Stephen King at the end of one of the first Gunslinger comics (I know, I am a nerd).  I...

For the third and final book in the Mongoliad (though not the last in the overarching Foreworld Saga, as the authors keep reminding us) I de...

I was first exposed to the wonders of ancient Rome by Colleen McCullough's Master's of Rome series which is a novelized version of t...

One of my friends offered me the loan of The Scar whenever I wanted to borrow it.  When I started Gravity's Rainbow I decided that The...