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In fact, all of Michael Crichton’s books are fast paced and entertaining. What’s even better is that when you finished reading his books, you feel like you’ve done a brief course in a scientific subject. Entertainment with an educational underpinning. It doesn’t get any better for me. Now this book raises a very serious subject. [...]

Michael Medved says Obama would benefit from a direct attack from Rev. Liberal bloggers criticize and encourage Barack Obama here. Jerome Armstrong says his candidate, Hillary Clinton, correctly supports a gas tax holiday and a windfall profits tax on oil companies to pay for it. John Hinderaker questions how far apart Barack Obama really is [...]

I find Salman Rushdie nothing more than a literary playboy. That he is a fine writer, I have not a dram of doubt about but I hate the way he is feted about in academic circles. I however would be compelled to echo the opinion that the subjects of Rushdie’s books are almost always fascinating, [...]

Michael Bond is the author of the children’s books about Paddington the bear, which I thoroughly enjoyed as a child and as a parent reading them to my own kids. I thought I would give his books for adult readers a try. Monsieur Pamplemousse is an undercover food critic for The Guide, a prestigious French [...]