On Our Radar: Books Just Out Or Coming Soon We Thought You Should Know About

Books on our radar: what's just come out or about to come out that we think you should know about. Some have buzz, some will fly too low, but we wanted to bring them to your attention.

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"Tortured Logic: A Verbatim Critique of the George W. Bush Presidency," Joseph Russomanno

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Short quotes from Bush himself and every major critic. Jonathan Alter calls it "fresh and terrifying." (Potomac Books, April 2011)

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Short quotes from Bush himself and every major critic. Jonathan Alter calls it "fresh and terrifying." (Potomac Books, April 2011)

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Not going to read this! I'm going to read this!

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[spottery2k]

10:48 AM on 05/16/2011

http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/782659

[heneverdies]

06:58 PM on 05/15/2011

My vote is for this self published book I found out about yesterday. Hellucination

Check out the Facebook page. www.facebook.com/hellucination

Synopsis is..On man's journey thru life while trying to find God. His conclusion was to use LSD and nitrous oxide as a catalyst to go thru the veil of reality to find God personally. He not only found God, but he also found Satan, masquerading as God during his trips into the ether. Unreality and reality begin to meld together as Antichrists, angels and the possessed sought Stephen out for personal meetings at the most normal of circumstances. The Lord finally stepped in and showed him, who He was and then sent him to Hell to see what awaited everyone there.

The word is, it's as if Hunter S. Thompson wrote Dante's Inferno while experiencing Jacob's Ladder.

Now that's something I can sink my teeth into. Talking about a July release so I'll be looking for it.

[Lisa Carlson]

06:08 PM on 05/15/2011

"Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death," by Slocum and Carlson, pub date June.

The authors take over where Jessica Mitford left off. Plus all new information for the home funeral movement. Sample chapter here-- www.funerals.org
Table of Contents here -- http://www.upperaccess.com/processxml.asp?tid=FLRT&StyleSheet=title.xsl

[DasistDilly]

07:53 AM on 05/15/2011

Seriously? That is the top 15 books I have to look forward too. Instead of having to spend 30-60 minutes watching the news about the world. I have to now spend hours reading a book about the state of affairs in Cuba or a lame politician? The hours we spend reading is possibly one of the only things in life that truly allow us escape from reality - why waste it reading this rubbish?

Totally missed G.R.R.M off the list! Unbelievable!

Here is something really worth reading https://www.facebook.com/pages/HOPE/162347297153507?sk=info

[henriette and hube]

04:24 PM on 05/14/2011

Greater Journey won't be released until the 24th which is the only book on this list that looks remotely interesting to me. I have it on order. Am currently reading The Paris Wife which is beautifully written and a delight to read.

[dowl]

07:33 AM on 05/14/2011

Can't wait to read Geoffrey Dunn's Lies of Sarah Palin! I wonder will it be a tale of grifting for gold in the name of God with guns?

[LisaCACO]

08:49 PM on 05/13/2011

had enough of sarah palin. couldn't pay me to read a book about her, critique or otherwise.

[Nancy Hirabayashi]

11:31 AM on 05/13/2011

C'mon, people, where's "The Pale King"? Has that already jumped your shark? It's unfinished, true, but the characters and the IRS workplace details are unforgettable!

[ChrisRoberts]

03:30 PM on 05/13/2011

Here's you Pale King:

A Scaffold of One's Own

Self-murder burns its own special incandescence. Suicide is a light affair because it is entered into lightly. The one-thousand questions asked by those left behind are without weight because it matters nothing to Death. Grieving embarrasses the suicide itself, especially so in novelist David Foster Wallace's case, by the very act of memorializing it in writing and twice-fold in the reading of it out loud at a service. The point of self-murder is too leave everyone and thing behind, not be followed after with airy prayers and ornate praise.

Wallace is mere an example. Suicide manifests itself through a natural extension of self and there really is no mystery, no self-recriminations. A life lived is light too in contrast to the epochal march. What came before, the now and what is future days converged to present Wallace the opportunity for self-murder. It is only a question of method, not if, and the suicide’s fatalistic joining with absolutism. Death, a singular death, is a trifle. Suicide as method is inconsequential in its repetitiveness and endlessly leads to the next man waiting in self-murderous solitude.

[John Dav Redux]

04:05 PM on 05/25/2011

lol

[cheeriogirl]

09:30 PM on 05/12/2011

The Lies of Sarah Palin is a FASCINATING book, and extremely well written- it's a MUST READ! I'd give it five out of five stars!

[CAgal]

09:10 PM on 05/12/2011

Wow! Want an in-depth peek into the complex "wiring" of Sarah Palin? "The Lies of Sarah Palin" by Geoffrey Dunn will give you just that. It is extremely well-written. It is investigative journalism at it's best, including first-hand accounts and historical facts. He writes about the pattern of deception that has shrouded the Heath-Palin clan from the get-go, and how this pattern has been internalized by Sarah Palin, both personally and professionally. He shows how the effects of her consequent and worsening erratic behavior reverberates throughout all that she comes in contact with. Dunn is not particularly trying to "prove" anything here. He's simply offering a painstakingly-researched account of a heretofore unknown person, who has who has been in our faces every single day for the last 2.75 years. This is a hugely important book that needs to be in front of as many readers as possible! Highly recommended!

[ChrisRoberts]

07:51 PM on 05/12/2011

Jim Shepard's collection is a must miss.The single thread that ties the eleven stories together, setting, winds its way through the pages a dense, provincial artifice. I believe very little in the characters, they are swallowed up the very landscape meant to define them in their encounters with disaster, impending and otherwise.

Or man as an unnatural force, "Classical Scenes of Farewell" which is a typical serial killer telling. The backdrop is nature's wrath and a catastrophe to the storyline in "The Netherlands Lives with Water," and many of the other tales. It makes for claustrophobic reading and I'm one for the wide open, sans trumped up natural calamities.

[niko73]

04:35 PM on 05/12/2011

Um, let me be the third person (out of 4 comments total) to remind you that you've missed the 5th part of the best written fantasy series since Tolkien, George R. R. Martin's "A Dance with Dragons."

There is no other book I care about compared to that treat.

[MarsAmbassador]

04:00 PM on 05/12/2011

Where the heck is George R. R. Martin on this list?? We've been waiting 6 years for 'A Dance With Dragons'! I can't tell you how many new release dates this thing has gotten over the years! This latest July release better be real!!!

[c-tom]

01:54 AM on 05/13/2011

A new novel by Thomas Perry will soon be out continuing the story begun in 'Butcher's Boy' published in 1982. Don't feel too bad about a 6 year wait.

[Theoricus]

03:57 PM on 05/12/2011

Again, no 'A Dance with Dragons' by George R.R. Martin?

The shame.

[sdilmoak]

02:31 PM on 05/12/2011

I am reading Geoffrey Dunn's, "The Lies Of Sarah Palin." It is a shocking unveiling of what has gone on behind the scenes! A MUST read!