Peter Knox

Heming Way is the only way, July 3, 2011

I don't know how The Hemingway hasn't been used as a book title before, but Beckerman's book more than lives up to it's name.

The book delivers the funny whilst highlighting the best parts of Papa's legacy. I wasn't sure you could wring out these many jokes and puns out of Hemingway's life, but Beckerman delivers, giving laugh-out-loud lines on every aspect of this storied history. If you don't think that war, hunting, womanizing, meat, fishing, writing, and alcoholism are hilarious, you just havent read this book yet.

It's obvious that Beckerman idolizes the man, which makes this passion of love work for the both the casual or obsessed fan. For any fan of Hemingway,… Read more

Kultgen's most ambitious yet; a no-brainer for fans, June 27, 2011

Wow. This left me shocked and breathless, like all of Chad's work before it, and if you know what you want, you want this book.

Men, Women, & Children is hardly as plain as its title suggests. This can't-put-it-down fast read is from the all-knowing omniscient and changing POV of many 8th graders and their parents as they navigate the fall semester together.
Kultgen writes with the same detachment that gives equal weight and insight into each of his character's personal dilemmas (sexless marriage, divorce, policing your child's internet, World of Warcraft, Middle School Football and Cheerleading, infidelity, prostitution, masturbation, porn, texting, depression, etc.) that… Read more

As well written as it is researched..., April 5, 2011

For any followers of the NYTimes' "DISUNION" blog http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/category/disunion/ we've been looking forward to this book's release for a long time.

150 years later and the Civil War is as relevant and interesting as ever, and Goodheart focuses this book around that first year, 1861, and how the Civil War REALLY came about.

In this beautifully packaged (deckled/uneven pages!) book, Goodheart spins a well crafted and accurate non-fiction narrative of the story of the start of our country's divide and brings our troubled political past alive in a story that reads unlike any other history book I've read.

It's the rare entry point to the… Read more