Franz Kafka and Coleridge Cook. The Meowmorphosis. Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2011. 208 pages. Book review Friday is back! This week, I’m taking a look at a little slice of fiction that merges modern man’s sense of alienation with kittens. Quirk Classics pioneered the literary mashup genre. Basically, you take a classic work of literature (e.g., […]
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book reviewsDennis Ogawa and John M. Blink, with Mike Gordon. California Hotel and Casino: Hawai’i’s Home Away from Home. Honolulu: Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, 2008. 135 pages. Some casinos get all of the hype, while others fly below the radar but are consistently good performers. The California, in downtown Las Vegas, is definitely one of
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book reviewsA review of Bill Zender’s Casino-ology: The Art of Managing Casino Games.
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book reviewsThis is my 1000th post at the die is cast, and what better way to celebrate than a review of a 50 year-old book that has nothing to do with gambling or Las Vegas? Suffice it to say that I’m just not a centralist. You don’t know what that means yet, but if you go
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book reviewsI thought this book was corny when I read it, but in a fun way. In retrospect, the title is hilarious. Dice can’t spell, so how they spell murder is beyond me. This is an almost Hinchcliffe/Holmesian Mad Libs: The X spelled (murder, death, fear, evil). I guess having “murder” in the title sold books,
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