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Author: Mike Pihlman

  • NPR's Fiction Bestsellers August 12 2010

    I must be missing some good reading (but then again, best selling does not always = really good book)….the above picture is the #1 paperback bestseller as of August 12 (today, at least for a little while longer in CA). Check out the NPR site for the entire paperback list. Then check out the bestselling…

  • Book Review: "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" Second Read

    Book Review Getting ready for the movie, I just finished “Deathly Hallows” for the second time yesterday. I must say, I caught a lot more of the details the second time thru it (I also purposely slowed down).  Some of the parts that were confusing the first time, made sense now.  Sooooo, if you have…

  • So many books, so little time

    Being such a slow reader, I often lament that there are sooooo many books to read, but, sooooo little life to read them.  The older I get, the more that applies. Well, I was surfing today and found a Gizmodo article that tells me Google has figured out how many books there are.   Leave…

  • August 2010 Thrillers

    There are 38 new Thrillers for your summer (even though school is starting, or, in some cases, has already started…..hmmm, whatever happened to “summers”?) reading pleasure. I’m re-reading “HP and the Deathly Hallows” getting ready for the movie in November.  Interesting how little I remember from the first reading…. The Bishop by Steven James City…

  • NPR List the Top 100 Thrillers

    I thought my reader (yeah, you) would be interested in the NPR listing of the top 100 Thrillers. Several of them are reviewed here, and I mostly agree with the rankings.   🙂 Here are some that I reviewed on this site: #6 #71 #89

  • "Crime Scene Cleanup" by Mike Pihlman

    "Crime Scene Cleanup" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Larry works as a crime scene cleaner. One day, Larry is working a particularly disturbing crime scene.  Entrails all over the house. Everywhere Larry went he found, and had to clean up, intestines. Miles of fresh hot intestine….what the heck is going on?  How can this be? Larry realized, suddenly, that the intestines were…

  • Book Review: "Pursuit of Honor" by Vince Flynn

    Book Review: "Pursuit of Honor" by Vince Flynn

    Book Review Genre: Thriller Rating:  3.5 Watertowers (Rapp wraps up “Extreme Measures”) Six days after the events in “Extreme Measures”, Mitch Rapp, his boss, CIA Director Irene Kennedy, and Mike Nash are trying to find the surviving terrorists. Several Senators and many civilians and government employees who were having lunch at a famous restaurant are…

  • Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Trailer

    Even though we all know what happens, I am definitely looking forward to the last two movies.  As you watch this, it looks to me as though a lot of liberties were taken, but, I’ll need to read the book again to refresh my memory. (I did that…see my review on this blog).

  • Book Review: "Altar of Eden" by James Rollins

    Book Review: "Altar of Eden" by James Rollins

    BUY it! Genre:  Thriller / Adventure Rating:  4 WaterTowers (Awesome thrill ride) This book was signed by James Rollins and sold at Costco.  I grabbed it. 2003: At the recently destroyed Zoo in Bagdad, Iraq two boys searching for scraps of food witness a strange beast mauling a murderer.  Under the cover of the chaos,…

  • "Burglar by Wire" by Mike Pihlman

    "Burglar by Wire" by Mike Pihlman

    Genre: Horror Jean was tired of burglers breaking into her house when she was at work. Iron bars on the windows, a sophisticated burglar alarm, dogs (both big and small), cameras…nothing worked. Jean was an astro physicist with a love for tinkering.  She decided the time was right to make her own alarm system. One…