"Apathy and Other Small Victories" by Paul Neilan (Amazon)
Sick yet funny book about a morally deliquent slacker who gets involved in a murder investigation. Laugh out loud moments but generally a creapy book. It's great! There's swearing in sign language in the book, yeah it's that good, shit head.
"The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" by Neal Stephenson (Amazon)
This was my first Stephenson book and i'm eagerly awaiting getting into some others. This tale investigates a future world where an engineer develops an interactive book to help guide his daughter. While attempting to make a second copy, the book finds it's way into the hands of girl who's under the tutalage of a disadvantaged family. The story then follows the growth of these books and girls and their way into adulthood. Fascinating look at not only development of an individuals but some of the social political ramifications of a technological world.
"The Fourth Bear" by Jasper Fforde (Amazon)
The setting is a world where book characters occupy the same breathing space as the rest of us. The UK police force has a special division (Spec-Ops 27) which investigates Nursery Crime. Unfortuantely for Detective Jack Spratt, the mass murder, Gingerbreadman (delightful SW reference in his murdering technique for those who read this one) has escaped from prison, a mysterious rash of explosions, and a finicky reporter named Goldilocks has gone missing. Lots of fun, this is the second in the series and an off shoot of the Thursday Next series, so if you like this one, there's many others. (Aside: the author was one of the photographers on many of the Bond films)
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