The Food of Love::Anthony Capella :: Rocco Sisto

Food, sex, and Rome. Delicious words string together bodies of edible women and edible animals and recipes of both until it seems uncivilized to separate eating and coupling.

19 Years of Reviews

As Marcus Aurelius would say, there are good mixtures and bad mixtures. Consider: A man, a dog, a Ford Explorer. An American, a surfboard, a wave. Or: an experiment, a scientist, the DOD. Good or bad? Koontz doesn't say. But incredible the speed with which we move to position ourselves behind the good, or theSeize the Night by Dean Koontz read by Keith Szarabajka

A nice little vignette of malicious 1990's life with its Coke, its Sexual Saturation & its top of the mornin' Fuck You Very Much Sadism. P.I. ex-con Harding is hired to track and video rich respected Plastic Surgeon & wife-beater in the course of perverse sexual scenes. Erotic, staccato descriptions of girls tied up,This Far No Further by John Wessel read by Richard Ferrone

Hope Springs: A foster child lovingly raised in an old Victorian house comes back, buys the old house, and opens up a Bakery Cafe where she can sell her special brownies.The Second Chance Cafe by Alison Kent read by Natalie Ross

"Salander was not a normal person." Bandied about from one institution to another, she has a casebook full of entries written by social workers, psychiatrists, administrators: serious Swedish officials. Because she does not speak, she is assumed to be stupid. She is not. Because she looks too young, she isThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson read by Simon Vance

An adulterous wife, a cracked small town doctor, a crooked partner, and a handful of gun-nuts, rednecks and vets are trapped inside this book like 5 men and 4 cowboy hats in a trailor. Third Degree by Greg Iles read by David Collacci

Increasingly, the essay, the critique, the report and the annunciation are being reconfigured in the form of fiction. Michael Crichton has mastered this form. His Next is more than a story about the re-distribution of genomes; it is Critique, Satire, Farce and Science Report, with: just the right amount of ironyNext by Michael Crichton read by Dylan Baker

In a small town in bourgeois Massachusetts, the wife of an NSA agent is killed by a car bomb as she starts up her husband's car. It seems obvious that the bomb was directed at the husband, but Jennifer, the twin of the dead wife, is not so sure. SheDeadly Codes by JP O'Donnell

Bennie's office of girls has moved uptown, and become a good hair office. The Good Italian Catholic girl and the Giant California Blonde combine glib girly gall with smart search skills to reconstruct, redress and prosecute a 60 year old wrong. Mary (GIC-girl) is obsessed with an old case aboutLisa Scottoline read by Kate Burton:: Mary goes to Missoula

Within the first minute and 34 seconds you know you are going to understand this book because Denning quotes James Dyson: "Of the world's ten largest corporations by revenue, 9 make big, heavy things, like cars." This is easy to follow, sensible stuff - and just the kind of obviousness thatThe Bull Hunter by Dan Denning

Sydney has a sister, a reporter, who is murdered. Dissatisfied with her powerful mother's decision to stop the investigation, she traces the last story of her sister's career, and discovers some very dirty truths. The Betrayed by David Hosp read by Richard Ferrone

And it occurred to him that the most important thing about Rode was that he had no friends. Smiley was reminded of Buchner's fairy tale about the child left alone on the Earth, who finding no one to talk to went to the moon because it smiled atA Murder of Quality by John Le Carre read by Keith Lloyd

Hitachi's beautifully directed High Definition video series called True Stories features a segment on "Coal's Comeback". A bunch of old em·phy·se·mic grandpas are fishing, muttering into the wind, when the voice of Bruce No of Hitachi America announces that Supercritical Technology is the new generation of Coal, the cleanSister Mine by Tawni O'Dell read by Renee Raudman

Kingdom of Lies (Unabridged) Length: 16 hours and 13 min. Release Date: 05-03-2006 First: ignore the Audible summary. There is an office bureaucrat sitting in Bangalore who listens to audiobooks in between doing customer service calls for Verizon and emergency care calls for Viagra wives. Which explains summaries that sound as ifKingdom of Lies by N. Lee Wood read by Ralph Cosham

Disgraced, crazed, outlawed for his goodie goodieness, ex-prosecutor for the Justice Department is given one last project: investigate the disappearance of Martin Green, an aide on the intelligence committee. J is coupled with a Southern belle-neophyte FBI agent, and instructed to find nothing.Law of Gravity by Stephen Horn read by Dylan Baker

Grace, who practices psychiatry on Manhattan Island, relays a story about one of her patients to the interviewer from Vogue: At a very early point in their relationship, before they were married, her husband told her that she had ugly feet. She accepted this, and having accepted this one instance ofYou Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz read by Christina Delaine