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Haunted Toaster rated Black Hole: 4 stars
Black Hole by Charles Burns
The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s …
Haunted Toaster rated The Coming of the Third Reich: 5 stars
The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans (The History of the Third Reich, #1)
"Brilliant.” —Washington Post
"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of …
Haunted Toaster rated The war of the worlds: 3 stars
The war of the worlds by H. G. Wells
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth.
Haunted Toaster rated Hardcore Zen: 3 stars
Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner
This is not your typical Zen book. Brad Warner, a young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, …
Haunted Toaster rated The Man in the High Castle: 4 stars
Haunted Toaster rated The Forever War: 4 stars
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (The Forever War, #1)
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would …
Haunted Toaster rated Starship Troopers: 2 stars
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his …
Haunted Toaster rated Blackshirts and Reds: 4 stars
Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology—terms often …
Haunted Toaster rated Power Play: 4 stars
Haunted Toaster rated The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie: 4 stars
The Shining / 'Salem's Lot / Night Shift / Carrie by Stephen King
The Shining
This masterpiece of modern horror builds relentlessly to an absolutely chilling and horrifying climax, as a little boy's …
Haunted Toaster rated State and Revolution: 5 stars
State and Revolution by Lenin
The State and Revolution (1917) is a book by Vladimir Lenin describing the role of the state in society, the …
Haunted Toaster rated The New Jim Crow: 5 stars
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Michelle Alexander
Revised and updated with a new, highly informative Preface that addresses changes under the Trump presidency and immigration
