Books

> According to America's New York Post newspaper, a source has alleged the pop queen did not write her Kabbalah-inspired children's books by herself. > The insider claims the stories - 'The English Roses', 'Mr. Peabody's Apples', 'Yakov and

Tech Central Station has run a neat--though somewhat chilling--piece about the sci-fi work of Philip K. Dick. Link [http://www.techcentralstation.com/071105B.html]. Excerpt: > Indeed, Dick, although stone-cold dead for nearly a quarter-century, is doing pretty well. His 50 volumes of fiction have inspired such classic movies as

The Clare Booth Luce Policy Institute has run a review of Christina Hoff Sommers' and Sally Satel's book, One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance. We'd give the review a five, on a scale of 1-10, but the book sounds pretty

Eric Scheske isn't a big Harry Potter fan, but his wife and oldest son, Alex, love the books (last count, Alex had read one of the books (stifle gag) eight times). So this is for them: How to make your own Harry Potter coins: > You'll

A.J. Jacobs read the 32 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, A to Z. He then wrote a book, The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World. It's a good book: filled with facts and funny comments. It's

The Council on American-Islamic Relations is mailing out free copies of the Koran. Go here [http://www.cair-net.org/explorethequran/] to order one. Ten dudes with black scarves around their faces will even visit your house thirty days after you order. To, you know, answer any questions you have about

We hate to brag, but we called it [https://thedailyeudemon.com/?p=860#comments]. > New York superagent Judith Regan has bought the rights to the life stories of runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks and her fiance after offering them $500,000 for a package that -- in an unusual twist

The July 4th issue of The American Conservative has a good review by Marian Kester Coombs of America's Most Hated Woman: The Life and Gruesome Death of Madalyn Murray O'Hair. A few excerpts (no link available): > Despite (or perhaps because of) an IQ of 150,

If you liked that page of horror magazine covers that we posted yesterday (link [https://thedailyeudemon.com/1356/]), you might like this gallery of magazine covers from Weird Tales pulp magazines (1920s to early 1940s). Link [http://www.noosfere.com/showcase/weird_tales_1924.htm].