We ate dinner, all of us together again, and I can still remember the tired, backlit image of an average man who thinks he's exceptional. After that, he cleaned his dentures and went to bed. And this is a day lived? This is a human being living a day of his life? A exercise in grief, a portrait of postpartum psychosis, and an existential temper tantrum all rendered in 150 pages of startling prose. First, I must thank Sara for gifting me a gorgeous copy of this book (we've met

Really great premise. Lackluster execution. Endless potential for a movie (again). I'll sprint my way through almost any game-centered dystopian story, but that doesn't mean all of them end up being winners. The Running Man had all the bones to get there, but a few of its vital organs were missing. The concept here is simple: a man has 30 days to be hunted by the nation or win $1 billion if he can survive that long. There's so much room for cool action sequences, clever esca