There’s a pessimism here that I can’t believe in anymore. I know it well, as a clean-scrubbed child of the 80s it lurked all around…
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I’ve never worked so hard to finish a book. After reading William Morris’s The Well At World’s End, I can feel every aching step, every…
“Hey, buy this for me for Christmas.” So my wife and I have this unspoken arrangement. We spend so much time trying to get Christmas…
So I joined a book club. Like most good things in life, what we want and what we find we need are different things. Had…
“Be the Dude” Now there’s some internet-friendly, tweet-ready advice for ya. Welcome to a line of laid-back thought claiming many disciples, inspiring Dude-A-Thons and Lebowski…
Why do I read the books I read? Got my reasons. Three of ’em: There’s the stuff I read because I should (another turn through…
My favorite drug got the full-length treatment in Daniel Levitin’s science-lite best seller. I’d heard the guy interviewed a long time back, methinks on a…
Just finished reading Chuck Klosterman’s Eating The Dinosaur. Twice. It’s not that the prose was so poetic that I had to roll it around my…
The cover of this cheese-ball, spooky-font, mass-market paperback shouted it loud: “The most influential science fiction novel of the 20th century!” I call bullshit. If…
But what to do with it all? I once saw an interview with the author whence he noted the improbability that those who reviewed his…