I forgot to mention that I also recently read The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson. This was an excellent read. It’s a true story about the Chicago World’s Fair and … uhm … a serial killer. I really don’t want to give away too much of the tale, but if you’re simultaneously… Read more »
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Flyboys, by James Bradley
I just finished reading Flyboys: A True Story of Courage. My girlfriend’s little sister gave it to me for Christmas, which is some indication of how busy I’ve been this year. It’s a fascinating book, and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about WWII. It focuses mainly on captured Navy pilots… Read more »
Potter Mania
Lucy Holden of Rowling’s publishers Bloomsbury said: “We don’t want to spoil the title but it has been hinted at on Rowling’s website, and we can now confirm the title will be Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.” The fifth book, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix“, sold 1.77 million copies on… Read more »
Adcult USA — James Twitchell
I just gave away my last copy of Adcult USA, so I zipped over to Amazon™ to buy two more. I’ve bought eight — eight! — copies of this thing since I first read it.
Excellent Potential Book Titles
If I ever get a chance to write my memoirs, I think I will name them either: “What to Do If You Are Surrounded by the Entire Bolivian Army and Have No More Bullets” or “Snapshots: Twenty-seven 8 x 10 Color Glossy Photographs with Circles and Arrows and a Paragraph on the Back of Each One… Read more »
Missing Fish
For weekend fishermen, there are many tall tales about “the big one that got away.” The results of a new study indicate that big fish are indeed hard to catch. But disturbingly, the results suggest that’s because the world’s large fish–tuna, marlin, swordfish, sharks, cod and halibut among them–have been so exploited by industrial fisheries… Read more »
Buying Good Books
I am currently ludicrously behind on my reading list. I’m in the middle of six different tomes and there are another ten or twelve waiting next to the bed. The LA Times Festival of Books was probably not the best way to make any progress. I bought: Red Lobster, White Trash, and the Blue Lagoon:… Read more »
To Have and Have Not
Placing Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not in the 1930s – an essay by David Gagne
Eat the Rich
by P. J. O’Rourke P. J. O’Rourke is one of my favorite authors and his treatise on economics did not disappoint me. The book is comprised of eleven satire-filled chapters covering the study of economics and the impacts of economic theories on several nations. O’Rourke deftly explains how communism has created a catastrophe in Cuba and… Read more »
The First Time I Got Paid For It
A review of the book The First Time I Got Paid For It