I’m currently reading Small Vices, by the (regrettably) recently-deceased Robert B. Parker. I’m pretty sure, 250 pages in, that I have already read this book; but (a) I can’t remember how it ends and (b) every Spenser novel I’ve ever read is so completely brilliantly wonderful that I still enjoy them even after repeated consumption. [...]
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A long time ago I realized that it’s going to be impossible for me to read every book I want to read before I die. Fortunately that hasn’t stopped me from giving it the ol’ college try. As I get older I find that I spend more time watching television and the computer than I [...]
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I took a detour on the way home from the office tonight and hit the Westwood Borders book store. My half-step-sister-in-law gave me a gift card for Christmas that’s been burning a hole in my wallet, and I’ve got a long weekend of reading ahead of me. Here’s what I grabbed: The Drunkard’s Walk: How [...]
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a year since I read Krakatoa — The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, by Simon Winchester. Because I loved that book so much, at some point around Christmas I bought A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of [...]
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If you’ve never seen Midnight Run, I’m here to tell you it’s a pretty damn good movie. Charles Grodin always cracks me up. I am way behind on my media consumption this month. There’s the five most recent episodes of Rescue Me and the last two episodes of Entourage waiting on my TiVo. I’ve been [...]
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Tonight was the premiere of the final season of one of my favorite shows — Six Feet Under, on HBO. It’s really brilliant, this show. I can’t get over how every episode is just so freaking fantastic. I’m going to be a bit sad when it’s gone. Thinking is basically what I do for a [...]
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This list of my favorite books has been floating around my site for about a decade now … Originally I had it prefaced with: “This is my list of the all-time best books ever written. If you get a chance, read at least one of these before you die. The WWW is great fun, TV [...]
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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: [...]
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During the Revolution, the American ability to produce food was the one advantage of the Continental Army. The British Army might have been better trained and more experienced, and it was certainly better dressed and equipped. But the Americans were better fed. They were also better paid, and, thanks to Boston rum, they drank better. [...]
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