The Marilyn parts did not disappoint; a less gossipy person might have cared that the book just stopped cold being about Joe D and was just about Marilyn for fifty pages, but I didn’t mind …

It’s beautiful, and Ware’s rendering of everyday sound is amazing.   But I’m never reading it again because it’s so goddamn depressing.   (7/11/06)

You’ll get a better idea what I thought of the book (and its subject) in this here installment of the <a href=”gbcfive.shtml” mce_href=”gbcfive.shtml”>Girls’ Bike Club</a>, but here’s a sneak preview: Shut up, Jim Morrison.   …

It’s a strange little book of short pieces, but I like Mamet’s writing so much, the way he just trusts you to keep up and in turn trust him, and he just says what he …

I don’t know why I even owned this book; I think an editor sent it to me, thinking I’d like it, and it just sat on the unread pile for several years — and Lord …

It’s fairly informative on a technical level, which is a nice change, and it’s not all annoyingly “let me tell you about my experience with blah dee blah” like a lot of writing in this …

It started slowly — I was on a plane and I STILL couldn’t get into it — but once the Manson Family finally gets arrested (…spoiler!   Hee, just kidding), it picks up.   I …

The ending felt kind of rushed, and as I did while reading <i>Permanent Midnight</i>, I found myself wondering how someone so allegedly out of control could continue working and getting contracts renewed.   But the …

In the last twenty or thirty pages, the writing improved marginally, but the book’s central problem is that it claims to rebut certain theories regarding the Lindbergh case, while dismissing most of them with what …

I read it pretty much in one shot yesterday while waiting for The Invisible Verizon Man, which is good, because otherwise I don’t think I would have stuck with it.   Dunn’s ability to nail …