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It’s really a very good book; I just had problems with putting it down and then for some reason not wanting to pick it back up again, but I’d recommend it for a well-chosen cross …
I liked Ken Smith’s book about social hygiene film, but this one is slight, and something about the tone isn’t fun; it’s hard to explain. (2/16/04)
Didn’t love it. Too many digressions, too much talking about Nyack, and in spots it felt forced, especially when the author was rising above some situation or another — some of the remembrances and …
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 …