“I wrote 63 songs this year. They’re all about Jeter.” Just kidding. The game we love, the players we hate, and more.
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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 …
Jay Mohr’s primary complaint here seems to be that he couldn’t get many sketches on the air, but if the writing in this book is any indication…I mean, I know writing a book and writing …
The book came out in ’02, so it’s even funnier now to read through the list of dot-bombs…although I still kind of miss Kozmo and think he was unnecessarily mean to it. I mean, …
Good writing, good plotting, deeply annoying characters, especially the women. I really couldn’t stand Robin, and maybe I’m not supposed to like her, but I don’t enjoy spending that much time with characters who …