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An interesting list that should generate some good recommendations and discussion. I like the angle.
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An interesting list that should generate some good recommendations and discussion. I like the angle.
Now reading: The Master Switch by Tim Wu
interesting but a bit funny at the same time. they focus on an important issue then pick "any" book that fits the bill. i doubt american pastoral and anything by gerald brooke will be a good call to the respective issues these books are dealing with.Quoting Benny Profane (view post)
"Over analysis is like the oil of the Match-Cut machine." KK2.0
Seriously. Fuck this book.Quoting lovejuice (view post)
Seriously. It's like they just went, "What's important right now? Iran? Oh, okay. What semi-popular book is about Iran?"
Movie Theater DiaryQuoting Donald Glover
I dunno, man... David Thomson has never impressed me. And Pollan's writing hurts babies. Good calls, though, on Trollope (one of my faves), Twain, Rushdie, Child, Buford, and Faulkner (I effing love The Bear).
I'm a little confused about why a list of "Books For Our Times" contains books written a century ago. Also, the subject matter and perspective of these books are so far spread that it reads like a grab-bag of books Newsweek editors have heard have some tangential relation to Issues In American History.
Where's Bret Easton Ellis? Where's George Saunders? Donna Tartt? Irvine Welsh? Martin Amis? David Foster Wallace? Amy Hempel?
This isn't a list of books about "Our Time," it's a list of books vaguely significant to 20th Century America. Don DeLillo's Underworld alongside Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and a Biography of Benjamin Franklin tells me these people have no idea what the fuck they're trying to do.
The lack of Infinite Jest makes this list, to me, a complete joke.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Oh, you like that book? I didn't realize.Quoting Milky Joe (view post)
What gave you that impression?
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
Has anyone read God: the Biography? That's the one that struck me as the most interesting.