false 20 250 224 true 5625658 read 4 true 1328468 currently-reading 6 true 1328467 to-read 15 true 1381830 unfinished 1 true 1398107 wanted http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10423475 to: The Stand (Hardcover) by Stephen King
I consider this King's best work. It has a sort of consistency to it, and he somehow reigns in his tendency to ramble. THe book is HUGE--and not a single page is wasted. Love it! ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27973044 to: Popgun (Paperback) by Erik Larsen
Since this is a visual mix-tape, the quality ranges from item to item in this book. However each section is of high quality, and sort of like reading a book of short stories in comic book form. The worst bits are really advertisements for the artists' other projects (why pay money to see an advertisement?) the best---well there's many---surprisingly the best are generally the ones that either have a sense of humor, or are more realistic (instead of superhero fighting some thing)---The Bikini Vampires were a hoot as well as the nun-gang (and CREEPY!) there's a couple of really touching short vignettes. Cutting edge? not so sure about that----left of mainstream of course, but there's a heavy cartoon/anime influence that pervades about half the items--and it seems that this is much more white-bread than you'd initially respect. In a way popgun is the perfect title--- because all of this stuff is very pop---even if the gun occasionally is unloaded. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27875033 to: My Father and Myself (New York Review Books Classics) by J.R. Ackerley
Wowzers! The reason this book is so shocking is mostly because of when it was written and the times it describes more than what is actually in the book. Ackerley is unflinching in his descriptions of his life with his father---it certainly is a "warts and all" sort of book-

My advice---ignore the introduction by Auden---what he says is a pseudo-psychological spiel that I have problems with because it seems to indicate that gays cannot have real relationships and also because it kind of ruins any surprise you might have with Ackerley's father.

This books reads like a bird let out of a cage--the vignettes are fascinating, and his straight-forwardness is refreshing---particularly coming from an ery where one did not speak about "indelicacies."

]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27875145 Riders on the Earth: Essays and Recollections (Hardcover) by Archibald MacLeish
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