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I feel like I don't read nearly enough books now days. So, I'll probably just post ones that I've enjoyed over the years.]]> 34 male Philadelphia, PA 01/2008 10/2009 28 93 88 true 6006269 read 1 true 1705425 currently-reading 4 true 1705424 to-read The Perennial Philadelphians: The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy (The Leisure Class in America) by Nathaniel Burt]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57962701 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:00:23 -0700 Story of the New York Times: The First One Hundred (Hardcover) by Meyer Berger]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41545742 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:00:02 -0700 I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You (Paperback) by Bill Green]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62751873 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BdX%2Btt81L._SL75_.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:53:57 -0700 Please Step Back (Paperback) by Ben Greenman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57962611 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515cP06bucL._SL75_.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Sun, 31 May 2009 11:59:23 -0700 Bowl of Cherries (Hardcover) by Millard Kaufman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53335531 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224020019s/1259044.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Sun, 31 May 2009 11:58:49 -0700 Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression (Paperback) by Studs Terkel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53335614 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170533393s/59651.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:32:07 -0700 Wpa Guide to Philadelphia (American Guide Series.) by Richard J. Liebster]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32807099 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:31:04 -0700 The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape (Paperback) by James Howard Kunstler]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35959667 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900786s/125313.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:33:37 -0800
That's when he really starts to show the hysterical screaming fit he would become in his later work. It's a shame, because he does a very nice job on the historical background and commentary, here.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35959667 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171900786s/125313.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:58:41 -0700
Then, when he starts in on his visits and personal impressions of various cities and Disneyland... well, he becomes a bit shrill. He lost me a bit when, in response to a woman working at Detroit's Greenfield Village tourist attraction asking him how he was doing, he tells her that he is ashamed of his civilization.

This, coupled with his current mindset visible on his Weblog sort of puts me in mind of some Bizarro Lileks. Something snapped and snapped hard. Both see impending Armageddon everywhere, but for different causes and to different ends.]]> Man-Made Philadelphia (Paperback) by Richard Saul Wurman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35959738 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 841029 RJ White http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1201487076p2/841029.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/841029-rj-white Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:14:49 -0700