BOOKS THREAD

I'll echo that F_B and add that his two-volume Elvis bio is essential.

 

Will go on my list. Cooke was an immense talent, but full of such interesting contradictions. I think that he gets lost in the history of American music.

 

I just finished re-reading Helter Skelter for the first time in about 15 years. That's one hell of a book and one hell of a story.

 

Can anyone recommend a writer whom writes like Upton Sinclair? I enjoy his works and "The Jungle" is one of my favorites of all-time.

 

Boy, that was a tough one to read. Waterworks were turned on full blast.

The Kerry Robinson stuff at the end was very intriguing.

 

Yeah, the Kile death produced a general grief. I don't think I've ever been moved by a sports story like I was that one.

When I was reading that chapter I remembered the asshole morning radio guys in Phoenix who prank called his widow during the playoffs and told her she was hot, asked her what she was doing, etc. The Cardinals wanted to tear those guys to pieces and should have.

 

Eric Schlosser, the author of "Fast Food Nation", would fit the bill there, Rumple.

And I'm not the first person to make that connection.

 

That book looks out-STAND-ing.

Here's a cool Q&A between O'Connor and Joe Poz on the latter's blog this week: http://tinyurl.com/5w442h

 

Just read John Gimlette's Theatre of Fish, a sort of travel/memoir/history of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Best thing I've read in YEARS. Tour de force writing. Apparently he wrote an earlier book about traveling to Paraguay and just had one come out about revisiting WWII European battlefields.

 

Don't know about the book but that is one GREAT title.

 

Kile chapter was first-rate. No two ways.