BOOKS THREAD

I'm starting this and liking it so far, but what gives with this author's need to bracket in commas during quotes?

It's not a big deal[,] but it's a bit distracting. For whatever reason[,] he seems to have a fetish for it to a degree I've never run across.

 

You should read stories by one of our reporters [here] ...

 

So our sports department just got a book "Then Perreault Said to Rico ..." The Best Buffalo Sabres Stories Ever Told.

Looks like it could be a fun read. There's also a DVD on the inside cover. If anyone wants it, PM with your address and I'll send it. (I'm going to read the book, but I'll send you the DVD).

 

Just got my hands on a 550-page Bret Hart book that was sent to the newsroom. Also going to snag "The Greatest Battle" by Andrew Nagorski that deals with "Stalin, Hitler, and the desperate struggle for Moscow that changed the course of World War II"

 

Just picked up Connelly's new one today. Looking forward to it - I thought The Lincoln Lawyer was better than a few of his recent Bosch novels (though I thought the last two Bosch novels were pretty solid).

Costco had both The Brass Verdict and BASW 2008. It was a good trip.

 

On my Kiwi excursion, I finished Jeffrey Toobin's "The Nine/The Secret History of the Supreme Court."

Outstanding. One of the most fascinating, well-written books I've read in quite some time. It was one of those books I was genuinely upset to finish, because I wanted to read more.

First of all Toobin's a heck of a writer. Second, the information and material was utterly captivating. Toobin got inside one of the least-penetrable institutions in America and brought it to light in a fascinating manner.

Key was two elements: the way he portrayed Sandra Day O'Connor as the linchpin to the Supreme Court for the last 25 years and the right-wing anger at not getting any of their judges seated until recently. He looks at the beginning of the Federalist Society and how it has built influence in law schools and courts over the last generation.

If you've got any interest in the Supreme Court, get this book posthaste. You'll thank me later.

 

awesome

 

I know the original edition was published decades ago (a new edition was released this year-which I just finished), but if you want to understand how an airtight case is brought against a reckless, wanton corporation, you should read Gerald M. Stern's classic "The Buffalo Creek Disaster."

He recounts his role as the plaintiff's lawyer in the 1972 coal-mining disaster in West Virginia that killed 125 people. His preparatory research was meticulous, to say the least, and some of his gambits were plainly brilliant.

I suppose it's unfortunate that the case remains so timely.

 

Going to the library tomorrow before work. Anyone got any recommendations?