BOOKS THREAD

I was blown away by Finkel's book. I teared up at one point, laughed out loud at others and wish it ran on for about 500 more pages.

 

I just finished Fatsis' "A Few Seconds of Panic" and it was outstanding. Very, very insightful, interesting and properly critical of the meat-market treatment of players the and myopic, clueless, often-capricious management found in today's NFL.

Before then, I polished off "Game Six" -- Mark Frost's well-written, proctoscopic treatment of one of the greatest games in World Series history. Baseball fans in general (Hi, Buck) and Red Sox-Reds fans in particular, you need to run -- don't walk -- and pick this up.

 

I like Mark Frost. I'll have to pick that up -- then (finally) "The Machine," which I'm sorely lagging behind on. Not Poz's fault I've got about 8 books ahead of it in my queue.

 

Haven't read it, but we picked up a copy in my shop because Ted's head is here.

The photos are a tad... disturbing.

 

I've been reading a fair amount of book excerpts for a class I'm taking. Today I read from Tom Wolfe's "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test." At one point, I debated breaking the monotony by getting up, turning on a stove burner and sticking my face on it. Damn was some of that stream-of-consciousness crap awful.

 

Just finished Roy MacGregor's "A Life in the Bush", the story of his father's life. A wonderful book in every way.

 

Sirs, Madames,

One down. Though my expectations started out low and were further lowered by some here, I liked Moby-Dick. No problem on 100 pages a day. Again, the influence on Cormac McCarthy of the Blood Meridian vintage is pretty plain. I'm going to go to Crime and Punishment next. (I hit the 100-page mark during the summer and then thought I lost the book. It surfaced from under the couch during a vacuuming the other day.)

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A little plug for a friend of mine:

If you like zombie books, pick up "Dead Come Home" by Robert Fox. It's a self-published book on Amazon and CreateSpace right now, but I am hoping it creates a little steam and gets picked up.
The premise is simple: Zombies and the avoiding and destroying of zombies.
It's a wonderfully paced book, that only slows down long enough for a sip of water then picks back up again. I enjoyed every page of it.
Sadly, it's the first of a series, so the ending is a cliffhanger and the second book is being delayed in the writing process because the authors have other projects that actually pay the bills first.
It really was a good read, and that shocked me. I expected a lot of crap, but what I got was a really good book.
End of advertisement.

 

For anyone who is a Stephen King fan. A pricewar between Walmart and Amazon has started regarding King's new book. You can preorder the thing, which will be out next month for $9, hardcover.

 

That is one of the craziest things I have ever heard.
It is an absolutely wonderful book. All of his books through 'The Right Stuff' along with 'Bonfire of the Vanities' should be required reading in every writing program.

 

Ain't nothing boring about Travels With Charley.