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Book reviews
Cover of Things the Grandchildren Should Know [Purchase Book] The blurb from Rolling Stone that appears in the front of my copy of Things The Grandchildren Should Know calls Mark Oliver Everett (a/k/a E, of EELS) “the Kurt Vonnegut of the rock…
Lenny Bruce via last.fm [Purchase Book] As you’ve probably already guessed, I’m much of a First Amendment/Free Speech absolutist. It’s part of the handful of things that’s a political deal-breaker for me — in fact, it’s why I was initially distrustful of…
Cover of The Wordy Shipmates [Purchase Book] Sarah Vowell’s new book, The Wordy Shipmates is about the Puritans coming over from England in the 1620s. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s really interesting and gives the Puritans much more depth than…
Cover of Richard Feynman [Purchase Book] Richard Feynman has become somewhat of a folk hero for geeks; a scientist who knew so much about so much as well as being an amazing teacher, and a person who just had so many interests….
[Purchase Book)] The 33 1/3 series is a selection of short books, each one about an influential record album. The common comparison is that it’s a Criterion Collection for music; it’s not a bad comparison — the only difference between 33 1/3…
Image via Wikipedia [Purchase Book] One of the commonalities of being on television is that people will write you lots of letters. One of the rarities, however, is that the person written to will personally reply to every letter. As always, Fred…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase Book] David Hadju’s new book is about the history of censorship of comics, from the initial appearance of newspaper strips to the creation of the Comics Code in 1954 (and the fallout coming shortly after). Looking at the…
[Purchase Book] I think for most geeks, Richard Feynman is a bit of a hero. A Nobel-winning physicist who had a complete and infectious desire for knowledge in all its forms and a desire to share that knowledge with anyone who was…
Cover via Amazon [Purchase Book] Yes, the title DOES make sense. Perhaps not blind, but the explanation comes relatively early in the book — and it’s what the whole of the book is about. The What is the unknown — the Dinka…
[Purchase Book] Russ Meyer has come around from being thought of as a mere exploitation film maker to a low-budget film-making maverick. Though in each way, both are correct (with the exception of the word “mere”), he was more than that. Russ…