Category Archives: Parsing Palimpsests

I’ve been known to mail a book every so often to a friend, hoping they would catch the joy or humor or delight that I experienced reading its pages, but its much more wonderful to receive a book, out of … Continue reading →

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Oy-vey! This tome took me nine months to read. Ok, perhaps six, but a long time. Every paragraph of this mentally – and physically – heavy book forced me to stop and ponder what I just read and what I … Continue reading →

A Populist Manifesto The Making of a New Majority by Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield I am a Populist. Now you need to tell me why you are not. I read this book and I am sold, hook line and … Continue reading →

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Its been a long time since a book as captivated and moved me so completely. This was amazing.

A great quote from Dostoevsky’s Demons: “God is the pain of the fear of death. He who overcomes pain and fear will himself become god.” That’s all I got. Do I need more?    

I need space, I need trees. The concrete jungle is a great place to frolic and visit and spelunk through, but I don’t to live there. I want to live in a environment as far away from the urban landscape … Continue reading →

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So, I just finished an epic biography of Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts (Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography). For me Charlie Brown and gang were such meaningful characters to me, Peanuts in general a meaningful cartoon strip. In addition … Continue reading →

One – By Ambrose Wolfinger “Man ceased to be an ape and overcame the ape the day the first book was published. The ape had never forgotten this humiliation: just try to give him a book, and he will immediately … Continue reading →

Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Bart Simpson. She wrote a book. I bought it in a frenzied Simpson’s fit. Nancy Cartwright is the voice of Bart. That’s all I and apparently the book, have to say.

Arnie’s book should have been entitled: Stating the Obvious: Using Statistics to Draw Natural Conclusions. My god, I cannot believe the world praised this book as a breakthrough. God I am so fucking angry right now. And I don’t even … Continue reading →

Very eye-opening look at Robert Johnson and why he has become, wrongly so as Elijah surmises, known as the “King of the Delta Blues.” The book is based on a tremendous amount of research into the music scene at the … Continue reading →

All two and a half inches of this epic trilogy of 1000+ pages had been teasing me for ages on the shelf of my bookcase. It was there so long I forgot what review or wormholing reference inspired me to … Continue reading →

A friend gave me this work of fiction on my birthday last year. He met the author while travelling and started a conversation with him. The book centers on technology and in their conversation, the name of my computer mentor, … Continue reading →

Typical of my wormholing (i.e. following one reference to a particular topic, then another this references, then yet another, deeper and deeper and deeper.) this book perfectly echoes my utter disgust of television. However, where my opinion and argument ends, … Continue reading →

Not only was this one of those rare books that has you from the opening pages promising greatness at ever turn of the phrase, it delivered on its promise. I started it unintentionally in an inopportune time, for I was … Continue reading →

Remember the film This is Spinal Tap? (How can you not!) Remember the band’s manager in the film, the blonde British bloke? That is Tony Hendra. He is probably better known as the editor of National Lampoons, but neither here … Continue reading →

If ever there was a book written which one could call “glorious”, this is most certainly it. Zoe Oldenbourg has composed a book, based on historical documents, poems and the various memoirs of many historians of the time about the … Continue reading →

The Bear Come Home stars Bear, the main character. He is a bear. A real life, walking talking brown bear. He lives in NYC with his master Jones, who won Bear in a card game when he was just a … Continue reading →

What I knew before even opening this book, was that even though it was written in the late eighties, the authors chose to focus on the films of the fifties and sixties. In discussing the introduction, the exploration, then the … Continue reading →