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Category Archives: Book Reviews
Review of The Great Gatsby (novel)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald My rating: 5 of 5 stars Accepting that clichés are such because they’re true, I’ll refrain from paying The Great Gatsby the usual accolades, let my rating speak for itself and merely list … Continue reading
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On Rachel Shteir and Linkbait
Last week Rachel Shteir’s review of The Third Coast, Golden, and You Were Never in Chicago appeared in the New York Times Book Review (though she claims it is actually an essay). Proud Chicagoans quickly responded: every city has problems, … Continue reading
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Tagged book reviews, chicago, new york times book review, rachel stheir, rhetoric, the third coast, thomas dyja
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Review of Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote My rating: 5 of 5 stars “He’d been put together with care, his brown head and bullfighter’s figure had an exactness, a perfection, like an apple, an orange, something nature has made just right.” … Continue reading
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Tagged breakfast at tiffany's, capote, f scott fitzgerald, literature, truman capote
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Dostoevsky’s the Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky My rating: 5 of 5 stars I just finished reading The Brothers Karamazov and have some thoughts on the book. 1) If you’ve been following you’ll know that I originally planned to stop reading … Continue reading
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Tagged dostoevsky, pevear, review, the brothers karamazov, volokhonsky
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Another bit from the Brothers Karamazov
Brothers Karamazov Originally when I started this series of posts I was going to write up a bit of a review of every tenth of Brothers Karamazov, sort of how I blogged about Murakami’s 1Q84. Well, with the marathon, Hurricane … Continue reading
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Tagged brothers karamazov, dostoevsky, freud, smerdyakov
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Don Thompson’s The $12 Million Stuffed Shark
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Disclaimer, cause I might as well just get it out of the way: If contemporary art makes your blood boil, … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, art, auctioning, branding, contemporary art, don thompson, economics
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Michael Lewis’ Moneyball
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis My rating: 5 of 5 stars Before I get started, I want to quote (actually to requote) a few choice bits from Bill James, a baseball-statistics enthusiast whose Baseball … Continue reading
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Tagged baseball, billy beane, financial derivatives, moneyball, sabremetrics, wall street
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The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs
The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs My rating: 3 of 5 stars The quick review: the book is targeted toward gay men, but it’s a worthwhile read if you have any interest in reflection, self-help culture, and even philosophy (if … Continue reading
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Tagged alan downs, gay, gender studes psychology, velvet rage
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