Vintage Pulp
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:54 am♠
The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Over a thousand pages of the stuff for under twenty dollars. And the promise of a lot of politically incorrect, fun male chauvinism.
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The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Over a thousand pages of the stuff for under twenty dollars. And the promise of a lot of politically incorrect, fun male chauvinism.
Vintage Pulp
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:54 am♠
The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Over a thousand pages of the stuff for under twenty dollars. And the promise of a lot of politically incorrect, fun male chauvinism.
xXx
The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age--The '20s, '30s & '40s
Over a thousand pages of the stuff for under twenty dollars. And the promise of a lot of politically incorrect, fun male chauvinism.
For Belief in God
Dec. 15th, 2007 11:07 pm♠
In “A Secular Age,” Taylor answers with a resounding no. He argues for “the ‘deconstruction’ of the death of God view” proclaimed by Nietzsche. To see secularization as simply the separation of church and state, the alienation of truth from power, and the rise of skepticism and worldliness, he writes, is to miss the deeper and more enduring residues of religion and the spiritual life, the true “bulwarks of belief” that in his view have hardly eroded.
-- John Patrick Diggins for The New York Times
A new book is out that may be taken as a deep and serious response to the recent spate of atheistic books that have gotten so much attention, Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age". I am taking it as a must-read, and the review is a keeper, too. Some spiritual food is good.
( Review )
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In “A Secular Age,” Taylor answers with a resounding no. He argues for “the ‘deconstruction’ of the death of God view” proclaimed by Nietzsche. To see secularization as simply the separation of church and state, the alienation of truth from power, and the rise of skepticism and worldliness, he writes, is to miss the deeper and more enduring residues of religion and the spiritual life, the true “bulwarks of belief” that in his view have hardly eroded.
-- John Patrick Diggins for The New York Times
A new book is out that may be taken as a deep and serious response to the recent spate of atheistic books that have gotten so much attention, Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age". I am taking it as a must-read, and the review is a keeper, too. Some spiritual food is good.
( Review )
For Belief in God
Dec. 15th, 2007 11:07 pm♠
In “A Secular Age,” Taylor answers with a resounding no. He argues for “the ‘deconstruction’ of the death of God view” proclaimed by Nietzsche. To see secularization as simply the separation of church and state, the alienation of truth from power, and the rise of skepticism and worldliness, he writes, is to miss the deeper and more enduring residues of religion and the spiritual life, the true “bulwarks of belief” that in his view have hardly eroded.
-- John Patrick Diggins for The New York Times
A new book is out that may be taken as a deep and serious response to the recent spate of atheistic books that have gotten so much attention, Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age". I am taking it as a must-read, and the review is a keeper, too. Some spiritual food is good.
( Review )
xXx
In “A Secular Age,” Taylor answers with a resounding no. He argues for “the ‘deconstruction’ of the death of God view” proclaimed by Nietzsche. To see secularization as simply the separation of church and state, the alienation of truth from power, and the rise of skepticism and worldliness, he writes, is to miss the deeper and more enduring residues of religion and the spiritual life, the true “bulwarks of belief” that in his view have hardly eroded.
-- John Patrick Diggins for The New York Times
A new book is out that may be taken as a deep and serious response to the recent spate of atheistic books that have gotten so much attention, Charles Taylor's "A Secular Age". I am taking it as a must-read, and the review is a keeper, too. Some spiritual food is good.
( Review )
The Fall of the House of Bush
Dec. 7th, 2007 08:18 am♠
"The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future" by Craig Unger
Okay, you can probably tell from the title alone that this book probably won't go down as the most coldly neutral analysis of Bush's policies, but I am still interested. It sounds like a widely encompassing account of these years and the main events. The Amazonians love it, though I suppose it is a pretty anti-Bush crowd, but aren't we all. Even conservatives are unhappy with the Administration. I think only the Christian fundamentalists are able to love this presidency, which explains a lot.
xXx
"The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future" by Craig Unger
Okay, you can probably tell from the title alone that this book probably won't go down as the most coldly neutral analysis of Bush's policies, but I am still interested. It sounds like a widely encompassing account of these years and the main events. The Amazonians love it, though I suppose it is a pretty anti-Bush crowd, but aren't we all. Even conservatives are unhappy with the Administration. I think only the Christian fundamentalists are able to love this presidency, which explains a lot.
The Fall of the House of Bush
Dec. 7th, 2007 08:18 am♠
"The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future" by Craig Unger
Okay, you can probably tell from the title alone that this book probably won't go down as the most coldly neutral analysis of Bush's policies, but I am still interested. It sounds like a widely encompassing account of these years and the main events. The Amazonians love it, though I suppose it is a pretty anti-Bush crowd, but aren't we all. Even conservatives are unhappy with the Administration. I think only the Christian fundamentalists are able to love this presidency, which explains a lot.
xXx
"The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future" by Craig Unger
Okay, you can probably tell from the title alone that this book probably won't go down as the most coldly neutral analysis of Bush's policies, but I am still interested. It sounds like a widely encompassing account of these years and the main events. The Amazonians love it, though I suppose it is a pretty anti-Bush crowd, but aren't we all. Even conservatives are unhappy with the Administration. I think only the Christian fundamentalists are able to love this presidency, which explains a lot.
End of the Season
Dec. 5th, 2007 02:48 pm♠
That was my last trip of the fall library season. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I had to take off my sweat jacket on the walk home from the bus stop, and that was the worst of it. I didn't even bring my book bag, just having the one book to drop off.
However, since I had some time to kill at the library before going off for my chicken fried rice, I browsed a bit, and I discovered another of those presidential books, one that sort of walks you through all the years and events of the Clinton presidency, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency". I was sure this would be great following "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential race.
Though, I see on Amazon that the book gets fairly trashed. One reviewer says the author serves Clinton as well as Lewinski ever did, complete with presidential knee pads. And it is only about the first term! Still, I have a thing for these intimate diary-like narratives on presidential politics, even though I can only think of one that I have actually read, on the 1984 presidential election, but I loved it. Wait, there was also "The Hadleman Diaries".
Maybe there is a communal factor in this fascination, since the presidency is something that we all share, even across generations and time.
xXx
That was my last trip of the fall library season. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I had to take off my sweat jacket on the walk home from the bus stop, and that was the worst of it. I didn't even bring my book bag, just having the one book to drop off.
However, since I had some time to kill at the library before going off for my chicken fried rice, I browsed a bit, and I discovered another of those presidential books, one that sort of walks you through all the years and events of the Clinton presidency, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency". I was sure this would be great following "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential race.
Though, I see on Amazon that the book gets fairly trashed. One reviewer says the author serves Clinton as well as Lewinski ever did, complete with presidential knee pads. And it is only about the first term! Still, I have a thing for these intimate diary-like narratives on presidential politics, even though I can only think of one that I have actually read, on the 1984 presidential election, but I loved it. Wait, there was also "The Hadleman Diaries".
Maybe there is a communal factor in this fascination, since the presidency is something that we all share, even across generations and time.
End of the Season
Dec. 5th, 2007 02:48 pm♠
That was my last trip of the fall library season. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I had to take off my sweat jacket on the walk home from the bus stop, and that was the worst of it. I didn't even bring my book bag, just having the one book to drop off.
However, since I had some time to kill at the library before going off for my chicken fried rice, I browsed a bit, and I discovered another of those presidential books, one that sort of walks you through all the years and events of the Clinton presidency, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency". I was sure this would be great following "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential race.
Though, I see on Amazon that the book gets fairly trashed. One reviewer says the author serves Clinton as well as Lewinski ever did, complete with presidential knee pads. And it is only about the first term! Still, I have a thing for these intimate diary-like narratives on presidential politics, even though I can only think of one that I have actually read, on the 1984 presidential election, but I loved it. Wait, there was also "The Hadleman Diaries".
Maybe there is a communal factor in this fascination, since the presidency is something that we all share, even across generations and time.
xXx
That was my last trip of the fall library season. I couldn't have asked for better weather. I had to take off my sweat jacket on the walk home from the bus stop, and that was the worst of it. I didn't even bring my book bag, just having the one book to drop off.
However, since I had some time to kill at the library before going off for my chicken fried rice, I browsed a bit, and I discovered another of those presidential books, one that sort of walks you through all the years and events of the Clinton presidency, "Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency". I was sure this would be great following "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential race.
Though, I see on Amazon that the book gets fairly trashed. One reviewer says the author serves Clinton as well as Lewinski ever did, complete with presidential knee pads. And it is only about the first term! Still, I have a thing for these intimate diary-like narratives on presidential politics, even though I can only think of one that I have actually read, on the 1984 presidential election, but I loved it. Wait, there was also "The Hadleman Diaries".
Maybe there is a communal factor in this fascination, since the presidency is something that we all share, even across generations and time.
What It Takes
Nov. 25th, 2007 10:39 am♠
Fuck me!
I already have too many 'must reads'. I definitely want to read Toobin's "The Nine" next for my serious reading, but I think the one-thousand pager "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential election has jumped to second place on the list - if it doesn't nose out "The Nine".
xXx
Fuck me!
I already have too many 'must reads'. I definitely want to read Toobin's "The Nine" next for my serious reading, but I think the one-thousand pager "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential election has jumped to second place on the list - if it doesn't nose out "The Nine".
What It Takes
Nov. 25th, 2007 10:39 am♠
Fuck me!
I already have too many 'must reads'. I definitely want to read Toobin's "The Nine" next for my serious reading, but I think the one-thousand pager "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential election has jumped to second place on the list - if it doesn't nose out "The Nine".
xXx
Fuck me!
I already have too many 'must reads'. I definitely want to read Toobin's "The Nine" next for my serious reading, but I think the one-thousand pager "What It Takes" on the 1988 presidential election has jumped to second place on the list - if it doesn't nose out "The Nine".
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!
Nov. 9th, 2007 11:00 pm♠
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”
-- William Blake
I have begun my second reading of "Paradise Lost", and I wish it were my hundredth, as it only reads sweeter. I bought a special edition for the occasion. When I learned about Gustave Dore and his illustrations, I had to get an edition that included them, and I got a big hardcover. Maybe it's a little too big, as it feels more like a coffee table book and is rather bulky and awkward to hold and read as I pace about. But I cannot complain; it is a beautiful book. If I need something more convenient when I go out, I can always bring my old Penguin edition.
xXx
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”
-- William Blake
I have begun my second reading of "Paradise Lost", and I wish it were my hundredth, as it only reads sweeter. I bought a special edition for the occasion. When I learned about Gustave Dore and his illustrations, I had to get an edition that included them, and I got a big hardcover. Maybe it's a little too big, as it feels more like a coffee table book and is rather bulky and awkward to hold and read as I pace about. But I cannot complain; it is a beautiful book. If I need something more convenient when I go out, I can always bring my old Penguin edition.
Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!
Nov. 9th, 2007 11:00 pm♠
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”
-- William Blake
I have begun my second reading of "Paradise Lost", and I wish it were my hundredth, as it only reads sweeter. I bought a special edition for the occasion. When I learned about Gustave Dore and his illustrations, I had to get an edition that included them, and I got a big hardcover. Maybe it's a little too big, as it feels more like a coffee table book and is rather bulky and awkward to hold and read as I pace about. But I cannot complain; it is a beautiful book. If I need something more convenient when I go out, I can always bring my old Penguin edition.
xXx
“The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true Poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.”
-- William Blake
I have begun my second reading of "Paradise Lost", and I wish it were my hundredth, as it only reads sweeter. I bought a special edition for the occasion. When I learned about Gustave Dore and his illustrations, I had to get an edition that included them, and I got a big hardcover. Maybe it's a little too big, as it feels more like a coffee table book and is rather bulky and awkward to hold and read as I pace about. But I cannot complain; it is a beautiful book. If I need something more convenient when I go out, I can always bring my old Penguin edition.