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  David Copperfield

  11.10.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  For the last month or so, I have been spending every weekday morning and afternoon on the drive to and from work listening to an excellent unabridged reading of Charles Dicken’s DAVID COPPERFIELD.  Though I am not quite done with it yet, I can safely say it’s one the best books I’ve ever read, and even [...]

• Books

  Great Expectations

  09.24.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yesterday I finished a three week experience listening to the unabridged audiobook of Charles Dicken’s GREAT EXPECTATIONS in my car. You’d think being an English major I would have read this in Great Books or something, but I either slept in that day or kept my eyes down during the lecture so I wouldn’t be called on, so up to [...]

• Books, People Who Died

  World War Z

  08.04.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  As a middle-aged Dad worried about his job, the economy, the dwindling value of his 401K, and paying for his kid’s college tuition, there’s nothing that concerns to me more than the upcoming Zombie Plague that threatens to destroy all mankind.  Which is why WORLD WAR Z, An Oral History of the Zombie War, is such a [...]

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  Great Books

  08.04.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  When I was a wee lad majoring in English, we had three “Great Books” classes we were required to take.  These were books chosen by scholars as being the most representative, over time, of literature during that particular time period.  We read Beowulf (without Angelina Jolie), we read Jane Austen, we read William Blake’s SONGS [...]

• Books

  Desperation

  07.02.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  For reasons as yet unknown even to myself, I have been making a habit out of listening to Stephen King novels as audiobooks.  I can count the number of actual “book” books of SK I have read on one hand - CARRIE, when I was a teenager, and a recent short story in ESQUIRE.  So far I’ve “read” CELL, which [...]

• Books, Existential Insights, Movies, Time Wasting Lists

  Brad’s Best of 2007

  12.30.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

   
  Well, 2007 is almost over.  As far as I’m concerned, it was a pretty swell year.  (A kind of a long year at times, but a pretty swell year…)  As if anyone cares, here are my highlights:

  Media Highlights:

  TV:  MAD MEN proved that if if you wanted to see a show as intense and psychologically complex [...]

• Books

  Steve

  12.12.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

   
  If you’re my age you grew up with Steve Martin, watch him on SNL, had all his comedy records which you can quote verbatim, read and enjoyed SHOPGIRL, and are actually pleasantly surprised to see he’s kept a career playing in kid’s movies like CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN.  So it’s really nice to see he [...]

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  More Swedish Detective Novels

  11.13.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

   
  I’ve been so busy lately I’ve barely had time to read anything but the Times and Penthouse Forum letters.  But finally I got a spare moment when the kids weren’t screaming and the wife was busy doing wife stuff, so I picked up THE MAN ON THE BALCONY by the Swedish husband/wife crime writers Maj Sjowall [...]

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  Dig The Panic

  09.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

   
   What have I been reading/listening to?  James Ellroy’s L.A. crime novel WHITE JAZZ.  It’s about a totally corrupt lawyer/cop/enforcer for the LAPD named David Klein who plays every possible angle and both ends against the middle in 1958 Los Angeles, trying to investigate a routine break-in at a drug Dealer’s house that turns into something [...]

• Books, Funny Funny Guys

  Children’s Book Corner

  07.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

   More books here.

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