Tag: books
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Review: Lewis’s The Money Culture
The Money Culture Michael Lewis I love me some Michael Lewis, and I have confessed here before a pleasure in the business tell all book. Michael Lewis wrote one of the genre, Liar’s Poker. This collection of pieces written right before and after Liar’s Poker is all right, but not his best work. I have…
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Review: Turow’s One L
Ed. Note: This review was written for a now defunct livejournal account while I was in my first year of law school. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School Scott Turow Before I started law school, I was repeatedly told to buy this book by bestselling mystery author…
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Review: Fasman’s the Geographer’s Library
The Geographer’s Library Jon Fassman This is the kind of popular novel I generally like, a “literary page turner” that in the old days would have been compared to In the Name of the Rose but which is now compared to the Da vinci Code. Its plot driven, but with intellectual pretenses and is right…
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Review: Bruadel’s The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization & Capitalism 15th – 18th Century Volume 2
Ed note: this review was written in 2007, while I was in my first year of law school, for a now long defunct livejournal account I had. The Wheels of Commerce (Civilization and Capitalism: 15Th-18th Century -Volume 2) Fernand Braudel The Phonix Press Reissue, 601 pages (Originally published in France as Les Jeux de l’Exchange,…
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Review: Banksy’s Wall and Piece
Ed note: This was written for a now defunct livejournal in 2007. So funny to go through these old reviews and see that I wrote about things like Game of Thrones and Banksy before they became household words, covered int he New Yorker. I was once kinda withit I guess, fifteen years ago. Wall and…
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Review: Eichenwald’s the Informant
The Informant: A True Story Kurt Eichenwald I don’t want to say too much about this, because if you read it, you should really get the surprised as they come along. Let’s just say it is about a major price fixing scandal that brought down a bunch of powerful people at the powerful Archer Daniels…
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Review: Martin’s A Storm of Swords
Ed note: This was written for a new defunct live journal circa 2007 before GOT became the pop culture juggernaut it is now. A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 3) George R.R. Martin Basically a soap opera, but my kind of soap opera, with the occasional swordfight/dragon and or touch…
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Review: Martin’s A Clash of Kings
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2) A Song of Fire and Ice Series Book 2 George R.R. Martin Spectra Reissue, 704 pages The second volume in Martin’s massive series of books about conquest and intrigue in his imaginary world of Westeros is even more of a soap opera than…
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Review: Coates’s Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates How does one review a book like Between You a Me? Especially when one is me – an educated, white, straight, middle class dude. What can I possibly say? I can say that it deeply affected me. That even now, over a week after finishing the book, it…
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Review: Pessl’s Night Film
Night Film: A Novel Marisha Pessl New Rule: If a book is worth reading, it is worth the effort of writing a review of at least 250 words. All reviews will end with one of three sentence fragments: (1) “recommended” meaning I can recommend the book to most readers without caveat (2) recommended for the…
Milo and the Calf 