Tag: books
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Review: Clark’s Food Guide for Marathoners
Nancy Clark’ s Food Guide for Marathoners: Tips for Everyday Champions Nancy Clark For a while at least, this was the definitive book on nutrition for endurance athletes. We’ve come a long way from the days of eat a ton of pasta the night before the race. Here, Clark discusses the timing of carbo-loading, the…
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Review: Kurosawa’s Something Like An Autobiography
Something Like An Autobiography Akira Kurosawa Its funny what you remember about books. When I started thinking about writing this review the first thing I remember from this book (I read it about two and a half years ago now) was that Kurosawa sure did drink a lot. Besides that, I remember this one as…
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Review: Sach’s The End of Poverty
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time Jeffery Sachs You, being a smart person who is up on contemporary debates in economics and development and/or are a reader of Vanity Fair, probably already know all about Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs made his name giving “shock therapy” to various third world economies. He recommended they…
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Review: Johnson’s To The Edge
To the Edge: A Man Death Valley and the Mystery of Endurance Kirk Johnson An early example of what has become a bit of a mini-genre – the middle age man with little athletic background who goes on to compete in a profoundly grueling endurance event along the way learning about himself, and the chosen…
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Review: Brown’s Angels and Demons
Angels & Demons – Movie Tie-In Dan Brown You would think that after I finished this piece of utter crap I wouldn’t have carried on and read the DaVinci Code. But I did. Anyone who has looked at my other reviews know my taste in literature is suspect at best, but even I couldn’t stomach…
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Review: Cuito’s Koolhaas / OMA
Rem Koolhaas: Oma (Archipockets) Aurora Cuito I bought this little art book with a brief intro to Koolhaas’s ideas and buildings in the gift shop of his Seattle public library (which is still one of the most amazing building I have ever been in). It isn’t much of a book really, mainly picture from the…
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Review: LeCarre’s Spy Who Came In From The Cold
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) John LeCarre This is the one that made LeCarre’s name. It is a dark look at the horrible machinations of the KGB and MI6 at the height of the cold war, and the price that a number of foot soliders…
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Review: Pelacanos The Night Gardner
The Night Gardener George Pelacanos As you probably know, most of the writers for the Wire are actually accomplished crime novelists including Denis Lehane, Richard Price and this guy, George Pelacanos. Pelacanos made his name in crime circles writing hardboiled detail rich police procedurals taking place in Washington, D.C. This is the first book by him…
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Review: Sen’s Identity and Violence
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (Issues of Our Time) Amartya Sen Amartya Sen is kind of a hero of mine. He is totally brilliant, diverse in his interests, politically principled while practical, and an economist who understands economics do not explain the totality of the human experience. This is a little book he…
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Review: Bradley’s Saudi Arabia Exposed
Saudi Arabia Exposed : Inside a Kingdom in Crisis, Updated Edition John Bradley With the amount of attention Saudi Arabia gets in the western press, you’d think that there would be a metric ton of decent books out there on the modern history of Saudi Arabia. You’d be wrong. This one by journalist John…
Milo and the Calf 