23 April, 2009

Book Reivew: Pain Killers by Jerry Stahl

A quick note: I don’t usually do straight-ahead reviews, but I’ve got this gig doing reviews on amazon.com for their Vine program, and this book irritated me enough that I wanted to reprint my review (with a few edits) here. So, uh, here it is.
Stahl: hoping for a third option.
There’s a quote from the mighty [...]

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22 October, 2008

Thomas L. Friedman’s Brain is Hot, Flat and Crowded

Captain Obvious writes another book built on a stupid metaphor.
Thomas L. Friedman just sucks.  We’ll start there.  Oh, and here too: since I have in the past written reviews of things I haven’t seen or read (like my virtual review of the Sex And The City movie) I ought to tell you up front that [...]

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