Quote from: dave from knoxville on June 17, 2008, 12:22:51 PMQuote from: JonFromMaplewood on June 17, 2008, 11:41:03 AMQuote from: dave from knoxville on June 17, 2008, 06:06:24 AMI am working my way chronologically through Cor Double-Mac (thank you JJ Jackson!). Suttree is next. The first three were horrific. My therapist (don't judge) actually asked me to stop reading them. I'm sorry, I meant my "friend that I pay".I judge you awesome. Cognitive behavioral? Freudian? I found cognitive behavioral to be most effective for me.I will email him right this moment and ask.Hey, he got back to me and said "Very close to traditional cognitive behavioral, with a dollop of voodoo."
Quote from: JonFromMaplewood on June 17, 2008, 11:41:03 AMQuote from: dave from knoxville on June 17, 2008, 06:06:24 AMI am working my way chronologically through Cor Double-Mac (thank you JJ Jackson!). Suttree is next. The first three were horrific. My therapist (don't judge) actually asked me to stop reading them. I'm sorry, I meant my "friend that I pay".I judge you awesome. Cognitive behavioral? Freudian? I found cognitive behavioral to be most effective for me.I will email him right this moment and ask.
Quote from: dave from knoxville on June 17, 2008, 06:06:24 AMI am working my way chronologically through Cor Double-Mac (thank you JJ Jackson!). Suttree is next. The first three were horrific. My therapist (don't judge) actually asked me to stop reading them. I'm sorry, I meant my "friend that I pay".I judge you awesome. Cognitive behavioral? Freudian? I found cognitive behavioral to be most effective for me.
I am working my way chronologically through Cor Double-Mac (thank you JJ Jackson!). Suttree is next. The first three were horrific. My therapist (don't judge) actually asked me to stop reading them. I'm sorry, I meant my "friend that I pay".
I collect music reference books.
Quote from: dave from knoxville on July 01, 2008, 06:31:25 PMI collect music reference books.My friend has this book that I think was titled The History of Rock & Roll. I do clearly remember a picture in it of Joey Ramone that was titled "Patti Smith".
Quote from: Hearts of Steele on July 01, 2008, 08:10:57 PMQuote from: dave from knoxville on July 01, 2008, 06:31:25 PMI collect music reference books.My friend has this book that I think was titled The History of Rock & Roll. I do clearly remember a picture in it of Joey Ramone that was titled "Patti Smith".Oh how I would love a scan of this. It's possibly the only thing that would make me replace my Neil Numberman original.
I hate "business" books that take an essay's worth of idea and stretch it into 900 pages. That's what Friedman does. You get as much out of reading a good review of one of those books, as from reading the book itself.They end up just being a string of anecdotes, which Malcolm Gladwell can do entertainingly, but just about no one else can.
I've just about finished Myra Breckenridge by Gore Vidal. I'd never read anything by him before, and had him pigeonholed as a John Cheever-ish observer of upper-middle class life. (I like Cheever, btw.)Holy cow, was I wrong! It's a crazy book. It seems like a natural for an FOT reading list - weird sex, drugs, celebrity obsessions and psychoanalysis. And it's hilarious.Did anyone see the interview with Gore Vidal in the NY Times a few weeks ago? For an 82-year-old, he's still spunky as hell.
As for me, I have been reading the same book for four months due to work and family requirements. But I had too many surrenders in the past year. I refuse to give up!
I hate "business" books that take an essay's worth of idea and stretch it into 900 pages. That's what Friedman does. You get as much out of reading a good review of one of those books, as from reading the book itself.
But when I heard the book was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I would be asked to write the review. The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays.