A brief note on my 23rd book for the year, a collection of essays from John Brooks entitled Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street. Brooks, who wrote for The New Yorker among other publications, delves into some of the big business stories of the 1960s in these well written reflections… Continue reading Business Adventures
When was the last time you read a comic book – or any book for that matter – that left you feeling better about your life and the world? When have you read something that wasn’t just beautifully illustrated and grippingly told but that also brightened your outlook? My 22nd read of 2016 did just… Continue reading Low volume 1: The Delirium of Hope
My 21st read for 2016 was another graphic novel, this time from Marvel’s Max line. The book focuses on a character well known in both the comic book and cinematic universes: Nick Fury. However this story presents a slightly different view in a slightly different ‘universe;’ here there is no SHIELD (Fury works with the… Continue reading Fury: My War Gone By
I finished my 20th book this weekend: the audio version of JRR Tolkien’s The Return of the King. This book wraps up the Lord of the Rings trilogy and concludes the wider tale begun in The Hobbit. I have read all these books a few times a listened to the audio books three times as… Continue reading The Return of the King
Massive. Sprawling. Elaborate. At times hilarious, at times insightful, at times hard to put down, and at times almost impossible to follow. Moving in its depiction of human relationships and personal struggles, prescient in its portrayal of an American society amusing itself to death under the hapless eye of a befuddled former media star turned… Continue reading Infinite Jest
You’ve likely heard many of the jokes before. There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can’t. Or there are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t. Or maybe even there are two kinds of people in the world:… Continue reading People > Process > Product
