I picked this up because I absolutely loved Gurwitch’s book Fired; for a couple bucks at the library, that and a general regard for the former Dinner and a Movie hostess was enough to part me with my cash. There was a lot of good will going into the purchase. And this wasn’t bad, per se – I got my money’s worth at least, and Gurwitch has an amiable tone with some interesting stories – I’m just not sure there was enough to sustain a […]
No, you get off MY lawn
Man did I dislike this book. Based on the jacket and the title I was expecting a treatise on the nature of content as driven by the state of each method of delivery – TV in the era of even faster communication. I wanted an actual exploration of the one and only thing most of us know about Marshall McLuhan – the medium is the message now that media has changed so much – but instead I got a bunch of inside baseball from someone […]
Under Construction
This is my year to chip away at the stack of unread books and get down to zero before buying new ones, despite my having had this exact same goal the last two CBRs and privately even before that. So what do I do? Read an entire book at the library to get around that whole “buying new ones” restriction. I feel like I put myself on a liquid diet to lose weight then started chugging condensed milk. Anyway, I picked this up because apparently […]
Well, I WAS With You
I made it rain at the friends of the library book sale just prior to my annual promise not to buy more books until I read everything in my unread stack (almost always 50 books no matter what I do), and like any good binge it was all impulse. I love personal challenge essays (see above – although I will never ever succeed in diminishing that unread stack, my novels apparently breed in captivity) and for two bucks, how bad could this be? (How many […]