I recently finished reading Harry Frankfurt’s “On Truth” — a followup to a book with an opposite title that couldn’t be published in the newspaper (the euphemism I used then was “hot air.” But that review is available here.
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Tag / lit
Audio books review “World War Z”
“World War Z,” by Max Brooks. Read by a full cast. Abridged, 6 hours. Random House Audio. $29.95.
Audio books review “Between Georgia”
“Between, Georgia,” by Joshilyn Jackson. Read by the author. Unabridged, 9 hours. Hachette Audio. $31.98.
Richard Ford’s “Lay of the Land”
If you read my review of Ford’s book in Sunday’s Times Union, you know that I started the book with high hopes, and ended in disappointment. That, of course, is just me. Or is it?
Having finished reading the book and writing the review, I allowed myself to read other reviews, and found the disconnect between the NYTimes Michiko Kakutani and A.O. Scott to be quiet interesting.
Kakutani’s review includes these lines:
the lethargic third installment of Frank’s story (it follows “The Sportswriter,” published in 1986, and the 1995 sequel “Independence Day”)
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the book tends to substitute a lot of talk about New Jersey property values and realtor strategies for genuine insights about how people live today.
