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I’ve kept this copy since junior high and I’m sure I haven’t read it since seventh or eighth grade when I had to read it as part of my education. I’ve kept it for what? 22, 23 years without reading it again, just riding on the

dracunculus [http://dracunculus.livejournal.com] would enjoy JFK’s account of Thomas Hart Benton’s reply to an inquiry whether he had known Andrew Jackson. Benton said, “Yes, sir, I knew him, sir; General Jackson was a very great man, sir. I shot him, sir. Afterward he was of great

I’m undecided on whether I’ll see the movie. I enjoyed Swofford’s memoirs so much that I’d hate to have them spoiled for me by Hollywood. Swofford is articulate and direct, a rare and good combination. He has an easy, relaxed writing style that invites the reader

It’s November and I’m only halfway through my goal of fifty books for the year, so yes, I’m looking at the slimmest volumes on the shelf. I tore through this last night before bed and this morning before breakfast. I’m left with bitter feelings about it

Whenever I read Orwell, I have hope. For this reason I consider him to be, if there can be any such thing, the best English writer to ever have published. In these essays, he never lets me forget. Where is his clarity–both stylistic and moral–in today’s world?

I picked this to pad my total. I didn’t think I’d like it much, and I was right. The Logan books are pulp at their corniest. It’s kind of sad that Nolan got so desperate for story ideas that he resorted to an “trapped on an alternate

http://home3.inet.tele.dk/stadil/spe_kc.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20070515140633/http://home3.inet.tele.dk:80/stadil/spe_kc.htm] Bill Watterson has just broken my back and shown me the bars to my cage, the edge of the matrix. OK, those words are actually