Review:I used to really like Dennis Leary. His “No Cure for Cancer” album was something that I listened to a lot, and could recite the routines and sing the songs by heart. I was maybe a little young to be listening to it, so it had this illicit air about it. Leary was unapologetically who he was, and no one could take that from him. I wanted to be just like that!

But that was the 90s. Maybe it was a backlash to the perceived PC movement or something, but what worked for him on that album is car... Read more

Review:The title is an exorcised death knell that every true baseball fan on the planet… knows the origin of. For any other person who pleads ignorance… just go right to the source and ask any Boston Red Sox fan… or for that matter to any true non-Yankee fan… anywhere on the planet (thereby giving you 99 per-cent of the remaining true baseball fans on this module we call Earth)… and ask them.

Though the title and the cleverness of the book is built around the eternal conflict between the Boston ... Read more

Review:A silly yet thought provoking romp, heavy on trendy slang utterances from farm animals. I read it aloud to my terminally ill dog; we shared some good laughs & magical moments. Thanks, DD, more please. Read more

Review:Searched high and low for this book :) my girlfriend had this book as a child and was feeling nostalgic and telling me about it so Id thought id pick one up so she could relive those happy memories :) she loved it and her reaction was So worth the 30 some odd dollars this book cost! Came on time too so thats a hige plus :) Read more

Review:As a piece of literature, for an older reader, 30 years later I can admit it has merit.

The problem is that because it's a "classic", it tends to be on school reading lists. And because the title is "The Red Pony," naturally teachers (or parents, or students themselves) recommend it to readers interested in horses. This happens especially because there are few if any animal books on the standard "great books" lists.

For a student of 16 or 17, this might be fine.

I read it at... Read more

Review:Over a background of symbolism, the story of Narcissus and Goldmund ("mouth of gold") develops: thinking and feeling; abstraction and concretion; ideas and feelings; intellectual and sensual pleasures.
Goldmund is a student at a Medieval monastery where Narcissus is a teacher. Narcissus opens Goldmund's eyes, revealing to him that the life of the convent is not for him, that he must go out to the world and experience it. So does Goldmund: he wanders around Europe for years, seducing countless... Read more

Review:Brilliantly witty and erudite, at home in English and French, knowledgeable in art and literature, Alain de Botton mixes genres to pull out lessons on life and love from Proust's works, while also discussing Chardin and Ruskin and numerous other artists and writers, in addition to discussing Proust's long sentences in a picturesque manner that all really does make us think about our own lives, behavior, and relationships. Read more

Review:I have seen the delightful film adaptation many times and always enjoyed it, so recently while laid up with the flu, I thought I'd read the book and see what Tyler's actual style was like.
I think had I not seen the film, I would have walked away with a very different take on Macon Leary, who I had always perceived as a kind, muted man barely coping with the senseless death of his only child. Perhaps my own mood colored my reading, but Leary seemed unpleasantly selfish, particularly in his... Read more

Review:I really loved this book! It strikes a perfect balance between being extraordinarily funny and providing profound truth about the bizarre motivations, fears, and aspirations of we long distance runners. Read more

Review:If you ever worked at the Post Office, Bukowski described it to a tee. I don't think things have changed there in decades, especially the management's antics. It is comical of the situations the main character is put into by no choice of his own. The portions of the book outside the Post Office are a downhill rollercoaster of a tragic life. I did enjoy the book and would read other of his novels. Read more