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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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(2.9) I’ve read many books that were obviously stretching a long form article into book size. The author’s a sportswriter who seems to have gotten the idea he could transmogrify the NBA’s Thunder’s unlikely rise with the history of Oklahoma City. He s ...more |
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Suffused with Cormac McCarthy, Flesh has the dry flat affect of so many of his works… How this won the Booker Prize is a mystery…the two most dramatic moments are skipped over and the character is so remote from most of his life it’s hard to believe h ...more |
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Suffused with Cormac McCarthy, Flesh has the dry flat affect of so many of his works… How this won the Booker Prize is a mystery…the two most dramatic moments are skipped over and the character is so remote from most of his life it’s hard to believe h ...more |
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(3.7) the book starts like I knew it would…the present day tease…the yakuza…the threats…the noir…”a hero is just someone who’s run out of options” Then it flashbacks to a young Jewish American from Missouri, whose schooled in Japan and decides to grab ...more |
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A book whose rating has see-sawed more than any other. Does it have brilliance and bravissimo coupled with indulgence and logorrhea - Yes. Wallace does what writers like Mailer and Elroy have done by showing other writers a new way to write. Essential ...more |
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(2.5) It’s Ezra Klein’s Abundance 2.0 The author is a progressive who laments the Jeffersonian impulse of bottom up control has created too many roadblocks and deadlocks to govt action… He’s right, but his underlying assumption that progressives are p ...more |
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(3.9) So a long time reader of Chernow’s and Twain doesn’t disappoint…I realize a simply trick he uses is he makes a statement, and then adds ominously, “and this would be his undoing” or some such…it’s a simple plot device to keep the reader turning ...more |
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(2.2) my long march continues…only three to go… Shadows is fine…like most of the Warcraft books they’re long on talking and short on action: action that usually comes in the last 25 pages. It’s striking how Christian Warcraft has become in these last f ...more |
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(3.9) some opine that this is a truly wondrous book. I think it has moments that are of high excellence. I have problems with the character or what the author has decided to write about the character…after all this is serious literature so it must be ...more |
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Obviously they're going to be a lot less limited in publication than fiction, and I hardly have to explain why. I just don't quite understand why no decent results come back when I Google "top nonfiction picks published in 2025"... before 2024, I'd always find at least a few I was interested in each month, but ever since then, not so much. Is it just me? If it is, throw some suggestions my way? I'd greatly appreciate it if you know of any.