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I doubt I will ever finish this-- it was more annoying than interesting

Sadly, there will be a slight delay in finishing while I wait to get the library book back.

This was more of an angry old man screed than an essay on the nature of language, but whatever.

In my defense, Amazon offered me this book for free.

Really interesting take on a complicated individual, with a lot more comparison of contemporary reports and evaluation of motives to try and sort out the truth from spin. Unfortunately, at page 430 (around Lincoln's assassination), the library copy expired... I'm back on the library's waiting list, but really looking forward to finish this one.

I'm not so much reading this as carrying it with me back and forth to work. It's a weird mix of buffoonery and philosophy.

This is a hard read. He's probably the best writer I've ever read, but these stories are so exquisitely, painfully full of true regret that I read one and then have to read something else less challenging before I'm ready to face him again.