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Obsessed with Nanny Ogg inserting herself into a murder investigation by going "Let me through, I'm nosy!"

Love how much this is prefiguring the slop content era of mass media.

Wow didn't think so much of Vidal's life was dictated by bottom shaming but here we are

I've been putting off reading this forever because I knew Bourdain's persona in this was gonna be insufferable, and it is! Still readable tho

I feel like Alvarez is maybe not interesting enough as the sole subject of a book...

My lord is this author ever horny for James Monroe

I thought this would have action in it but it's mostly guys in rooms discussing intrigue that's happening elsewhere, and occasionally mentioning how many kids they have or if they like golf. Nobody has gone like "damn you you ruskie bastards!!!" and shot a guy yet

Every moment of this has been excrutiating.

Ok this evolved into something very different than Butter, and it is reminding me a lot of a type of guy I used to tend to be friends with, before getting estranged from all of them.

Oh no is this really just Butter again h

I was not prepared for how boring this is! Almost entirely made up of meetings about things that are going to happen maybe, with side conversations about hobbies like sports and hunting that the men this book is geared toward are into.

Gibson is such a committed boobs guy, you almost have to respect it.

Extraordinary levels of gender so far. Men in rooms talking about their families between rounds of strategy.

I mean I gotta read at least one Tom Clancy novel in my lifetime.

A character describes the opening of a movie, but doesn't give its title, and I somehow knew it was Miracle Mile even though I haven't even seen Miracle Mile. A subconscious holmesian deduction based on assuming what references William Gibson would be throwing around in the 90s. In case you were curious about the kinds of brain worms I have.

Been chipping away at this forever and I'm gonna need another break. This is actually taking me longer to read than War and Peace because so much of it is tedious legal drama.

Uhhhhh she says "Langston Hughes's play Fences" who fact checked this book!!!!

She really made a good career in theater and television off seeming to be Jewish. Valerie Harper: the original Lea Michelle.

Said she was scared when filming on location in Brazil at night due to "knife-wielding transvestite pickpockets" 🙄

Love how genuinely funny this is.

The Buckminster Fuller biography mentioned when he met Valerie Harper, this mentions when she met Fuller. Full circle!

Valerie Harper claims David Groh was written off Rhoda because Rhoda had lost her comedic edge by being married and the writers wanted to get rid of the husband, but all other accounts say Groh was written off because he wanted to star in a different show. What is the truth???

love how these books have gotten more and more "the author's thinly veiled fetish"

They just used the phrase "that queer feeling of strangeness"

At one point in this the evil guy recommends someone watch his "boxset of the complete works of Yasujiro Ozu", which doesn't and couldn't exist because so many of his movies are lost! Closest would be the criterion eclipse boxsets but even those don't cover much of his work.

Brief mention of Valerie Harper???

i am warming up to bucky's bullshit in his old age but ngl I love this bit where a critic is just like "yeah geodesic domes don't work for reasons that are really obvious to A) experienced architects and B) anyone with any common sense"

He wanted to BOMB THE AMAZON RAINFOREST to make AIRPORTS. this is not a serious person

I appreciate that Nevala-Lee is being evenhanded while deconstructing Fuller's self aggrandizing myths but this frickin dude has been getting on my nerves the whole time. "idea guy" with nothing but bad ideas. designed a car even worse than the cybertruck.

I knew nothing about Fuller going in and I already hate this guy.