What is all this “pending” business? I’ve never been to one of these Gizmodo type sites as the layout is so poor. Also, these quotation marks are aggressive.

Spot on, amigo.

I tip my hat to you, sir.

I read Farewell My Lovely & The Long Goodbye a few weeks ago. Apparently the former is more typically Chandler, in the sense of it is episodic and cobbled together from various unrelated stories that he then papered over with names and connective tissue, but I really enjoyed Goodbye because it seemed more cohesive…

What is the name of that von Braun book, if I may ask? I have been browsing around for a good one ever since I read Moonglow.

I'm making my way through Jerusalem myself. I'm only 150 pages in, so…not very far at all. A drip in the bucket and so forth. Here's a Q: does the division of the novel into different "books" or sections make it easy to sort of put it down after each one, smoke a metaphorical cigarette/read a different book and then…

I always thought about Breakfast of Champions as his sort of breezy, fun book. It's just the zany adventures of a man slowly going insane!

I do love “Good Old Neon,” but I’m a “The Soul is Not a Smithy Man” myself. But that is for another time.

In the midst of it right now, actually.

I have just finished Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin, about Lincoln & his cabinet. I was deeply melancholy about the state of the world beforehand - Trump, etc. - and it was somewhat encouraging to read about a time when a genuinely good leader and person held high office. It turns out Lincoln's story has a…

I thought parts of it were really funny. The whole section about his daughter - well, perhaps you aren't supposed to be amused, but it tickled me. He is just so malicious. i've read the book three times and will do again.

Inherent Vice - a really outstanding book that gets treated as throwaway for the crime of not being Gravity's Rainbow. Alright, listen: I've read Gravity's Rainbow, and by "read" I mean my eyes moved along the pages and registered letters and words and even sentences, but i had no motherless clue what in the holy…