Adventure, or desperation? Maybe they're two sides of the same coin.

Geez, I can't be the only one who owns all of Big Stars albums and who just doesn't get the adulation. Enjoyable? Sure. Great? Not for me.

I'm a white guy, so I can't speak for the black community's awareness of white artists in the 60s, but one of the great things about the music scene in the 60s is that people (the people I knew, anyway) were listening to everything….there was a wonderful eclecticism and openness to all sorts of sounds. (Country music…

Everybody's focusing on Reacher's size and muscles, but what really distinguishes him, imo, is his raggedness. He's a marginal figure in every way. How he stops a bullet with his one of his pecs is a mystery to me (I haven't read that book, or don't remember that scene) because (unlike Spenser) he seems to have no…

Everybody's focusing on Reacher's size and muscles, but what really distinguishes him, imo, is his raggedness. He's a marginal figure in every way. How he stops a bullet with his one of his pecs is a mystery to me (I haven't read that book, or don't remember that scene) because (unlike Spenser) he seems to have no…

You remind me of another random Reacher novel beginning: Reacher's riding on a bus that skids off the road in a snow storm, stranding him in a midwestern town where there's masssive skullduggery goin' on.

You remind me of another random Reacher novel beginning: Reacher's riding on a bus that skids off the road in a snow storm, stranding him in a midwestern town where there's masssive skullduggery goin' on.

I'd guess "Reacher said nothing" turns up a dozen times a book.

I'd guess "Reacher said nothing" turns up a dozen times a book.

@Hoosiers Waitress I find the beginnings of Child's books — most of them I've listened to — even harder to believe. Child just throws Reacher into situations at random. In one book he's sitting in a mostly-empty subway car late at night and happens to spot a woman who's wired to the gills with explosives. In another…

@Hoosiers Waitress I find the beginnings of Child's books — most of them I've listened to — even harder to believe. Child just throws Reacher into situations at random. In one book he's sitting in a mostly-empty subway car late at night and happens to spot a woman who's wired to the gills with explosives. In another…

I'm with Green Arrow. The Reacher books are entertainment when you don't feel like thinking too much. The audio versions helped me survive  my weekly drives on the New Jersey turnpike.

I'm with Green Arrow. The Reacher books are entertainment when you don't feel like thinking too much. The audio versions helped me survive  my weekly drives on the New Jersey turnpike.

This is actually a reply to Unregistered4Life below: There are a few humanizing characteristics to Reacher in the books
that the movie apparently omits, presumably because they don't fit
Cruise's persona. His physical bulk has been mentioned; there's also his
total lack of social graces— he doesn't give a shit about…

This is actually a reply to Unregistered4Life below: There are a few humanizing characteristics to Reacher in the books
that the movie apparently omits, presumably because they don't fit
Cruise's persona. His physical bulk has been mentioned; there's also his
total lack of social graces— he doesn't give a shit about…

@Hypnomatic. When you say every country has anti-intellectualism, you seem unaware, as an Australian, of the prominence that particular predilection has played in American history. Maybe there are traces of anti-intellectualism everywhere, as you say, but I doubt you'll see the huge doses of it in, say, France or…

@Hypnomatic. When you say every country has anti-intellectualism, you seem unaware, as an Australian, of the prominence that particular predilection has played in American history. Maybe there are traces of anti-intellectualism everywhere, as you say, but I doubt you'll see the huge doses of it in, say, France or…

Hypnomatic: Call me when you wake up. You seem unaware that we're commenting here about a book entitled "The End of Men." It was published this year. Yea, I know, it's an inflammatory title — that's not really where the book itself is coming from. So it's said, but I've read enough of Rosin's articles to doubt that…

Hypnomatic: Call me when you wake up. You seem unaware that we're commenting here about a book entitled "The End of Men." It was published this year. Yea, I know, it's an inflammatory title — that's not really where the book itself is coming from. So it's said, but I've read enough of Rosin's articles to doubt that…

Darling of the City Fathers: Call me when you wake up.