If anyone can list more memoirs where the author puts their own story into a larger context, please post. I really like them.

Most recently of the soon-to-be-cancelled Katie success story.

My grandpa like him. I think a lot of people's grandpas do.

"legal sex with minors"

He's truly the Henry VIII of our time.

@avclub-84ca205fe6bc691c41c3bfe5a2820a15:disqus Haha I read it about forty thousand times too. I actually bought a new copy a few years back, because besides being in not great shape, it was covered in highlights and I had written all these stupid things on it. It was embarrassing.

Have you ever read Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld? I liked it a lot, but couldn't get through American Wife.

Hendrix was part Cherokee. Probably more than Depp.

Remember when Michelle William posed for a pic where she had been done-up to look like a Native America and there was a scandal over it? Why is there no scandal over Depp doing the same thing for an entire movie?

Then I have a recommendation for you! Read Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia by Marya Hornbacher. The contrast of Hornbacher's own very personal story with the larger sociological context she was able to view it in makes for a very powerful book.

Ya'll need to get over caring what people think about you. Books are better than people anyway.

I liked it, but Cosmopolis is one of DeLillo's lesser works. Read White Noise.

I know what you mean. I have over 300 books on my Kindle and have only read about half.

Even though it's not a great movie, Trevor St. John is very good in a small part in Higher Learning.

Semi-SPOILER-y

Is The Better Angels of Our Nature any good? All the women in my gun club seem to have read it but me.

I have a Kindle Fire. I previously had a Kindle 2. I chose the first one due to the wide range of available books for it. I imagine that is true of most/all e-readers now. I loved it though.

I recently read Strange Piece of Paradise by Teri Jenz. It's a memoir about how the author and a friend were attacked with an axe and run over while camping on a bicycle trip after their sophomore year of college. Though the crime was "unsolved," years later she went back to the place where it happened and learned…

The death in this episode upset me more than any other because I (like I think every woman) has been a victim of street harassment and it really is THAT terrifying.

@hoorayforcaptainspauding:disqus I had that thought too. I've also wondered if maybe he did it to get in Pete's head. Which he totally did.