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Cover of "The Consolations of Philosophy"
Cover of "The Nine"

    • It may be worth reading for the handful of anecdotes about the Justices, but maybe not. Toobin's writing style is not very fresh. Also, the psychology is simple, and his legal and political analysis is not very interesting. I was expecting more than a Democrat's psychology-injected play-by-play of d ... Continue

      It may be worth reading for the handful of anecdotes about the Justices, but maybe not. Toobin's writing style is not very fresh. Also, the psychology is simple, and his legal and political analysis is not very interesting. I was expecting more than a Democrat's psychology-injected play-by-play of decisions about abortion and school prayer. Yawn.

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  • ― Posted on Feb 28, 2008
Cover of "The Rest Is Noise"
Cover of "Heat"

    • I like the personalities, the food wisdom, perspective, and humor. Not so great were the passages where Buford tries to write scholarly history. It's 30% too long, but I recommend it.

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  • ― Posted on Feb 28, 2008
Cover of "Musicophilia"
Cover of "Status Anxiety"
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    • I like the author's chatty but erudite style. The chapters on Christian and Bohemian solutions to status anxiety are especially enlightening. Sprinkled throughout the book are some really great quotations from philosophers and aphorists. I'm going to read more of his stuff.

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  • ― Posted on Feb 28, 2008
Cover of "The Old Way"
Cover of "The Swimming-pool Library"
Cover of "History and Illusion in Politics"

    • I like these Nietzschean genealogies of influencial ideas---liberalism in this case. It's pleasantly upsetting to consider the contingency and incoherence of the projects to which we're most committed. (Beware the sections that are heavy on analytic word-chopping, though.)

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  • ― Posted on Feb 28, 2008
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