Best of Everything Nonfiction 2012
It’s been a busy year for me. I haven’t been able to see as many films as I would have liked. I haven’t been able to read as many books as I would have liked. And it looks like going forward in 2013 I’m going to have even less time as I work on my […]
Argo book vs film
Argo (book) – Written by Tony Mendez and Matt Baglio Rating **** 1/2 Argo (Film) – Written by Chris Terrio, Directed by Ben Affleck Rating **** 1/2 The last book versus film review I did was Moneyball. I liked both but criticised the filmmakers for fabricating parts of the story. The same is true in […]
Fire and Rain: four albums, one great year
Review of Fire And Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970 written by David Browne Rating ***** This book takes you back to 1970 and chronicles events from that year along with the story of four pivotal albums released during this period: James Taylor’s Fire and Rain, […]
Review of Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle
Review of Shipwreck: The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle By Max Morgan Witts and Gordon Thomas Rating ***** I have no restrictions on when a book was first published for it to be covered in this blog. I talk about books that I personally have discovered through one means or another. This is particularly true […]
Review of the Rio/Paris Crash
Review of The Rio/Paris Crash: Air France Flight 447 by Roger Rapoport Rating *** 1/2 Roger Rapoprt does a good job of covering events leading up to the accident and the subsequent search for the missing aircraft, but the book suffers from being rushed to publication before the final accident report was released. Writing a […]
Review of Neptune’s Inferno
Review of Neptune’s Inferno written by James Hornfischer (Audio book version) Rating *** 1/2 I first became interested in this naval encounter after watching the HBO series the Pacific. So when I found myself having to make an eighteen hour cross-country road trip, I thought I’d listen to Neptune’s Inferno on CD. I wasn’t able […]