"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham’s Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [L.Q. cover, quotes, and images from Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2019: CLIMATE, except where noted otherwise.] [Right-click on a photo may give the option to open it separately.] [NEW to Lapham's Quarterly? … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Fall 2019: CLIMATE, pt. 5
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham’s Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [L.Q. cover, quotes, and images from Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2019: Happiness, except where noted otherwise.][Right-click on a photo may give the option to open it separately.] [New to Lapham's Quarterly? See … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Summer 2019: Happiness (fifth and FINAL comments)
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [L.Q. cover, quotes, and images from L.Q. Spring 2018: Rule of Law] [New to Lapham's Quarterly? See the standard notes at the end of this review. After 40+ LQ reviews I … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2018: Rule of Law, review pt. 2 & final
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] [Some of LQ’s contents are available free.] [L.Q. cover and images from L.Q. Winter 2018: States of Mind] [New to Lapham's Quarterly? See the standard notes at the end of this review. After 40+ LQ reviews I jump … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Winter 2018: States of Mind, review pt. 1
[Categories: Literature, Reading, Writing, Fiction, Mystery, Book Review] Wow! This is GOOD! Five stars, bearing in mind I've given everyone from Chester Nez through Jodi Picoult to Ayn Rand the same on their individual merit, not as compared to each other. [Click to zoom.] From an author with whom I wasn't familiar until recently, I was … Continue reading Fast Track by John DeDakis, book review
[CATEGORIES: Literature, Lapham's Quarterly, Reading, Book Review] [Click HERE to see my previous posts reviewing or referencing Lapham's Quarterly.] Money. Isn't that what it's all about? The currency of modern day survival? I would be hard-pressed post-apocalypse to snare, skin, cook, and eat a rabbit but I have money to buy bread. Of course post-apoc the money … Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly Spring 2008: About Money, partial review one
[Categories: Books, Reading, Literature, Photography.] [Click on photos to enlarge. Taken with my new Nikon 35mm f/1.8G AF-S DX Lens. Single icon photos are crops/blowups of cover photos. Photography 101 forever.] Three stars out of five. The trilogy is: The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and Mockingjay. They are a single story told in … Continue reading The Hunger Games Trilogy, Boxed Set – Book Review
Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government by Yaron Brook, Don Watkins This is an excellent book. I approve its message. (It is presidential election season.) The book is a methodical, reasoned analysis of the self-inflicted big government altruism that is bankrupting us. It offers logical steps to reclaim the good of free … Continue reading Yet another book you must read: FREE MARKET REVOLUTION
This is a dynamic, powerful book. It is filled with in-your-face pull-no-punches logic and reason. Oh these Ayn Randians (Bernstein has written and lectured with the Ayn Rand Institute for some time). Do they never stop spouting about individual rights, freedom of choice and rational self-interest? It is a short book, 175 pages in hard cover … Continue reading CAPITALIST SOLUTIONS – A Philosophy of American Moral Dilemmas by Andrew Bernstein
This may be the longest book commentary/review I've ever written, as priceless quotes abound throughout the book and I plan to include many. All are from the 2011 paperback copy. I'm including numerous info links. Use them after your first read of the review or as you go. You choose. Trevanian's SHIBUMI. Originally published in … Continue reading SHIBUMI (understated elegance) (effortless perfection)
This movie, based on Ayn Rand's novel, was both thought provoking and enjoyable. When it ended I thought, darn! I have to wait one year for Part II to be released, and two years for Part III! (If the producers keep on schedule, and I hope they do.) I've read 'Shrugged' a couple of times … Continue reading Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 (the movie)
Atlas Shrugged Movie - Get Involved. Ayn Rand's masterful philosophy novel coming to the big screen? I'll be watching.
See Sarah Run. Stop Sarah Stop. Don't Run, Sarah, Don't Run. Some Republicans urge Palin not to run If I have to I will say it a thousand times between now and 2012. We who dearly and seriously do NOT want to see Obama elected for a second term must NOT allow Sarah Palin to … Continue reading Look Look. See Sarah Palin.
..edited by Robert Mayhew. Why am I reading so much fiction these days? (See my recent blogs.) In order to take a breather from THIS scholarly tome. It's not that I'm suffocating. It's that such in-depth analysis of a such a meticulously hewn, crafted, carved, and sculpted literary work as Atlas Shrugged takes my breath away. … Continue reading Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”
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