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madisonsearle recommended this 9 months, 3 weeks ago
The best album from a great and often overlooked group. This album was certainly overlooked when it was released in 1968. It's an affectionate look backward at a vanishing culture, and it came out at the worst possible time, when psychedelic rock was in the Seventh House. Great songs, no filler.
madisonsearle recommended this 9 months, 3 weeks ago
I'm only a middling fan of musical theater, but I loved this book and its sequel. Sondheim's sharp and honest and taught me a lot. Favorite bits: his short essays on other songwriters. He only writes about them if they're dead, but if they are, look out.
madisonsearle recommended this 9 months, 3 weeks ago
My favorite sportswriter in the U.S. is Joe Posnanski. Smart, humane, funny & sane. His blog is great reading, especially when he writes about his first love, baseball.
madisonsearle recommended this 9 months, 4 weeks ago
One of the finest and most enjoyable novels I've read in the past 20 years. What a writer!
madisonsearle recommended this 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Fine, readable, and alarming critique of how personalization of the web is shrinking our world and driving us apart.
madisonsearle recommended this 9 months, 4 weeks ago
It was a terrific movie, but as usual, the book was better. One of Wolfe's best.
madisonsearle recommended this 10 months ago
A beautifully written, directed, and performed movie of an adult brother and sister united by an early tragedy who deal with it in very different ways. A great American movie.
madisonsearle recommended this 10 months ago
Well-written, eye-opening examination of why we make certain kinds of mistakes and our tendency to justify them when we do. Great reading for a college freshman-level critical thinking course.
madisonsearle recommended this 10 months ago
A sharp, literate, and extremely well-written consideration of mistakes: how and why we make them, how we act after we err, and what making mistakes means for both individuals and human culture. It's serious, funny, and ultimately uplifting.
madisonsearle recommended this 10 months ago
A very well-told biography of a truly extraordinary man--one who combined great accomplishment and energy with humility and moral purpose.