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Revolutionary Road
by lz in Reading Archive on 27Apr2008
I finally re-read some Richard Yates after years away. Frank and April Wheeler, in their suburban hell, grinning and leering at each other as something above their neighbors, planning to escape to Europe with the 2 kids so Frank could find himself, then pregnancy rears its head again ("You've been...
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Still Life
by lz in Reading Archive on 23Apr2008
It had a promising start- the murder victim ID'd in the opening sentence. Then, in poured the adjectives, describing everyone's clothes and personality and accents in painstaking, overwhelming detail. It became something shy of beach reading, lost some of its intellectual shimmer. In the end, seems like just the kind...
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The Apprentice
by lz in Reading Archive on 13Apr2008
Jacques Pepin's charmed cooking life, in written form, poorly edited. As in, typos sprinkled throughout the pages. My inner editor wouldn't let that go. Besides that, a sweet story of his upbringing in the kitchen, from apprenticing out at age 13, through many French kitchens, Parisian kitchens, and escaping to...
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Maximum City
by lz in Reading Archive on 04Apr2008
A terribly boring book about India, I'm afraid. Some parts are engaging, like the story of how this ex-pat comes home to India after 20 years, brings his family, gets settled in and learns how to deal with the country that says "No" instead of America. Once he veered off...
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It started out as such a promising book, but I ended up disappointed by the shoddy overall impression; the mixup over how long the Iraq war had been going on, poor date editing, etc. Basic premise is that an obesity researcher applies economic models to the fat epidemic, we're getting...
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