December 2006 :: Print Reviews
Print Reviews
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The Big Green Issue is out, and from Matthew Moyer's description, if you don't have this you should be a bit verdant with envy for those who do.
Cant You Get Along With Anyone
By the end of this book, James MacLaren is sure of one thing, you must buy it and read it NOW. On the way to that conlusion, however, is a whole minefield of soul searching and human failings. Like the man says, it's complicated.
Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios
At first glance, maybe it seems a little shocking that Clinton Heylin has temporarily abandoned the rock world to write about filmmaker Orson Welles, but after reading this book, Matthew Moyer wonders what took him so bloody long.
INVESTIGATING CSI
Have you ever wondered what it's really like to be a crime scene investigator? Maybe you've wondered what impact a TV show can have on our culture. The essays in Investigating CSI debate these and many more topics. Tune in, but don't forget the duct tape. Bob Pomeroy won't always have that extra roll.
Moon Pie: Biography of an Out-of-This-World Snack
Make me a snack as big as the moon? After reading this new book, Scott Adams knows more about the Moon Pie than any one person has the right to know. Yum yum.
Playing President
Veteran left-wing political journalist Bob Scheer has interviewed every elected U.S. President from Nixon to Clinton, and as his latest book shows, he's done so with fairness and insight. So why hasn't he managed to chat with George W.? Eric J. Iannelli takes a look at Scheer's Playing President.
Rock En Espanol: The Latin Alternative Rock Explosion
Chris Catania, like Rock En Espanol's author, Ernesto Lechner, was slow to warm up to the emerging sounds of the Latin alt-rock movement, but both now agree that the bands profiled in these pages hint strongly at the future of popular music.
Rolling Away: My Agony With Ecstacy
There's not a glowstick or a Dr. Seuss hat to be found for Linda Tate in the pages of this drug addiction memoir. But this is one book that lays it all the bad memories and bad trips on the line without getting too preachy.
Snow Angel: A Novel
Rhona Scoville heartily recommends Michael Graham's wintery police procedural novel as a great way to pass the time during the holiday season. Eggnog and true crime, nothing could be finer.
The ACME Catalog
Whether or not you're trying to dispense with a certain roadrunning thorn in your side, Rob Levy finds much to enjoy in thisvolume. Christmas is just around the corner, after all, and doesn't some special in your life need an Instant Tunnel Painter?
The Jungle
The recent Penguin Classics edition of Upton Sinclair's tale of worker exploitation in the beef industry is both a labor classic and the perfect holiday gift for your slacker cousin, says Carl F Gauze.
Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography & Creative Thinking
Inspirational text, coffee table photography book or master class in Photoshop? Julieanne Kost gives us all three in her new book. Bob Pomeroy comes along for the ride to see what can be done with a digital camera and a kick-ass computer program.
