Book Review – Page 9 – Failures in Polymathy

Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurty

A truly great Western

I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.

It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.

A DNF. Sometimes it just doesn’t work.

Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.

When I was a kid, I could pick up a book that I had put down, even months later, and

Here is a book with some hard truths that no one wants to hear.

This is an excellent little thriller, that doesn’t seem to fall in the trap of glorifying it’s anti-hero.

A published book of thoughts. Seems courageous to me.

Umberto Eco is my comfort food. I hold him in a kind of ‘do no wrong’ place in my head