Book Burning Service

The old Pentecostal churches I grew up in were wild rides, and had book burning services all the time. Well, I'm not Pentecostal anymore, but I sure enjoy burning through books, metaphorically anyway, to separate the dross from the gold. This is a chronicle of my biblio-incinerations.

Monday, January 30, 2017

Review of Introducing Heidegger

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I liked the cartoony style of the book which kept it semi-interesting, but I ended up deciding Heidegger is hardly worth the effort.  I...
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Sunday, January 15, 2017

Review of On the Road by Kerouac

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I know Jack Kerouac regarded himself as a ‘dumbsaint of the mind,’ but this work felt more dumb than saint. Yes, yes…I’m sure he’s a gen...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Film Review: Swiss Army Man

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Summary: A tale for only the lowest- and highest-brow intellects, Swiss Army Man sticks its dirty finger on the peeled flesh of raw hum...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Review of Ada Limon's "Bright Dead Things"

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I first read Limon’s poem How To Triumph Like a Girl in a magazine called The Sun—a weird little creative writing periodical that ...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Review of Humans of New York

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This is not a coffee table book. It looks like one, but it’s not. It is a masterfully simple summary of modern human experience and the...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Review of Catch-22

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My advice to anyone who wants to glimpse the brilliance of Heller in half the time and twice the concentration: read Vonnegut. Th...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Review of Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl and Her Search For God

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In a sentence: A strong African woman casts off the restraints of a slave’s religion, challenges whitey’s gods, and pushes through to a...
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