Why didn’t I like Modern Times like everyone else? I’m amazed at the kind of praise that has been heaped on it. There are only two songs that stand up for me, that I keep going back to and puzzle over – Workingman’s Blues and Ain’t Talkin’. The rest seem to me stiff, cold, unfinished, empty….
2006 in reading…
I’m trying to remember all the books I read this year. In no particular order, they were:
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
The Sea by John Banville
Everyman by Philip Roth
The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connnelly
Echo Park by Michael Connelly
Memoirs by John McGaharn
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Melville: His World and Work by Andrew Delbanco
Ash and Bone by John Harvey
Filed under Books
Chimes of Freedom 