I’m a big fan of CW’s The Flash. If I’m being honest it’s the TV show I most look forward to watching week-to-week, and the show whose return I’m most eagerly anticipating. The end of last season ended with a game changing moment that seemed poised to shake up the show’s entire universe. I had learned enough about the world of Flash comics to know that they were probably going to incorporate the events of Flashpoint into season 3, so I decided I should read […]
The Man Without a Story
I keep trying with comic books and I think I may stop soon. (Although I have another review of one coming right up.) Something about the medium doesn’t work for me. I wanted to try a Daredevil comic because I really enjoyed the Netflix series. After looking into it, the Frank Miller run seemed like a good place to start. The problem with this volume is that it is only a start. Across the issues collected here, the only thing that really happens is the […]
Print the Legend
“When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” -The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Written forty years afterward, David Halberstam’s warm look back at the Yankees-Red Sox pennant race of 1949 is not for the sabrmetrically inclined. With its unchecked assertions and reliance on anecdotes, there are many parts of Halberstam’s narrative that are unlikely to survive statistical scrutiny. Can it really be true that Joe DiMaggio was never thrown out going from first to third once in his long career? Or that Boston’s Johnny […]
Trailing a Killer
For most of its length, Robert Graysmith’s account of the hunt for Northern California’s most famous serial killer is a rather dry recitation of facts, a play by play of discovered corpses and police investigations. But near the end it turns into something more interesting, as Graysmith starts to involve himself more personally in the investigation, fitting himself into the crevices between the various local, state, and federal investigators, serving as a go-between and discovering new leads on his own. Graysmith found himself in this […]
The Man Who Fixed the World Series
If you’re not familiar with the name Arnold Rothstein, you might be aware of the fictional portrayals which have outlived him. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduced him into The Great Gatsby as Meyer Wolfsheim, the carnivorous gambler who unnerves Nick Carraway. Damon Runyon, on the other hand, humanized Rothstein as the put-upon man about town Nathan Detroit in the stories that would eventually become Guys and Dolls. As those wildly divergent interpretations might lead you to guess, Rothstein was a slippery persona, hard to know and […]
What in the world did I just read?
Is there anything quite as bad as a bad book? I have one big flaw as a book reviewer, I am terrible at reading bad books. When I’m not enjoying a book it is torturous. Such was unfortunately the case with John Irving’s newest novel. Having read about a dozen of Irving’s novels, I’ve long been a fan of his wit and imagination, the intricacy of his plotting, and his ability to keep the reader’s attention. None of those are on display in Avenue of […]
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